What makes him tick

1. When you are away a lot travelling with work, you need a reliable way of waking you up. I bought this portable alarm clock from the Hermès shop in Harrods for my wife Bettina years ago, but appropr

PEOPLE USED TO COMPLAIN THAT cars all looked the same. Now, though, with an endless array of retrofuturistic coupes and LED emblazoned crossovers, if you think cars are all copy/paste, you’re not look

A CERTAIN WELL-KNOWN online auction site (other well-known auction sites are available) can feel a little like the horological equivalent of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. So many appealing little faces,

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

I’m just back from a motorcycle ride: eight days, 2000 miles from Copenhagen to Norway’s North Cape, the place they call ‘the end of the world’, inset, below. The Arctic Rally was the latest adventure

IF you constantly flit between town and country, ...