ROX Man Magazine 25/26

STILL BANGING HUBLOT’S BIG HIT TURNS 20

A TO ZENITH CELEBRATING THE RECORD-BREAKING CALIBRE ‘135-0’

GREAT DRIVES THE LINKS OF THE WIRRAL, BY PORSCHE

LIVERPOOL’S MOST WANTED

STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT DRESSED IN DIAMONDS

HAPPY SPORT

WELCOME

This annual tour around the ROX empire comes to you from Liverpool. Home of so much more than just the Fab Four. It has a rich horological history that shaped how Victorian cities told the time; Time Out awarded it the accolade of the UK’s Culinary Capital two years in a row, and of course, there’s ROX that has been a defining presence in luxury shopping district at Liverpool One since 2019. This issue we had the extraordinary opportunity to go deep on ROX’s fine jewellery not only getting to see the preliminary sketches for some of its showstoppers, but actually getting to have a nose around the Hatton Garden workshop where the magic happens. It was a real pleasure and a privilege to see where the incredible creations in ROX’s windows, and in the pages of this

magazine, are made. We hope you enjoy the inside track too.

Elsewhere we have the best places to eat a Liverpool staple relatively unknown to those out of the city limits – salt and pepper chips. Born out of the city’s marine history it’s a mash up of the best of Chinese and British cuisine. There are also watch reviews, great drives and even greater places to stay, fabulous jewellery and Karl Lagerfeld’s cat, Choupette in her first Hublot campaign.

It’s a bumper issue and a celebration of this historic city. With only one mention of That Band…

Laura McCreddie-Doak Editor

EDITORS’ PICKS

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18 WISHLIST

This season's must have fashion, accessories and watches.

45 CATWALK AGENDA

This season celebrates contrast and connection. Where strength meets sensuality and rebellion finds refinement.

60

MOST WANTED

Attitude and diamonds collide for a look that exudes pure confidence. It’s bold, elegant and undeniably glamorous.

111 OUT OF THIS WORLD

ROX marks 10 years of it’s iconic Cosmic collection with a high jewellery creation, Supernova.

146 THE LUXURY WATCH EDIT

Here's what your wrist needs to be rocking right now.

151 HANDS ON

At Chopard everything is done in house, including blending its own gold. We go behind the scenes to find out more.

159 WITH A BANG

20 years ago Hublot’s Big Bang burst onto the watch scene. We celebrate its revolutionary couple of decades.

173 INTERIOR MOTIVES

The passenger’s seat is an increasingly pared-back, yet creative space for marques to make their own.

179 GIFTS

You may not need convincing to spend that cash on a flashy must-have, but just in case, here’s a selection of treats to tempt you.

WISH LIST

Our top must-have picks this season.

Bulgari Bulgari £6,300 (81091), Miu Miu Cropped Shirt, ROX Honour Tennis Bracelet from £3,800 (82144), Demellier Leather New York Tote Bag, HUBLOT One Click King Gold £23,500 (78870), Miss ROX Cover Motif Necklace £780 (83493), ROX Love Ring £4,400 (81778), Saint Laurent Calista Sunglasses

TUDOR Black Bay 68 £4,010 (84875), ROX Code Earrings £2,900 (79805), Prada Wool Herringbone Blazer, Saint Laurent Babylone Mules, ROX Code Ring £3,400 (83397), Bulgari Serpenti Seduttori £7,500 (84203), Classic Emerald Cut Ring £8,200 (84748), Bottega Veneta Leather Dustbag, ROX Love Diamond Bangle £6,200 (84821)

Zenith Defy Skyline £8,500 (78841), ROX Cascade Necklace £4,700 (84802), Chloé Ruffled Silk Top, Miss ROX Clover Motif Bracelet £2,900 (83328), Chloé Charms Hobo Bag, Gucci Icon Ring £1,950 (83784), Prada Downtown Bold Sneakers 50, ROX Classic Radiant Cut Ring £7,600 (84749), ROX Honour Earrings from £580 (83903)

Manolo Blahnik Leva 105 Sandals, ROX Classic Necklace £1,380 (83726), Gucci Link to Love Bracelet £1,600 (84787), ROX Love Morganite Halo Ring £2,800 (85041), ROX Code Earrings £7,800 (79802), TAG Heuer Carrera £3,900 (84111), Miu Miu Logo Pouch, ROX Classic Dress Ring £4,100 (85009), ROX Cosmic Diamond Earrings £960 (83462)

Saint Laurent Bomber Jacket, GUCCI Tag

Bracelet £420 (83800), HUBLOT Spirit of Big Bang King Gold

£38,600 (78791), BULGARI

Aluminium Chronograph £4,580 (81524), ROX Classic Emerald Cut Necklace £1,350 (83729), Prada Re-Nylon and Saffiano Leather Bag, ROX Platinum Ring

£3,795 (82263), Loewe Logo-embroidered T-shirt, TAG HEUER

Carrera Chronograph £6,300 (84404)

Tudor Ranger £2,670 (79875), ROX Adore Ring £4,500 (76875), Birkenstock Maharishi Mogami Terra Tech, Jacques Marie Mage Dealan Sunglasses, TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 300 £3,700 (83168), GUCCI GG Supreme Billfold Wallet, Maharishi Asym Cargo Track Pants, GUCCI Trademark GG Supreme Bracelet £310 (83799), HUBLOT Spirit of Big Bang Dark Green Ceramic £23,500 (84121)

Illicitbloc Patchwork Cap, ROX Honour Earrings from £580 (83903), TAG HEUER Carrera Day

Date £3,650 (84399), ZENITH Defy Extreme Diver £10,400 (82794), Prada Re-Nylon Down Jacket, ROX DNA Ring £3,400 (83693), Asics Gel-Kayano 12.1, ROX Honour Collar £9,800 (83204), Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono "Cycling Edition" £4,650 (83018)

Bulgari Octo Roma £8,550 (80940), Bottega Veneta Diago Bag, Chopard Mille Miglia £8,230 (80970), Anderson's Leather Woven Belt, Hublot Classic Fusion Black Magic £8,400 (75372), Dolce & Gabbana Angel Sunglasses, Maison Margiela Fragrance, ROX Adore Ring £3,400 (76799), Zenith Defy Skyline£14,200 (84101)

CULTURAL RADAR

A journey into hell, an addictive psychological thriller from the man who brought you A Simple Favor and a witty but in-depth look at what goes on in the business that is entertainment. We’ve got your cultural talking point covered. Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

THE SCREEN

The Housemaid

Directed by Paul Feig

If you enjoyed the recent campy, fashionextravaganza, bloodfest that was Another Simple Favor and have 2011 Bridesmaids on your “Top 10” films list, then this should be right up your strasse. Based on the 2022 novel of the same name by Freida McFadden, it follows Millie, a struggling young woman who finds work as a housemaid for a wealthy couple, Nina and Andrew. As Millie delves deeper into their lives, she uncovers dangerous secrets about the family, secrets that may be more dangerous than her own. With woman-of-the-moment Sydney Sweeney signed on as Millie and Amanda Seyfried to play Nina, expect a wonderful twist-y slightly overcooked thriller that will be the perfect antidote to the wholesomeness of Christmas.

THE NIGHTSTAND

Katabasis RF Kuang

£22, Harper Collins

Editor’s confession RF Kuang is on this list because said editor cannot get enough of her. At just 222 she published her first novel The Poppy Wars, a fantastical interpretation of the wars and collective trauma that is the 20th century Chinese experience. That trilogy was followed by Babel, a dark-academic book set in a comparative 19th century Oxford that is a critique on British racism and imperialism. Yellowface followed, a side-eyed look at who gets to tell whose stories when it comes to the diaspora. And finally, Katabasis, a fantasy about two magical PhD students as they travel to Hell "to rescue the soul of their adviser”. If her previous works are anything to go by this may well be a riff on the idea that academia is, indeed, hell.

THE

STREAM

The Death of Bunny Monroe

Sky Atlantic/Now

Based on the novel of the same name by Nick Cave, this promises to be an intriguing watch. As with the book, the series is about Bunny Munro, a middle-aged sex addict constant womanising and alcohol abuse comes to a head after his wife's suicide. This travelling door-to-door beautyproduct salesman goes, with his son, on an increasingly out-of-control road trip around Brighton, over which looms the shadow of a serial killer making his way towards Brighton. The novel is set in Brighton in 2003, around the time the West Pier was destroyed by fire. Matt Smith will play the titular Bunny with Rafael Mathé as his son. Release date is as yet unknown, but it looks like it could be worth the wait.

