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Style and Travel

Summer time

Nick Foulkes

Wednesday, 27th June 2007

I am always ready to be mentored by older, wiser men, and on the important subject of the holiday watch my mind always returns to a piece of very useful advice given to me by Sir Dai Llewellyn Bt — a man who appears to inhabit his very own Sybaris and has lived a happy and largely blameless life enjoying himself and cheering the lives of many others in the process. I remember him once telling me that he never ventured on to the beach without a pair of Ray-Bans and a Rolex, which was pretty much infallible advice when he gave it to me almost 20 years ago and remains oracular to this day ...to judge from the revival of the Ray-Ban Wayfarer (videlicet Jude Law in Cannes) and the £100,000 recently achieved by a Rolex (ref. 8171 moonphase from the 1950s, if you are interested) at a recent New York watch auction held by Bonhams.

Actually, that particular watch is not such a good choice for the beach as it is not water resistant, so if you are cursing your bad luck on having missed out on such a bargain, at least you can console yourself with the reassuring knowledge that its owner won’t be wearing it out on the boat this summer.

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