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These 24 top watches are sure to be envied on your wrist in 2024
From Bulgari to Bremont, Patek Philippe to Panerai and Girard-Perregaux to Grand Seiko: what would you like to wrap around your arm next year?
- Bani McSpedden
Why billionaire David Marriott goes strictly off grid for holidays
Three travel industry families reveal where they’re planning to get away from it all next year and what’s in store for their global businesses.
- Fiona Carruthers
- Opinion
- Champagne & sparkling wine
Champagne or sparkling: Max Allen’s taste test results revealed
Our expert takes a bunch of champagnes and a bunch of top Australian sparkling wines, pops the corks and puts them to a blind taste test.
- Max Allen
‘People thought I was crazy’: how to spend eight weeks in Nepal
A longer trip around the south Asian nation drops you into a gentler rhythm of daily life. But it’s still hard to resist some hiking.
- Jason Mowen
- Jill Dupleix
- Recipes
Josh Niland’s eight-course Christmas feast recipes
Restaurateurs Josh and Julie Niland have prepared a Christmas menu centred on the ocean and vegetable patch, with a twist on a traditional sweet favourite.
- Jill Dupleix
This Month
Surprise stars shine at the ‘Oscars of watchmaking’
Among the winners of the annual Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève were a few rank-and-file brands, a welcome mix for the general public.
- Bani McSpedden
The 13 names behind Britain’s great watch revival
Switzerland’s watch industry has taken the art of self-promotion to an impressive level, but there’s action a plenty in the “home” of horology.
- Simon de Burton
The year’s top 20 reads as chosen by the newsroom team
From cookbooks and design tomes to literary page-turners to savour, with subjects that include living longer, garden design and a fallen crypto king.
- Staff writers
How a Sydney real estate guru created a $200m foodie mecca
Former Belle Property head Chris Meehan is turning one of New Zealand’s oldest sheep farms into a food and wine hub with five venues – and more to come.
- Larry Schlesinger
This M&A lawyer does deals by day – and Christmas lights by night
To calm nerves during negotiations, Tony Damian talks about his surprising hobby – Christmas lights. In December, you can see his house from a plane.
- Lisa Murray
‘The watch of your dreams’: What’s next for Vacheron Constantin
The brand’s style and heritage director, Christian Selmoni, explains why it strives to maintain its sophisticated identity.
- Bani McSpedden
Yours for as little as $9k: watch brands save best for last in 2023
From exciting updates to cool artist collaborations, luxury watchmakers including Amin Strom, Blancpain and IWC continue to impress right up to the end of the year.
- Bani McSpedden
Soho House is coming: here’s the type of member they have in mind
Markus Anderson is a master connector with friends in high places and is helping to bring the elite members-only club for creatives to Australia.
- Matthew Drummond
The watch dynasty primed for the billion-dollar club
Richard Mille is set for a new era in the hands of the next generation, and you can expect the impact to reach our shores.
- Bani McSpedden
November
What this $5 mouse trap can teach you about great design
Former retailer and master curator Remo Giuffré finds fascination in the everyday and has found a way to share this “uncommon knowledge”.
- Stephen Todd
Collectors drive up pre-owned luxury watch prices - and big brands want in
Maybe not in time for Christmas, but the one-stop shop for watches, both new and used, is coming.
- Bani McSpedden
- Opinion
- Style
The one retail sector where soaring prices won’t stop people buying
Rare, precious and oh so expensive. Even as luxury prices continue to rise, consumers keep opening their wallets. Here’s why.
- Lauren Sams
Introducing the ‘plastic fantastic’ Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
Forty years on and Swatch is still spreading the magic – with a little help from the very siblings it saved.
- Tony Prochazka
The best of the reds, the whites and the rest – including one for $25
What are the drinks you will remember from 2023? Our expert rounds up his top choices.
- Max Allen
Why the Queen’s son thinks Aussie food is among ‘best in the world’
His mother might be the Queen, but food critic Tom Parker Bowles is more about fish and chips than finger sandwiches.
- Lauren Sams
‘It was great newspaper fodder’: Village Roadshow CEO on family bust-up
A family feud threatened to break their hold on the entertainment industry. But the Kirbys are staging an unlikely comeback, albeit with a smaller piece of their empire.
- Primrose Riordan
- Jill Dupleix
- Recipes
Revealed: Rumi restaurant’s tahini chicken recipe
At the eatery where Anthony Bourdain asked for seconds, smoky and spicy dishes for sharing explore new ways to frame Middle Eastern food.
- Jill Dupleix
Meet Sydney’s go-to private jeweller
After adding ready-to-wear collections to custom orders, Olivia Bond’s business has outgrown its space and is moving to the heritage Trust Building’s top floor.
- Lauren Sams
What luxury watch lovers want for Christmas this year
These enthusiasts haven’t left a note for Santa, but they have revealed what they hope will be under the tree.
- Bani McSpedden
- Investigation
- Assange saga
The bizarre group of politicians who flew economy to free Assange
Barnaby Joyce, who says he doesn’t “terribly like” Julian Assange, is in an alliance of odd political bedfellows campaigning for the WikiLeaks editor’s release.
- James Curran