THE COFFEE TABLE BOOK

Tokyo Style by Kyoichi Tsuzuki

£77.59, Apartamento

First published in 1993 following the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy, photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s book sought to debunk the aesthetic myth of life in one of the world’s most fetishised cities – Tokyo. He set off to document the real Tokyo by photographing apartment interiors. The book is a fascinating insight into the lived experience of Tokyo’s inhabitants, and so at odds with the Western perception of how Japanese people live. There’s a room stuffed from floor to ceiling with Peanuts characters plushies, another is a cluttered artist’ studio clothes left in a pile on a table and paintings on walls and ceiling. If minimalism is to be found it is in a room with only a bed and a kid’s trike used as a table for a four-pack of beer on which hangs a bag from the local konbini.

THE EXHIBITION

The Rest is Entertainment

Spotify/Apple Podcasts

If you want to go backstage on the entertainment business, then this is the pod for you. Marina Hyde, Guardian columnist and writing executive producer on recent HBO series The Franchise, partners author and producer Richard Osman are both ridiculously connected and seriously knowledgeable about what goes on behind the scenes in entertainment. Previous episodes have covered everything from the Beckham family feud to why ITV’s daytime schedule is in trouble and whether Trump is trying to kill Hollywood. With Q&As with the likes of Adolescence's director Philip Barantin, and documentarian Adam Curtis as well as deep dives into Blake Lively’s lawsuit, it is a heady mix of high and low culture and an eye-opening look at what really happens after someone calls “cut”.

Albert Richards

Until December 2025, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead

This March marked 80 years since the passing of Albert Richards, the youngest official war artist to be killed in action during WWII. The Williamson holds over two hundred of his works, spanning from his days at the Wallasey School of Art to the frontlines of France in 1944. These works show the incredible talent that Richards possessed, and his influences, from surrealism to Art Deco. As well as displaying works by artists that inspired him and worked alongside him, such as Stanley Spencer and George Jardine, this exhibition will commemorate his life as a soldier, in which he served a key role in the D-Day landings. This incredible personal narrative, mixed with his unique style of painting, makes him one of the biggest “what ifs?” in twentieth century British art.

October 10, Mute Records

Her sound has been described by The Guardian as “part rough-hewn and psychedelic, part London bass culture by osmosis, and part sleepless weekend in Berlin”. She has collaborated with the likes of Jon Hopkins, Fred Again. HAAi, whose real name is Teneil Throssell has followed up her stunning debut album Baby, We’re Ascending, with HUMANiSE. Singles that have come out prior to the release feature Throssell’s haunting voice set to a backdrop of thrumming electro beats that start gently before morphing into something darker, jittery, with that thrum becoming something harder. It’s something you’d expect to hear on the dancefloors of the Berghain. Expect a slew of remixes to follow.

HIDDEN GEMS

Liverpool has a rich horological history. ROX chooses places to go to discover it, as well as sampling some gems of its amazing food scene.

Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

You might not know to look at it now, but Liverpool was once to British watchmaking what Geneva is to Switzerland now. In the 18th and 19th century there were numerous watchmakers in the city producing high-quality clocks and watches. They even produced movements that were exported to US watchmakers. Liverpool was also the first British city with a synchronised public clock system, which was based on an invention by Robert Jones, who was a station manager. An electrical system for connecting clocks was already known but had certain disadvantages – it relied on a single wire and a continuous electrical connection. Jones invented an improvement, where the clocks would continue to run if the connection was poor or broken. His system was used to operate the “Docker's Clock” in Liverpool from the

observatory at Bidston where astronomers determined the time, and it was replicated at Greenwich Observatory and Edinburgh. It even gets a mention in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The other invention pioneered in Liverpool was the time ball, which was a collaboration between the Electric Telegraph Company and George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal and was a public timesignalling device used to provide accurate time to ships and the public. Forget London, when it comes to keeping the country on time, all the knowledge and inventions that came out of Liverpool during this era were vital to the transformation of public timekeeping in Victorian Britain.

So where can you see this history in the present? Here are some locations around Liverpool, paired with some of the best restaurants this very foodie city has to offer that are conveniently nearby.

WHERE TO GO...

THE ROYAL LIVER

BUILDING, PIER HEAD

The Royal Liver Building boasts the largest clock faces in the UK. Measuring 25 meters in diameter, they were that large so sailors could see them as they passed along on the River Mersey. The clocks were designed by Gent & Co, renowned industrial clockmakers, and were first activated on June 22, 1911, to coincide with the exact moment of King George V's coronation and were dubbed the "George clocks" or "Great George Liver Clocks" in his honour. Before being installed, one clock face served as a unique banquet table for dignitaries to celebrate the building's completion. Today you can do a tour of the building, head to the 15th floor to experience those breath-taking views over the Mersey and get up close to a liver bird and then walk the 10 minutes to NORD. The Liver Building has also earned a place in pop culture — Batman once made a spectacular rooftop jump here.

VICTORIA CLOCK, L5 9SR

More something to admire on your way to grab a drink at the newly refurbished Titanic hotel but this is an important part of Liverpool’s horological heritage, nonetheless. This impressive monument, positioned among the two river entrance gates to the Salisbury Dock itself, was constructed between 1847 and 1848 and is strongly influenced by the castle architecture of the Rhine region in Central Europe. It has six clocks around its hexagonal column that allowed marine traffic to synchronise their ship chronometers as they sailed out into Liverpool Bay. The tower had a bell which was used to warn of impending changes to meteorological conditions such as tides, storms, and fog. There was also living quarters inside for the Port's Pier Master. Repairs to it were announced in 2010 after the demise of commercial shipping in Hartley’s Dock led it to fall into disrepair.

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NATIONAL MUSEUMS LIVERPOOL

Across Liverpool’s seven diverse museums under this umbrella there is a clock and watch collection of some 12,000 items, from observatory clocks and regulators to turret clocks, marine chronometers and precision watches. There is even examples of cylinder watches and special industrial clocks and timepieces. Although the likes of a gorgeous astronomical clock made in Ormskirk by Thomas Barry is at the Walker Art Gallery and the pocket watch and chain owned by Titanic steward Thomas Hewitt is at the Maritime Museum, most of the collection pertaining to Liverpool’s watchmaking scene appears to be housed at the World Museum. This is where you’ll find some of Liverpool's earliest watches made by Samuel and Thomas Aspinwall, and a Charles Gretton watch and a clock watch by Edward East who was watchmaker to Charles I. The collection also includes a scientific and horological makers database of 45,000 records. All of which should keep you occupied until it’s time for dinner.

WHERE TO SHOP...

ARNE, L1 8JQ

Discreetly nestled within Liverpool ONE, Arne brings a refined touch of Scandinavian minimalism to the city’s fashion landscape. Celebrated for its impeccable craftsmanship and understated silhouettes, the home grown Liverpool brand has cultivated a devoted following with its timeless approach to contemporary menswear. The new boutique offers an elevated space to explore Arne’s signature essentials and tailored streetwear, positioning it as a must-visit destination for those who appreciate effortless sophistication.

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WHERE TO EAT...

STANLEY’S RUM BAR, TITANIC HOTEL, STANLEY DOCK, REGENT ROAD, L3 0AN

Stanley Dock, described by The Telegraph as “striking, dilapidated relic of Liverpool’s status as a centre of trade and industry” was earmarked for a £130m back in the early 2010s. The Titanic was the first step. The Grade-II listed North Warehouse provided the bones of the hotel, which is all large ceilings, lightfilled atriums and substantial corridors. Directly across from it is the formidable, 14-storey Tobacco Warehouse, made of 27 million bricks and at one time the largest brick-built building in the world, now converted into luxury apartments. Skip Stanley’s Bar & Grill, which offer solid but unispiring fare and head for the Rum Bar – the name a nod to what was stored in North Warehouse. The cocktail menu gets creative with this particular spirit. There is a selection of rum-based drinks as well as Cellar menu featuring rums from around the world to sample unadulterated. Sit in one of the comfy sofas and gaze out over the dock basin to Tobacco Warehouse as the sun goes down.

QUEENS ROAD BISTRO AND WINE BAR, 8-10 QUEEN AVENUE, L2 4TX

Tucked away behind Liverpool Town Hall is this pretty street that is one of Liverpool’s best kept secrets. The look is more Diagon Alley or a Parisian back street with its Grade-II listed buildings and small wooden tables crowded in front of restaurants. One such establishment is Queen’s Bistro and Wine Bar that looks straight off the set of Amelie. The menu leans into that aesthetic with classics such as steak frites with a garlic and herb butter, or chicken ballotine with celeriac and tarragon. The starters range from cauliflower and dill soup to tiger prawns, with a bisque, quinoa, and cayenne and the dessert menu that starts strong with a salted caramel tart accompanied by an espresso Chantilly.

