Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It has historically been played for the most part in Canada and the United States, with small but dedicated lacrosse communities in the United Kingdom and Australia. Recently, however, lacrosse has begun to flourish at the international level, with teams being established around the world, particularly in Europe and east Asia.

Busy readers can save themselves the trouble of reading to the end of this article to find out the verdict: the Big Bang Referee 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia is a winner. The Nyon-based watchmaker, usually so quick off the mark where technical challenges are concerned, opted this time to wait a while before launching its first smartwatch. TAG Heuer and Bulgari – both from the same LVMH stable – brought out theirs some time ago, along with a good proportion of the rest of the watch industry, including pioneer Frédérique Constant.

On Saturday at 3pm, the 2018 Roland Garros champion, Rafael Nadal, was on the track to officially start the race. 24 hours later, the Toyota # 8 crossed the finish line two laps ahead of the other teams. Winners of the 86th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Fernando Alonso and Sébastien Buemi, partners of Richard Mille, gave Toyota their first win in 19 starts.

HALO, the fourth art commission by Audemars Piguet, which was presented at Art Basel this year, is an ambitious work that presents complex data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in the form of an electro-acoustic instrument. The project brought together Audemars Piguet, whose art commissions seek to explore the themes of complexity and precision that are inherent to the world of watchmaking, CERN, whose particle accelerators straddle the border between Switzerland and France on the outskirts of Geneva (and which, it may surprise you to learn, has its own Art Department) and Semiconductor, the British duo of Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, who specialize in rendering complex scientific phenomena accessible as works of art.