Style
The art of restoration
Luxury watch restorers have moved into creating their own high-end models
How to buy pre-owned watches
The timepiece market is booming… here’s how to find a bargain that will hold its value
This car will accelerate your social advancement
The Range Rover Sport manoeuvres with the grace of a gazelle
What went wrong with the Brooks Brothers shirt?
The classic button-down is no more – unless you know where to look
The Wish List
Above: 1 Shard gold and garnet cuff, £7,500, Annoushka, 2 D’amour diamond bracelet, from £27,000, Cartier, 3 Paloma Picasso Olive…
Property: town mouse or country house?
What you could buy in London – and elsewhere for the same price
The best of Notting Hill – now in Shepherd’s Bush
It isn’t just Westfield that has transformed W12
Interview: Paddington Bear on immigration and buns
From deepest darkest Peru to Elstree Studios: Olivia Cole talks to Paddington Bear
Snobbery with violence
The ginger-haired man in the three-piece suit had been standing at the bar all night, ordering gin and tonics in a proprietorial…
From Fettes with love
Ian Fleming went to Eton in the autumn of 1921 and left, aged 17, in 1926 for a crammer in…
Screen princess
Sarah Gadon has been in no fewer than three David Cronenberg films. She was cast in A Dangerous Method, his…
To write a bestseller I had to become a woman
It’s remarkable the efforts some authors will make in order to achieve literary fame. Take the American writer James Frey.…
Glass distinction
Was it the Russians? The Saudis? Or Elton John, who once received a florist’s bill for £293,000? Someone’s to blame…
Wings of desire
When Lewis Carroll created Alice’s wonderland, he sent his diminutive heroine down rabbit holes and through looking glasses and in…
Turn on, tune in, cash out
I’m what you call a Sixties person. I still believe in sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll, and radical…
The Wish List
Above. Clockwise from left: Sea urchin spine necklace, £525, Patrick Mavros; Daisy Tryst ring, £21,500, Theo Fennell; Chrysoprase Amulette de Cartier,…
Seeing the light
‘Everything is going to be alright’. Walking my children to nursery along east London’s then ungentrified Lower Clapton Road, I…
Future Shop
Believe it or not, the concept of the future is a recent phenomenon. Sure, the past offers up one or…