NORD, THE PLAZA, 100 OLD HALL STREET, L3 9QJ

This establishment was up by executive chef Daniel Heffy. Heffy’s kitchen-scarred hands are all over Liverpool’s restaurant scene. As well as NORD and The Hightown Inn, a pub 15 minutes-drive from Pier Head, he set up another celebrated restaurant, The Art School Restaurant with Great British Menu regular Paul Askew and created a celebrated supper club, the Secret Diners Club and also owns Buyers Club – a neighbourhood-style restaurant and bar specialising in homemade pasta and natural wines. NORD is his homage to his time spent in Michelin-starred restaurants Frantzén and Adam/Albin in Stockholm. Everything is sourced locally, with the supplier furthest afield being Growing @ Field 28 – a pesticide and biocide-free farm in Warrington just 19 miles away. There are a few Skandi flourishes – pickled heritage cucumber, smoked trout with a dill soured cream – but most of the menu is crowd-pleasers. A lamb T-bone, butterpoached cod, spinach and ricotta gnocchi, with crème caramel and baked Alaska for dessert. There is also bar with an extensive cocktail menu so either arrive early or prepare to leave late.

AND FINALLY… WHERE TO STAY

THE BOUTIQUE

2 BLACKBURNE TERRACE, L8 7JP

This really is as boutique as it gets. This is a converted Georgian townhouse on a charming, cobbled square with an anonymous door, even cabbies have difficulty finding. Inside that door is a charming, arty, space that’s more “shared house” than hotel. There are four rooms over three levels with their own individual personalities. The attic room, room four, is the one to aim for with incredible views over the Anglican Cathedral, which is illuminated at night. Though this is strictly a B&B sloe gin and macaroons great you on arrival, but you have Liverpool’s cultural quarter on your doorstep and renowned restaurant The London Carriage Works just a four-minute stroll away. 2blackburneterrace.com

THE RESIDENT LIVERPOOL, 29 SEEL STREET, L1 4AU THE WAREHOUSE

If you want to be right in the heart of Liverpool’s buzz, The Resident is the place to be. Tucked away in the Ropewalks district, you’ll have the best of the city on your doorstep – from the boutiques and bars of Bold Street to the nightlife of Concert Square. Liverpool ONE is just around the corner for some serious shopping (and maybe even a bit of “ROX while you shop”). Once a warehouse in the city’s industrious past, the building’s high ceilings and brick arches nod to its history while the interiors are sleek, calm and contemporary. Rooms come with mini-kitchens so you can stock up on local treats, or step out to explore the city’s ever-evolving food scene.

HARD DAY’S NIGHT HOTEL, CENTRAL BUILDINGS, NORTH JOHN ST, LIVERPOOL L2 6RR THE BEATLES

If you want a full Fab Four immersion then this is your place for the weekend. This is the world’s only Beatles-inspired hotel and is located in the magnificent Grade-II listed Central Buildings, dating back to 1884. All rooms are individually designed around the contours of the original building and elegantly furnished with specially commissioned Beatles-inspired artwork adorning the walls. It’s also right next to the Cavern Club as well as other Beatles landmarks. It’s a place where you will be sleeping like log after exploring the rich music history Liverpool has to offer. milleniumhotels.com

TEE OFF AT THE WIRRAL

We’ve ‘linked’ up your 36-hole Northwest escape plan, with a long weekend playing the best of the Peninsula’s sandy courses, set to a spectacular coastal backdrop Words by Alex Doak.

Nestled between the River Dee and the River Mersey, the Wirral Peninsula is a golfer’s dream. Coastal breezes, rolling dunes, classic parkland fairways.. it all sets the stage for a roadtrip that blends the old-fashioned English seaside with not a fair bit of added challenge for the more inlandinclined handicap.

This corner of the Northwest might be compact, and at times unapologetically ‘kiss me quick’. But even for those who opt to stay at the spa back in well-to-do West Kirby, while the other hits the greens, it’s irresistibly characterful. Not to mention a doddle to navigate and a stone’s throw from Chester city in all its finery. (The six-course tasting

menu at Chef’s Table on Pepper Street Row comes highly recommended.)

Three links courses — the Royal Liverpool, Caldy, and Wallasey — offer all of the above, plus far-greater accessibility than the holier-thanmost Royal Birkdale could ever afford, north of Liverpool. Add in coastal community spirit, hearty dining, heart-rending estuary sunsets, and you have a golf trip that lingers long after the final putt drops. And an easy drive back to your 'L1' bolthole once the last of the 19th hole has been downed.

On the other hand, you could keep it local come nightfall, as we play caddy to your accommodation as well as driving direction (in both senses of the word).

DAY ONE

ROYAL LIVERPOOL GOLF CLUB

Morning:

Begin at the legendary Royal Liverpool Golf Club in the Wirral’s Hoylake region; one of the oldest and most prestigious courses in England. Founded in 1869, it’s hosted The Open multiple times, most recently in 2023. Its links-style layout demands precision, especially when the sea winds roll in across Hoylake’s sandy terrain. (Top tip: keep an eye on the out-of-bounds running along the righthand side of the opening hole—it’s as iconic as it is intimidating.)

Afternoon:

After your round, stroll into Hoylake village. Treat yourself to fresh seafood at one of the local bistros, or unwind with a pint at The Ship Inn, a cozy pub just a short walk from the clubhouse.

Evening:

Stay overnight in West Kirby, where boutique hotels overlook the Dee Estuary – perfect for a sunset walk along Marine Lake. Hillbark Hotel & Spa in particular: the only 5-star hotel in Merseyside, with 17 beautifully appointed rooms, each featuring super king-sized beds as standard, a 3AA Rosette award for culinary excellence at The Dining Room & Cellar (with tasting menus by Chef Kevin Lynn) and a world-class spa, should those drives have driven your shoulders a little too hard.

ISLAND BORN, FEARLESS SPIRIT

AWARD-WINNING SPIRITS DISTILLED ON THE ISLE OF BARRA USING LOCALLY FORAGED SEAWEED.

DAY TWO

CALDY GOLF CLUB

Morning:

Head south along the coast to Caldy Golf Club, perched high on cliffs with sweeping views across the estuary to North Wales. Founded in 1907, Caldy combines heathland and links characteristics, offering variety on every hole. The signature par-3 12th—played across a dramatic ravine—is a Wirral favorite.

Afternoon:

Enjoy a leisurely lunch in Heswall, known for its gastropubs and chic cafés. If you’re in the mood to stretch your legs, the Wirral Way walking trail runs nearby, tracing the old railway line with coastal scenery aplenty.

Evening:

Return to Hillbark, or venture into Chester (just 30 minutes away) for a taste of Roman history and a fine dining experience inside its medieval walls at Chef’s Table (reserve well ahead).

Arkle on Eastgate Street is also recommended by the Michelin Guide. Situated in the resplendent Grade II-listed Chester Grosvenor hotel, its signature restaurant – named after a famous racehorse – is decked out in the same kind of unashamedly formal 19th-century elegance the hotel is known for. The menus highlight the best of British produce, from Isle of Wight tomatoes to Herdwick hogget.

DAY THREE

WALLASEY GOLF CLUB

Morning:

Round’ off your grand Wirral golfing tour at Wallasey Golf Club, a rugged links course with serious pedigree. This is the birthplace of 'Stableford' scoring, and the course is every bit as inventive as its history suggests. The dunes, pot bunkers, and unpredictable winds make for a thrilling round. And on a clear day, you’ll spot the skyline of Liverpool across the Mersey.

Afternoon:

Toast your trip with lunch in New Brighton, where the Victorian promenade has been revitalised with cafés, bars, and a classic seaside charm. If you time your Wirral itinerary right, Sunday roast at the New Brighton Hotel Bar & Grill is a local must. Order the topside.

CAR?

With all the gear (and some idea) a keen golfer would default to an SUV these days. But the smart choice in our eyes is an estate, or 'shooting brake' – a good-old extended-boot saloon, benefitting from a far sleeker profile, racier options, plus less effort hauling your clubs up and over the tailgate, especially after three days pounding those greens. Porsche's Taycan is the consummate all-round performance choice (100kmph in a neck-snapping 3.3 seconds) and also the kind choice, being all-electric and therefore 'green' in its own way.

PORSCHE TAYCAN GTS SPORT TURISMO WHICH

MAGGIE FU, 346 SMITHDOWN ROAD, L15 5AN

Less a chippy and more an Asian restaurant that happens to have salt and pepper chips on the menu Maggie Fu is described in Liverpool World as a “household name” with two branches in the city – one in the centre and this one on Smithdown Road. In contrast to Chris’s these are thin crispy chips that come in generous portion sizes.

DO YOU WANT VINEGAR WITH THAT?

