As part of Madison Avenue Watch week Jaeger-LeCoultre invites you to its New York boutique to see stunning photography as you investigate its fine timepieces. Jaeger-LeCoultre is hosting A Journey Through World Heritage Site: Glacier Bay National Park (USA), a photography exhibition by award-winning photographer Mark Kelley at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Boutique through April 25.
The Le Sentier, Switzerland-based watch company and UNESCO have been working together since 2008 to protect the forty-seven marine sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The partnership has helped double the marine areas protected by the World Heritage Convention and to establish a substantial network of marine site managers and scientists who pool their efforts and good practices to preserve the sites.
This year, the partnership’s spotlight is on Glacier Bay National Park, first designed as a U.S. National Monument in 1925 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1992. Kelley’s photographs will inspire viewers to reflect on some of the last glaciers, ice fields and fjords at the site and to also enjoy the natural beauty of the animal life in the region. Glacier Bay is home to many marine mammals such as porpoises, seals, sea lions, and several species of whales, as well as sea otters whose valuable fur almost caused their extinction several centuries ago.
Visitors can see the exhibit all week at the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique, 701 Madison Avenue near 62nd Street, open from 10 am to 6 pm.