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  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
    Why brown watches are all the beige

    How an outlier trend went mainstream

    A collection of brown-dial watches
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
    Harry Styles was right about oversized collars

    The spearpoint is back — and it’s bigger than ever 

    Prada mohair jacket with detachable mohair and cotton collar, £3,100, and cotton poplin shirt, £1,070. Margaret Howell wool check tie, £150
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    HTSI
    Big watches are shrinking

    Are you ready to embrace the smaller trend?

    Vacheron Constantin rose-gold 34.5mm Overseas Selfwinding, £49,700
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    Style
    The pitch-perfect in-flight costumes of ‘Hijack’

    Subtle colour coding, the hero’s layered look and, mercifully, no sweatpants lend a sly glamour to the Idris Elba thriller

  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    HTSIWhat to pack for every kind of summer holiday
    What to pack for a jaunt to Marbella

    Contributing editor Nick Foulkes cruises into the Costa del Sol with a linen Teba jacket, Cuban-inspired shirt and waterproof cigar case

    The Marbella Club’s jetty
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Watches & Jewellery
    How Rolex status symbols help fund new artists

    The watchmaker’s finances remain opaque — in contrast to its high-profile support for everything from science to arts mentoring

    Gala Ceremony, The 20th anniversary of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    HTSI
    Cartier’s London Crash slams back into town

    The “Salvador Dalí” watch is back. Now join the meltdown

    A c1980 design for a Crash wristwatch from the Cartier London Archives
  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    The Aesthete
    Princess Ira von Fürstenberg talks taste

    The objet designer and former actress on Gloria Guinness, Coke Zero and her Louis XVI writing desk

    Von Fürstenberg beside her desk in her Madrid home
  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    HTSIHTSI spring travel special
    The best diver’s watches (even if you don’t dive)

    Go deep or go home this summer

    Three of Seiko’s new Prospex Diver Scuba Padi special edition watches
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    HTSI
    The big new trends from Watches and Wonders 2023

    Major launches, headline innovations and hero pieces at this week’s horlogerie jamboree in Geneva

    Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 36, POA
  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    HTSI
    At LVMH, the legendary Gérald Genta brand is born again

    The watchmaker’s widow and the 24-year-old luxury scion Jean Arnault on relaunching one of the world’s most covetable marques

    Evelyne Genta and Jean Arnault and  at the Monégasque embassy in London
  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    HTSI
    Meet the watch influencers

    Haute horlogerie was slow to embrace social media. Then the tick-tockers stepped in

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    HTSI
    Inside the world of the fantasy form watch

    The market is going wild for these miniature wonders

    Musical perfume-flask amphora, c1805, attributed to Piguet & Capt, sold at Christie’s for HK$12.25mn (about £1.29mn)
  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    HTSIHTSI spring menswear special
    Real men wear massive checks

    When it comes to tailoring, nothing squares up to a big repeat

    Austin Butler in 2022
  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    HTSI
    The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit lives on

    In 1956, Gregory Peck made a grey suit famous as he wrestled with existential angst. Decades later, his son is reviving it

    Gregory Peck in the passenger seat of a car driven by a female character in the 1956 film The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    HTSI
    The big watch trends of 2023

    At LVMH Watch Week we get a glimpse of what’s to come…

  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    HTSI
    Inside the £33,000 humidor

    We get the first smoke of a rare Ramón Allones cigar collection

    Cohiba limited editions double Coronas
  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    HTSI
    Seiko’s lovable scooter watch

    The Japanese horologist maker is paying homage to the nicest wheels in town

  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI holiday gift guide 2022
    16 seasonal buys for dapper guys

    Sartorial stocking fillers, suggested by Nick Foulkes

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    HTSI
    At home with the Santa Claus of time

    A colossus of independent watchmaking, Kari Voutilainen has travelled a long way from Lapland to Switzerland

    Voutilainen at his workshop in St Sulpice
  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    HTSI
    The original tick tock — the loudest trend in watchmaking 

    Nothing says über-watch like a mechanism that audibly chimes the time

  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
    HTSI
    This man can find your dream watch

    Who do you turn to when you’re after the rarest of rare timepieces? The professors of time

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    HTSI
    Cartier makes waves with its golden ‘Pebble’

    A once-forgotten design-classic watch returns

  • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
    HTSI
    The roar power of leopard print 

    This savage motif will never lose its kitsch but macho allure

    Jil Sander by Lucie and Luke Meier wool and mohair coat, £3,360. AMI wool sleeveless sweater, £265. Agnès B viscose-mix jacket, £395, and trousers, £205. John Lobb leather shoes, £1,075
  • Friday, 30 September, 2022
    HTSI
    Want a piece of Paris’s longest-running party?

    The sale of the contents of the capital’s Hôtel Lambert opens a window onto a world of untrammelled decadence

    Hôtel Lambert’s Grand Salon at night
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