Salt and pepper chips are so local to Liverpool that chances are you’ve never heard of it. Here’s a brief history of this intriguing culinary mash up and the top five places to go should you find yourself in the city. Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

If you’re not from Liverpool, chances are you won’t have heard of salt and pepper chips. As the name doesn’t suggest this is Liverpudlian delicacy sold in both chip shops and Chinese takeaways is a dish of chips topped with peppers (the bell kind to use an Americanism) onions, a spice mix – sometimes just five spice, though some establishments have their own secret blend – and finally salt and pepper (the corn kind). The reason they are native to Liverpool dates back to 1834 when the first Chinese people moved to Liverpool, on the first direct route created from the city to China, to work on the docks. Seeing an opportunity to give

these Chinese sailors and dock workers a taste of home, other Chinese immigrants set up restaurants – ones that preserved Chinese culinary culture but with a little influence from their environs known as Chinese chippies. Hence salt and pepper chips. No one knows who served them first, but locals have become very territorial about who makes the best kind. Being a southerner and therefore not having eaten a single salt and pepper chip, nor wanting to offend any connoisseurs of this delicacy, I defer to Secret Liverpool (secretliverpool.co) and Liverpool World (liverpoolworld.uk) for their top five salt and pepper chip vendors.

CHRIS’S CHIPPY ROSE LANE, L18 8AD

There are rumours that it was this establishment that brought the salt and pepper chip to South Liverpool. Whatever the truth of the matter is, it is acknowledge that Chris’s makes some of the best salt and pepper chips this side of the Mersey. A reporter for the Liverpool Echo who had only moved to the city five months prior to her trying them called them “life changing” and the Hairy Bikers have paid them a visit. What more could you want?

PENNY LANE FISH AND CHIPS, 53 PENNY LANE, L18 1DE

Penny Lane (and yes you will have this song in your head all day now) is another South Liverpool institution. Its USP is that it will salt and pepper your chips to order. Fresh hot fries coated in Chinese spices sounds like the perfect snack whether you’re hungover or just on your way home.

WOO TAN SCRAN DUKE STREET, LIVERPOOL L1

This should make the list for the name alone, however it is actually on here for being a completely vegetarian and vegan establishment serving as part of Down the Hatch, Liverpool’s dirty vegan joint. They also don’t just give their chips, which come straight up or curly, the salt-and-pepper treatment. You can have tofu, spring rolls and even samosas in this style. Or you could just stick to the chips.

LAU’S FISH & CHIPS, SMITHDOWN ROAD, L15

Another Smithdown address and this one is a proper chippie albeit one with a 250-option strong menu and everything from Szechuan prawns to barm cakes. According to reports the salt and pepper chips are crispy and chunky. You can even order a saltand-pepper box with wings, nuggets and spring rolls all getting this treatment.

THE JEWEL OF THE HIGHLANDS

Located on the bonnie banks, our 5-star resort offers an extraordinary escape where nature’s beauty meets unparalleled luxury.

Discover elegant accommodation, from stylish rooms and indulgent suites to charming lodges, cosy cottages, and spacious apartments, alongside a variety of bars and restaurants, two golf courses, an award-winning spa, and a collection of unforgettable land and loch experiences.

ICE CUBE

CATWALK AGENDA

This season celebrates contrast and connection. Where strength meets sensuality and rebellion finds refinement. Luxe textures, fluid tailoring and radiant hues blur the lines between masculine and feminine. It’s fashion in motion: effortless, elevated and confidently bold.

Words by Arabella Keogh.

REBEL LUXE

Leather reigns supreme with a decadent twist. From sultry leather dresses to sharply cut jackets, this season’s rebel aesthetic oozes edge while staying undeniably refined. Whether in deep blacks or rich browns , leather becomes the fabric of empowerment. Pair with bold sunglasses or statement jewellery for instant after-dark dominance.

HUBLOT

LOEWE

CELINE EYEWEAR

LOUIS VUITTON SAINT

CHANEL

SAFFRON CHIC

Warm, bold and utterly captivating—saffron is the must-have hue of the season. From tailored coats to flowing dresses, this golden-yellow shade radiates confidence and sophistication. Pair it with bold gold jewellery for maximum impact. Whether in statement separates or head-to-toe ensembles, Saffron Chic brings a sunny, fashion-forward edge that can’t be ignored.

BOTTEGA

FUR PLAY

Faux fur takes the throne this season with drama, volume and plush texture. From oversized coats to playful cropped jackets, this is luxe comfort with a cruelty-free edge. Perfect for layering over tailored trousers or slinky dresses, fur is no longer just outerwear—it’s a statement. Step out wrapped in warmth, glamour and unapologetic attitude.

STELLA MCCARTNEY

CELINE

ELIE SAAB

GLITTER BOMB

Step into the spotlight this season as it's all about the sparkle. Think dazzling dresses drenched in glitter and radiant sequins that refuses to be ignored. Whether it’s a full-on sparkle gown or subtle sparkle details, this trend turns every moment into a redcarpet moment. Shine brighter than ever and own the night in pure ROX style.

ELIE SAAB

STELLA MCCARTNEY VERSACE

BRIT CHIC RIVIVAL

HEUER Aquaracer Professional 200 85134 | £3,400

Cool Britannia is back. This trend channels 90s Brit Pop with a modern twist: bomber jackets, vintage tees, cargo pants and swagger that feels effortlessly iconic. Think Oasis-inspired nonchalance mixed with contemporary tailoring. Add tinted sunglasses and chunky trainers for a throwback look that still feels fresh and rebellious. ROX

ROX Bracelet 85124 | £210

ROX

ROX Earrings 85125 | £550

ROX Necklace 85114 | £360 ROX

ROX Earrings 85126 | £480

£790

ROX Earrings 85127 | £680

ROX

STELLA MCCARTNEY

Falabella Wallet Bag £540

MIU MIU Tyre technical sneakers

TAG

MUGLER

LOEWE

BALMAIN

POWER SHOULDERS

Tailoring gets supercharged this season with the return of the power shoulder. Sharp blazers, strong lines and oversized silhouettes redefine boardroom-to-bar dressing. This is confidence in fashion form. Bold, structured and commanding. Balance the look with a bold watch and diamonds for an instant upgrade on modern sophistication.

MUGLER

GEORGES HOBEIKA

FREE SPIRIT

Boho gets a luxe revival with flowing silhouettes, delicate lace and ethereal fabrics. Romantic yet carefree, this trend captures effortless elegance with a modern twist. Billowing dresses, crochet details and sheer layers channel free-spirited femininity. Pair with a crochet bag and statment sunglasses for boho done the luxe way.

ROX Cascade Bangle

ROX

Cascade Earrings

ROX

Cascade Necklace

ROX

Oval Cut Ring

CELINE Micro Tilly in Raffia

ROX Cascade Ring

CHLOÉ Aly sunglasses

ROX

Bracelet

CHLOÉ

CHLOÉ DOLCE&GABBANA

LINE UP

Stripes take centre stage in tailoring this season. This trend redefines power dressing for the modern man. Think bold, vertical lines running through sharply cut suits that elongate the silhouette and command attention. Add a statement watch and layered tennis bracelets for a look that’s sleek, confident and stylish.

ZENGA

ZENITH

HUBLOT

AMIRI

WILLY CHAVARRIA

COUNTRY BOY

Rugged meets refined with the return of double denim. From deep indigo jackets paired with relaxed jeans to washed-out denim shirts layered over crisp tees. This look balances workwear grit with modern polish. Dress it up with boots and layered jewellery, or keep it casual with trainers for an effortless, all-day vibe.

GUCCI

GUCCI

MAISON

ZENITH

HUBLOT

TAAKK

BACK TO SCHOOL

Cool, clever and effortlessly sharp. This trend reinvents office wear with a prep-school edge. It’s classy but cool, mixing collegiate vibes with a grown-up sophistication. Elevate with loafers and bold rings for a look that’s polished yet playfully modern.

LOUIS

GIORGIO ARMANI

FLYING SOLO

Relaxation gets a fashion-forward upgrade. This season embraces easy silhouettes, fluid fabrics and understated layering. Perfect for the man who thrives on independence, this look leans into comfort while staying stylish. Pair with sleek trainers or sandals and finish with a minimalist bracelet for a confident, effortless finish.

MAHARISHI

GUCCI

GUCCI

HERMES

CHOPARD

HUBLOT

ZENITH

GIORGIO ARMANI

HERMÈS

MOST WANTED

Attitude and diamonds collide for a look that exudes pure confidence. Statement jewellery and stacked bracelets complete the allure. It’s bold, elegant and undeniably glamorous.

Art Director: Arabella Keogh

Photographer: Iain Lim

Photographer assistant: Niall Burns

Hair Stylist: Jason Meacher

MUA: Gloria Vila Bea

Stylist: Danni Timperley

Female Model: Marly Fjeldstad

Male Model: Emil Rouquet

Videographer: Daniel Odoom

BTS: Subhaan Saleem

St Georges Hall

ROX Honour Earrings £8,500 (84949), ROX Honour Necklace £22,000 (84948), ROX Honour Radiant Cut Ring from £1,800 (81452), ROX Dress Ring £4,100 (85009), ROX Orange Aloxite Cocktail Ring £9,000 (85210), ROX Honour Yellow Gold Tennis Bracelets from £4,200 (82145), ROX Honour White Gold Tennis Bracelets from £4,200 (82144), Bvlgari Serpenti Tubogas £48,700 (80931)

ROX Honour Earrings from £580 (83903), ROX Honour Collar £9,800 (83204), ROX Honour White Gold Tennis Bracelet from £4,200 (82144), ROX DNA Bangle £8,400 (79371), ROX Adore Ring £4,500 (76875), Hublot Big Bang Unico King Gold £35,800 (76845)

Port of Liverpool Building

ROX Honour Yellow Gold Tennis Bracelets from £4,200 (82145), ROX Honour White Gold Tennis Bracelets from £4,200 (82144), ROX Honour Collar £15,000 (84951), ROX Dress Ring £4,100 (85010), ROX Honour Earrings from £580 (83903), ROX Honour Ring from £1,950 (83466), ROX DNA Bangle £8,400 (79371), TUDOR Black Bay £4,010 (82851), ROX Honour Collar £25,000 (84952), ROX Hoop Earrings £2,500 (85108)

SUIT UP

Structured tailoring, sharp lines and a modern edge that means business. Layered diamonds and bold rings stand out, catching the light as confidently as she feels. A statement of power and poise for the modern woman.

ROX Code Necklace

£8,500 (84917), ROX Code Earrings £8,400 (84915), ROX Code Ring

£6,900 (84916), ROX Code Bracelet £22,000 (79799), ROX Code Bangle £13,800 (79807), Bulgari Serpenti Seduttori £15,700 (84125), ROX Adore Cushion Cut Ring POA

ROX Adore Ring £3,400 (76799), Zenith Chronomaster Sport £10,700 (82723), ROX Code Bracelet £4,800 (79797), ROX Honour Tennis Bracelet from £4,200 (82144)

LIGHTS, DIAMONDS, ACTION

When the night calls, she answers. This is cocktail-hour dialed up. Sequins, shimmer and statement sparkling diamonds that radiate electric energy. Because when you’re wearing diamonds, the spotlight never misses you.

Guacho Liverpool

Black Double Breasted Tuxedo

ROX Code Bracelet

£4,800 (83335), ROX Honour Tennis Bracelet

£11,000 (84313), ROX Code Emerald Cut Ring

£9,500 (84777), ROX Code Earrings

£6,500 (84914), ROX Code Necklace

£8,500 (84913), ROX Code Ring

£4,500 (84912)

THE COLOUR CODE

Introducing a new addition to ROX Code Collection. Diamonds, tourmalines and colours unite in a radiant new era of expression.

HAPPY HEARTS

THE LUXURY JEWELLERY EDIT

Step into a world where artistry and brilliance intertwine. Featuring our most unique and exceptional diamond creations, these ROX exclusive high jewellery collections celebrates the mastery of craftsmanship. Each piece is meticulously designed and made by hand. An inspired expression of rarity, precision and the eternal allure of diamonds. Words by Arabella Keogh.

ROX CODE

Statement Collar

Seemingly spontaneous yet meticulously composed, the ROX Code Diamond Drop Collar captures the art of contrast as each diamond shape and setting a note in a dazzling symphony of light. Crafted in luminous white gold, this exclusive design is both bold and refined, its intricate rhythm revealing the beauty of true craftsmanship.

79795 | £24,500

ROX DNA

Pave Skeleton Bangle

The ROX DNA Diamond Bangle embodies the spirit of ROX — confident, contemporary, and crafted to perfection. Its intricate pattern mirrors the facets of a diamond, radiating light with every movement. Designed and made exclusively for ROX, it’s a striking celebration of individuality and artistry, a statement of strength and elegance in perfect balance.

77769 | £11,400

ROX COSMIC

Diamond Collar

Inspired by the infinite beauty of the stars, the ROX Cosmic Diamond Collar captures the magic of the night sky in shimmering form. Each diamond is like a point of light in the cosmos, arranged with celestial precision to create an aura of wonder and sophistication. A masterpiece of design and imagination, this collar transforms cosmic energy into wearable art.

71788 | £29,000

ROX CODE

Tourmaline Earrings

Vivid and full of life, the ROX Code Diamond & Tourmaline Drop Earrings celebrate colour and craftsmanship in perfect harmony. Green and pink tourmalines meet the brilliance of diamonds in a design that feels both modern and timeless. Each gemstone is carefully set by hand, bringing a sense of joy, artistry and movement to every glance.

84915 | £8,400

ROX LOVE

Aquamarine Halo Ring

The ROX Love Ring is an ode to serenity and grace. A luminous aquamarine glows with tranquil blue depth, surrounded by a halo of radiant diamonds that enhance its ethereal beauty. Handcrafted in platinum, it’s a symbol of enduring love and artistry. A piece that feels as timeless as it looks, designed to be cherished for a lifetime.

85037 | £7,900

ROX CASCADE

Rubover Necklace

Like Champagne bubbles caught middance, the ROX Cascade Diamond Necklace shimmers with playful sophistication. A graceful flow of diamonds captures the light with every movement, evoking joy and celebration. This exclusive piece embodies the effortless elegance that defines ROX — fluid, feminine and irresistibly radiant.

84533 | £6,500

ROX CODE

Dress Ring

The ROX Code Diamond Dress Ring reimagines classic glamour with contemporary artistry. Sleek baguette and brilliant-cut diamonds flow together in a seamless composition, creating a sparkle that feels both powerful and refined. Every curve, every facet reflects ROX’s devotion to craft. An understated statement of confidence and timeless style.

77740 | £6,400

OUT OF THIS WORLD

ROX marks 10 years of it’s iconic Cosmic collection with a high jewellery creation, Supernova, inspired by the beauty of the cosmos. And it is stellar. Words by Laura McCreadie-Doak.

ROX Cosmic Supernova Necklace £10,600 (84911), ROX

Cosmic Starburst Ring

£4,200 (84926), ROX Cosmic Ring

£3,100 (72538), ROX Cosmic Bracelet £4,800 (71786), ROX

Cosmic Bracelet £5,900 (83625), ROX Cosmic Bangle £9,800 (79682), ROX Cosmic Earrings £2,400 (77864)

Stars have long provided artistic inspiration. There is the swirling mesmeric vortexes of Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night; Dior’s reimagining of the Zodiac; and ROX with its Cosmic collection.

Technically it isn’t the stars, so much as spiral galaxies that caught Ailsa Mackie'e eye, Head of Design at ROX, back in 2015. These are a particular type of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble, in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae. They are flat rotating discs containing stars, gas and dust, with a central concentration of stars often surrounded by a fainter halo of other stars. Ailsa and the team at ROX translated these cosmic bodies into incredible pieces of jewellery. The swirls of dust become diamonds, the central concentration of stars one single gemstone.

It is not just these galaxies that sparked creativity – the collection also takes its design cues from a phenomenon known as cosmic rays. These are high-energy charged sub-atomic particles that travel through space at the speed of light. They originate from the Sun, supernovae and distant galaxies. The story of their discovery is as romantic as the notion that these luminescent particles come from the furthest reaches of space itself.

In 1912, an Austrian physicist called Victor Hess took a balloon 5,300 meters into the air. At this height you would be able to see the curvature of the earth. Hess was more interested in radiation entering the atmosphere. He named this radiation “cosmic rays” and this discovery established the

field of particle physics and contributed to our understanding of the universe. Alisa Mackie explains, "These glittering showers of particles have been translated into modernist geometric shapes and tapered forms to create stiking cosmic rays that link together to create necklaces, earrings and bracelets or stacked to form rings."

As with all ROX jewellery it is an entirely in-house project from concept to creation. Ailsa formulates the ideas, and then the pieces, all of which in this collection are handcrafted in 18ct white gold, 18ct yellow gold and platinum set with natural diamonds. Having its own team of craftspeople allows ROX to experiment with settings. This collection uses thread and grain, channel and bezel settings, each to enhance the beauty of the stones.

To celebrate 10 years of ROX Cosmic, ROX has gone all out with the Supernova statement necklace which highlights the level of creativity both in the workshop and with the design team. The level of craftsmanship and attention to detail on the piece is next level.

Stars have

long provided artistic inspiration. There is the swirling mesmeric vortexes of Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night; Dior’s reimagining of the Zodiac; and ROX with its Cosmic collection.

The first layer of the necklace is an 18ct cross of cosmic rays topped with diamond-set bezel tips to stabilise the pendant against the chest. Then a series of thread and grain diamond-set cosmic swirls are woven like ribbons round a central cabochon cut 1.69ct pink opal, chosen for its emotional healing properties. The pink opal and its setting are mounted on the cross and it is surrounded, in turn, with shafts of diamond-set cosmic rays that shoot out at differing lengths and angles. If that wasn’t enough star power, it hangs on an 18ct white gold, four-strand, trace chain decorated with spectacleset diamonds where the chains meet the pendant.

The overall effect is to simulate a supernova explosion. It is like looking into the heart of a galaxy – both awe-inspiring and mesmerising. And a stunning testament to the star power of ROX’s jewellery.

MEET THE MAKERS

Laura McCreddie-Doak takes us behind the scenes to find out who are the hands behind the incredible ROX fine-jewellery creations.

Photography: Alex Doak

Considering the wealth concentrated in one small area, London’s Hatton Garden is an unassuming place. The buildings look more like out-of-town office blocks; the shop fronts, when they have them certainly don’t have the glitz, glamour and window dressing of those in Bond Street. However, it is out of here that some of the world’s most beautifully crafted pieces of jewellery are made. Including those you’ll have admired in the windows of ROX.

Make no mistake, this is a proper jewellery workshop. There’s no champagne bar, or plush carpets, instead there’s dusty bench skins, wellworn tools and, flashing in the caught light in the

corners of these benches, exquisitely set diamond jewellery.

“We build from scratch here,” says Jake Biggs who runs the workshop, the “we” referring to him and four other jewellers including his father. “We CAD on site, do 3D printing. We like to print in pieces so we can work out how to put them together, then cast if we’re happy.” After that the finished piece is polished, cleaned, then the height, if it is a ring, is checked by eye and examined to see if the stone has tilted. “It’s no one’s fault if it has,” says Biggs. “If you’re looking at something for so long, you don’t see its flaws.”

If there’s anyone who’s going to spot a minute

flaw in a stone setting it is Biggs. Despite being only 35 he has been in the jewellery trade 18 years. “I was first apprenticed about 200 yards from here,” he says gesturing out of his window. I started four doors down, where my dad [Kevin Biggs] worked. I’ve been coming to Hatton Garden for as long as I can remember.” However Hatton Garden wasn’t where Biggs spent his formative jewellery years. Those were spent on Bond Street where he worked for both Boodles and Graff; two of the finest highjewellery houses in the UK. Following his time at Boodles, he was asked by Bob Aylett to come take over his workshop so he could slow down a little, which was how Biggs came to be the pliers behind the precious creations at ROX.

“ROX is not like any other jeweller that I have worked with,” says Biggs, not just referring to their fabulous retail spaces and way of treating every customer like royalty. “They have fantastic ideas about design and really want to do things differently.”

“ROX is not like any other jeweller that I have worked with,” says Biggs, not just referring to their fabulous retail spaces and way of treating every customer like royalty. “They have fantastic ideas about design and really want to do things differently.” Any design usually starts either with a conversation with the customer, if it’s a bespoke piece, or with Grant Mitchell, who co-founded ROX with Kyron Keogh back in 2002. Mitchell and Biggs are definitely a pair who like to challenge each other creatively. “Grant asked me to do a ring with a hidden halo [a ring of diamonds hidden underneath a centrally mounted stone that can only be seen by the wearer] and I really don’t like hidden halos,’ explains Biggs. “But I did it and I have to admit, it looks really cool.” Biggs says that he and Mitchell are constantly messaging each other with ideas and images that could serve as inspiration for either another oneoff ring or an entire collection. Serena Gomez’s engagement ring being one such example.

One thing Biggs feels he has contributed to the ROX identity was what he likes to refer to as “beefing things up”. His theory is this – you buy jewellery to wear it, everyday if possible. You can’t do that if you have delicate designs with the potential to dent or for the stones to fall out because they aren’t properly secured. Biggs has found clever ways to ensure ROX jewellery is life-proof and you can see it in the Adore collection. Rings are set with a thread and grain setting – an intricate way of setting stones so that the gems are secured with the help of tiny prongs or beads, which are barely visible and hold the stones tight together. Not only does the piece look “encrusted” but the tight packing ensures stone security. The same is true of Biggs use of bezel, or rubover setting, where the stone is encircled by a ring of precious metal that secures it in place and protects it from external damage. It also allows the natural beauty of the stone to take centre stage because there are

no claws or prongs to disrupt its table.

Biggs shares ROX’s commitment to innovation and ethical luxury, championing the use of labgrown diamonds and coloured gemstones in their most show-stopping creations. “These exceptional stones allow us to be even more creative in the jewellery making process. We’re now crafting some of the most exciting and distinctive jewellery we’ve ever produced,” he says.

For now Biggs is working on a pair of diamond stud earrings that are needed by the end of the week. “The ROX customer certainly wants things ‘now’,” he says with a laugh. “I get it though, once you’ve decided what you want, you want to start wearing it.” And he sits down at his bench said earring in hand, ready to make another ROX client very happy.

Come instore to start your journey to the perfect piece of ROX jewellery

COOL BRITANNIA REBORN

Liverpool’s 90s edge meets modern cool with layered diamonds that sparkle to their own Britpop rhythm: fearless, fun and unmistakably cool. Words by Arabella Keogh.

The 90s are calling and Liverpool, ever the city of sound and style, has picked up. Once again, its streets hum with that distinct Britpop confidence, where attitude was the ultimate accessory and Oasis was the anthem of rebellion. But this time, the movement comes with a 2025 twist: cleaner cuts, sustainable fabrics and a genderless edge that speaks to a new kind of cool.

Liverpool has always been a birthplace of cultural revolution. Decades before Oasis swaggered onto the scene, The Beatles redefined what it meant to be British and bold.

The city’s knack for fusing music, mood and fashion runs deep with each generation layering its own rhythm onto the last. In the 90s, that legacy evolved into Cool Britannia: bomber jackets, baggy denim and vintage tees worn with nonchalant bravado. It wasn’t just a look; it was a lifestyle that said I don’t care and meant it.

Now, Cool Britannia is back but with a modern remix. Designers are reimagining Britpop staples through a contemporary lens: cargo trousers with crisp tailoring, retro graphics paired with structured blazers, tinted

sunglasses offset by chunky trainers. It’s nostalgia, but make it fashion. The new iteration trades lad culture for inclusivity, swapping pub grit for polished irreverence.

And what’s a revival without a little sparkle? Adding a touch of diamonds to this effortlessly undone aesthetic brings a refined balance. Miss ROX brings a fun, playful and unapologetically stylish look that captures the Diamonds & Thrills spirit with a contemporary twist. Layered necklaces, stacked bracelets and rings, and diamond-dotted ear-scaping that catches the light from every angle. Worn solo for subtle sparkle or mixed and matched for full-impact shine, these pieces echo Liverpool’s own energy: fearless, expressive and eternally chic.

Liverpool’s creatives are leading the revival, channeling their city’s dual heritage of melody and mischief. From the Beatles to Britpop, from Cavern Club guitars to TikTok remixes, the Scouse spirit remains the same unapologetic, independent, effortlessly iconic.

So zip up that bomber jacket, throw on your shades, rock your diamonds and walk with the rhythm of the Mersey in your step. Cool Britannia has returned and it’s louder, sharper and prouder than ever.

Miss ROX Initial Necklace £470 (76363), Miss ROX Hope Necklace £980 (81775), Miss ROX Bar Necklace £740 (85061), Miss ROX Moon Necklace £920 (81662), ROX Classic Radiant Cut Ring £7,600 (84749), Miss ROX Dress Ring £1,480 (81792), Miss ROX Clover Motif Ring £780 (84241), Miss ROX Stacking Ring £850 (83250), Miss ROX Ring £1,150 (85067), Miss ROX Wave Ring £590 (85072) Miss ROX Stacking Ring £620 (81785), Miss ROX Clover Motif Bracelet £2,900 (83328), Miss ROX Line Bracelet £1,490 (80725), Miss ROX Clover Motif Bracelet £680 (84239), Miss ROX Droplet Bracelet £570 (84245), Miss ROX Bar Bracelet £350 (85075), Bulgari Aluminium £4,580 (81524), Miss ROX Hoop Earrings £1,100 (81691)

TAG Heuer Formula 1 Solargraph £1,550 (84394), ROX Platinum Ring £1,650 (84612), M ROX Cross Earring £260 (85076)

Since 1988, Chopard has been World Sponsor and Official Timekeeper of the legendary 1000 Miglia , the world’s most beautiful car race. As the ultimate embodiment of our passion for endurance rallies and the competitive spirit, the 40.5 mm-diameter Mille Miglia Classic Chronograph combines a sporty design with chronometer-certified precision. Proudly developed and handcrafted by our Artisans, this exceptional timepiece showcases the finest expertise and innovation cultivated within our Manufacture.

WORLD SPONSOR & OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER

MILLE MIGLIA CLASSIC CHRONOGRAPH

THE LUXURY WATCH EDIT

As the gendered codes of watch design ever-shift and overlap (while core catalogues de-gender themselves wholesale) a merciful upshot is that overtly masculine brands or hero collections find themselves with licence to get more decorative than ever across the two pluckiest complications of all: the travel timer and chronograph. Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

ZENITH

Defy Skyline 160th Anniversary

The Big Bang might have turned 20, but along with Vacheron at 270 and Breguet at 250, next was Zenith in 2025’s roster of big anniversaries, hitting the big one-six-oh in suitable style. As well reimagining one of its most successful ‘observatory trial’ movements in more precise guise than ever (the ‘G.F.J.’ named after the founder) three exceptional examples of its core triptych – Pilot, Defy, Chronomaster Sport - were unveiled, all in ceramic and all rendered in Zenith’s newly adopted cerulean-blue signature shade.

84385 | £21,400

HUBLOT

Big Bang 20th Anniversary

It’s been a big year for 21st-century watchmaking’s most disruptive character, seeing in the 20th year of Hublot’s literal ‘Big Bang’, which turned on its head what a fine watch could represent, back in 2005. Since then, this unapologetically ‘statement’ chronograph - thanks to a brilliantly modular construct of the brand’s titular ‘porthole’ - has served as a crucible for Hublot’s new adventures in sci-fi. Most excitingly, the world's only scratch-proof gold alloy.

84383 | £34,900

TAG HEUER

Monaco Chronograph Stopwatch

Reviving the utilitarian, primary-coloured aesthetics of original ‘Heuer’ stopwatches, which kept precision time on motorsport throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, this knowingly named ‘Stopwatch’ brings the thrill of the racetrack to the wrist, framed by black DLC-coated titanium, and harking back to 1969, when - in cahoots with Breitling - Heuer launched one of the world’s first self-winding ‘stopwatch’ watches: the iconic Calibre 11 chronograph, powered by a micro-rotor sunk into its actual stopwatch mechanism.

84598 | £8,600

BULGARI

Octo Roma WorldTime

Rome’s favourite jeweller isn’t wedded to the Italian capital: as well as this carboncoated Batmobile of a watch being powered by BVL 257 mechanics coming out of Bulgari’s network of Swiss ateliers, the 24-hour functionality invites you to straddle the world’s every time zone. Meanwhile, at its heart lies a very French motif: the ‘Clous de Paris’ hobnail finish to the matte black dial, reducing glare and enhancing the Super-LumiNova glow of its markers.

77997 | £8,650

TUDOR

Black Bay Pro

Any doubts as to Tudor’s right to No.1 spot as ‘Now That’s What I Call Modern Dive Watchmaking’ be dashed; you can’t get purer - or more useful - than this cool, clean, calm and collected celebration not only of Rolex’s sister brand’s formative years kitting out French military frogmen, but of its recent strides in progressing the real-world relevance of a mechanical watch. With built-in GMT function, five-year warranty, underwater flexibility and chronometer precision, do you need anything more? The pricetag seals the deal.

84437 | £3,730

CHOPARD

Mille Miglia "French Edition"

For 35 years, the heart of Chopard and 1000 Miglia have been ticking (revving?) as one. As the official timekeeper of the world’s most famous regularity race for classic cars (and by default the holder of ‘longest car-llaboration in watchmaking’ accolade) Chopard has created yet another high-octane beauty, born of Karl-Friedrich Scheufele’s personal passion for vintage cars and motor racing, and echoing the MM’s repute as ‘the most beautiful car race in the world); limited to 100 pieces.

85218 | £9,280

HUBLOT

One Click Steel Pink Watch

Hublot’s USP is big and bold and this timepiece certainly delivers on both those fronts. Well, it does on the bold, because surprisingly this One Click is a diminutive 33mm. But what it lacks in cas diameter it makes up for in personality. The combination of rubber strap and sparkling spinels is a classic Hublot high/low pairing and the “one click’ in its name refers to the brand’s innovative strap change system. 84374 | £14,200

CHOPARD

Happy Fish

As if the Happy Sport couldn’t get more joyful, Chopard has now added a gem-set fish to its trademark dancing diamonds. Swimming against a backdrop of turquoise mother-of-pearl, which is textured and looks like the play of light in water as seen from the deck of a yacht. The indices and crown are Chopard’s proprietary recycled Lucent steel and the rose gold used is all ethical. It is a gorgeous watch that is certain to make you smile.

84843 | £7,100

BULGARI

Serpenti Seduttori

It’s hard not to be seduced by the sensuous curves of this particular Serpenti. The scales have been softened, the snake’s head here is figurative rather than life-like and the yellow gold pairs beautifully with the diamonds set into the bezel. Inside that curved case lies the BVS100 Lady Solotempo in-house automatic movement, featuring an oscillating mass intricately decorated 84128 | £34,300

TAG HEUER Carrera Chronograph

There is something wonderfully audacious about taking a watch named after one of the most dangerous pan-american races ever run and turning it a lovely shade of blush and putting diamonds on the dial and around the bezel. But it works. The colour dials down the masculine energy of the chronograph, the 39mm case means it isn’t too delicate and the domed glass box sapphire crystal bring a fabulous retro energy to the piece.

85219 | £7,500

ZENITH

Chronomaster Sport Rainbow

Rainbow-set watches have been having a renaissance in recent years version of Zenith’s 18kt white gold Chronomaster illustrates why. Firstly, there’s the kaleidoscope of sapphires, whose colours, when set in contrast to the black lacquered dial, really sing. Second is the combination of excess and practicality. This is a Chronomaster so it is powered by the renowned automatic El Primero 3600 movement, the watch includes a column-wheel chronograph that measures and displays time with 1/10th of a second precision. Not just a pretty face.

84099 | £100,000

TUDOR

Black Bay 54 Lagoon Blue

Winter days will have you dreaming of summer nights when you look at the dial of this watch. Tudor has dubbed this shade “lagoon blue”, and it is not wrong. It’s the colour of sea in a secluded cove you’d see in a White Lotus resort. To hammer home the point that Tudor wants you to think of this as your ideal holiday wearer, the dial texture is sand-like and the bezel mirror polished to look like the surface of an unruffled pool glinting in the sunlight.

84679 | £3,950

GUCCI

Model 2000

Wearing white in winter is an absolute baller move. It says you don’t care about muddy puddles, it gives “my chauffeur is waiting outside”, and it looks great. Which is why this Gucci should be on your Christmas wishlist. At 24mm it’s delicate, the decision to just have markers at thrre, six, nine and 12 means the dial isn’t overwhelmed, and diamond-set bezel brings a touch of luxury to preceedings.

84613 | £2,530

HANDS ON

At Chopard everything is done in house, including blending its own gold. We go behind the scenes to find out more. Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

Chopard is an interesting brand. It was founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard, but exudes the aura of a much younger marque, one that wears its horological knowledge lightly and uses it as much in the service of serious timepieces as it does for fun. One thing people might not know about this exceptional brand is that it creates its own gold.

In a small, and somewhat unremarkable, room filled with machines, you’ll find Paulo. Paulo and the room he occupies domain and is, to a certain extent the heart of everything Chopard stands for. This is its foundry Chopard’s own gold is created. “Some people see me as an alchemist because I transform gold,” he says. “We produce all our own alloys, and that’s really important for Chopard. It allows us to ensure our gold is 100% ethical.”

Metals mixed by the lab next door, all sourced from artisanal and smallscale mines in Peru and Columbia, who participate in the non-for-profit Swiss Better Gold Association or Fairtrade certification schemes are poured into the furnace. The gold, whichever colour it is, yellow or pink, is melted at 1,000º, cooled in large concrete blocks. It is

then rolled like pasta dough; threaded, with surprising ease, through a machine that slowly compresses the block by Paulo and his colleague over 50 times until it is at the desired width. “Some people say it is repetitive, but it depends on the person and the emotion the gold bar brings,” says Paulo. “Even though it is physical, it is something you have to love. If you don’t you can still do it, but the emotion is missing.”

It is this emphasis on care and attention, bolstered by emotion that encapsulates Chopard and the team here at its manufacture in Meyrin, just outside Geneva. The atmosphere is surprisingly convivial. In the Poinçoin de Genève workshop they huddle around microscopes admiring each other’s work or asking for advice rather than sitting in factory-style production lines. “It's a real team effort. We help each other a lot,” grand complication artisan, Christophe, explains. “We all have different perspectives on what's happening, and it's important to talk so we can continually improve.” As much as the Scheufele’s these watchmakers are each other’s family.

Chopard has always been a family business. Louis-Ulysse passed his pocket watch and chronometer business

to his son Paul-Louis and then grandson PaulAndre. Having no family members to pass it on to, the Maison was bought from Paul-Andre, in 1963, by Karl Scheufele III, a German jeweller and watchmaker who was anxious to obtain a watch brand to help establish himself in Switzerland. Son and daughter Karl-Friedrich and Caroline joined in the 1980s and became co-presidents in 2001. Which brings us to Meyrin, the manufacture into which Chopard moved in 1974 and where its signature free-floating, or dancing, diamonds was conceived.

Unlike most manufactures, it is a building that feels as if it is made up of separate workshops each with its own identity and cast of characters. Upstairs from the lobby is a space where art from KarlFriedrich’s personal collection is on display. From there it’s on to the bracelet assembly department where people single-handedly undertake every stage of the process from assembly to polishing out any imperfections. Chopard is especially proud of keeping this particular part of the process in house, using its jewellery experience and translating it into making watch bracelets. The Maison has recently upped the ante with its new, and more complicated, Alpine Eagle design meaning that having this department in house is even more valuable.

Chopard hasn’t always operated a vertical

manufacture. Until 1997 it was using movements sourced from the Swatch-Group owned F.Piguet. Keen to elevate Chopard to the same horological echelons as Patek Philippe, in 1993 KarlFriedrich set up another manufacture in Fleurier in the Val-de-Travers region of Switzerland. For a time, Michael Parmigiani was involved in making prototypes for this new venture, and current Rolex CEO Jean-Frédéric Dufour was allegedly convinced by Karl-Friedrich’s mother to quit his career in banking and help set it up. Karl-Friedrich wanted a movement that would be thin but modular so other complications could be added to it. He wanted a longer power reserve than normal, which would require two barrels, but with a small rotor so you could appreciate the beautiful finishing because, on top of all that, he wanted to be able to stamp it with the Geneva Seal or Poinçoin de Genève –a certification issued by the Canton of Geneva for exceptionally finished and decorated timepieces. For three years the new Fleurier manufacture worked this.

Unveiled in 1996 and placed in the inaugural watch of the L.U.C collection in 1997, the 1.96 put Chopard on its path to being considered a serious watchmaker and embodied Karl-Friedrich’s personal philosophy that the Maison should always strive to “add some kind of useful innovation in

every movement we set out to do”. You can see this philosophy at play in the 2000’s Quattro – a fourbarrel movement with a nine-day power reserve – and in the L.U.C Full Strike and Full Strike One, which uses sapphire-crystal chiming technology. Both watches contain a gong made from a single piece of sapphire crystal and are examples of how Chopard constantly strives to blend the contemporary with the traditional. This is illustrated perfectly in the synergy between the cutting-edge machinery and computers in the control centre where the watches are tested being put through precision, power reserve, water resistance, and, if they have it, chronograph running tests, and the quiet calm of the Ateliers Metiers D’art where a husband-and-wife duo, both creatively tattooed with undercuts, apply straw marquetry to dials or engrave tiny figures into cases. Julie’s particular interest is creating volume with her works of art, whereas Davide specialises more in straw marquetry and micropainting. “With a watch you usually have such little depth to work with we use different finishes such as micropainting with patina to help create depth,” she explains. This duo are responsible for such creations as the Maison’s L.U.C Full Strike Dia De Los Muertos with its grinning multi-coloured gemstone calaveras and intricately carved bezel and case made from 18kt 100% ethical gold, which brings us back to Paulo and his bars.

“We produce all our own alloys, and that’s really important for Chopard. It allows us to ensure our gold is 100% ethical.”

Maybe this is why Chopard, as a Maison, has a charm that others do not because artisan crafts and new technologies exist side by side. Most manufacture tours are cold, often impersonal experiences, where watchmakers are viewed like zoo animals through glass windows. Touring Chopard you feel the collaboration that goes into every piece. Every person is proud to be there, to be a part of these creations, from those working on haute complications to Rodeline, the polishing artisan, who started at Chopard at 15 and, in her words “really fell in love with the job” and can’t see herself doing anything else. As Paulo says “There’s a part of me in every bar [that goes into making a Chopard watch]. We’ll be gone one day, but these noble metals will be here forever.”

Chopard watches and jewellery are available online and at ROX Glasgow.

WHEELS IN MOTION

TAG Heuer has cemented its relationship with motorsport with a 10-year deal, one that interestingly includes sponsorship of the all-female F1 Academy. We look at why TAG Heuer’s deal has come at the right time and speak with F1 Academy class of 2025 member and brand partner Aiva Anagnostiadis Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

It was probably the worst-kept secret in motorsport and watches. This January after 10 years on the sponsorship podium, Rolex handed over the steering wheel to TAG Heuer in a multi-brand deal allegedly worth $1bn over 10 years. Also on the podium, alongside TAG Heuer is Louis Vuitton and LVMH’s wine and spirits business Moët Hennessy – presumably one of those will be used for post-race celebrations and the other enjoyed in the VIP area.

This all makes a lot of sense for TAG Heuer. Its associations with the sport run deep. In the 1960s it was the first Swiss watch brand to enter the world of motorsport and has been associated with it ever since. In the 1990s, its relationship with McLaren’s F1 team and Ayrton Senna made TAG Heuer one of the most desirable watch brands on the planet, while recently it has sponsored F1’s Oracle Red Bull Racing, worked with current reigning champion Max Verstappen and been official watch partner of the Monaco Grand Prix. It not just the association with motorsport that makes this a canny move for TAG Heuer. For years now it has been positioning

itself as the young buck of the LVMH stable, which aligns perfectly with F1’s new demographic, which has been brought to the sport courtesy of Netflix’s Drive to Survive. It hit the streamer in 2019 offering a behind-the-scenes look at motor racing and has completely transformed the sport’s audience. F1 is now the most followed sport in the world according to data from the data and analytics agency, Nielsen Sport. It has a global audience of 1.5bn, one in three fans are under 35 and 41% are female. The stats on who is watching Drive to Survive are similar to those watching the F1 season. According to a 2023 YouGov Sports whitepaper, 31% of the audience are 18–29-year-olds and of the 6.8m total viewership 46% are women. And all those eyeballs will now be looking at a very large TAG Heuer logo. Interestingly, TAG Heuer is also putting its sponsorship weight behind the future of the sport, especially a female future in the sport, with F1 Academy. Set up by Scottish former professional racing driver Susie Wolff in 2022 and launched in 2023, F1 Academy is an all-female single-seater racing series designed to identify, develop, and propel female

drivers toward the pinnacle of motorsport. The series, which has been turned into seven-episode documentary series also on Netflix, with a second series on the way, provides a structured platform, increasing accessibility to professional racing and creating a talent pipeline for higher levels of competition. As well as sponsoring the Academy, TAG Heuer has also partnered with an individual driver, Aiva Anagnostiadis, a 17-year-old who started karting at age six and was part of the Alpine Rac(H)er Academy Programme in 2023and who aspires to become the first Australian woman in Formula 1. We sat down with her to find out more.

You started go karting at six. Do you remember how you felt at six years old the first time you put your hands on that wheel?

I think I was pretty nervous, really. I think I was like, really scared, to be honest, but then I was quite confident at the same time, like I was like, I want to give this a go. Let me have a go.I remember going at the grid, and my mum and dad were supposed to keep the throttle kind of 50% just for my first time. They forgot. I went straight at the grid, foot flat to the floor. I made it around, I think, two corners, and I was straight into the barrier.

One of the things that gets brought up about you a lot is that this was obviously inevitable for you because of your parents. Did you feel it was inevitable, or did you feel like you had some agency?

I wanted to be a dancer. I did contemporary, jazz; I did cheerlead for a little bit. I was a national champion, doing all that and karting. There was time when I was at nationals in the Gold Coast in Australia, and I had a jazz and contemporary championship to win, and we won them, and then I had to win the karting championship. I had that on Sunday morning. I had to qualify so I got a red eye that morning. I got to the go-kart with two minutes to spare before qualifying, and hopped in and went out and drove, and then my parents sat me down, and they're like, “we can't do this anymore. You have to pick one or the other.”

You're now at F1 Academy in a team. How do they put you together? Do you did you know them before, from the circuit?

High Tech is very well-known team. I actually went to the High Tech factory when I first moved to the UK. So, at the start of this year, to arrive at High Tech to be a part of the team was a bit of

surreal moment. Thing is, in motorsport, you have to know people to get the job secured. Tom Williams, my coach, he's been with me since I was seven and he’s been working his bum off to get me in the seat as well, and then I had to do the job in the car. Then F1 Academy put me with a team and an incredible sponsor –TAG Heuer.

Did you know anything about the brand before they became your supporter?

Actually my grandpa loves watches. He told me about TAG Heuer, about in their involvement in motorsport. I've never really worn a watch, but now I do not take it off, I love it. It is such an iconic brand with so much history, especially their relationship with Ayrton Senna, one of my racing idols, and it’s great to be a part of that history.

F1 Academy has been set up to get more women to that point of racing in F1. Do you think that women don't see racing or even like racing adjacent roles such as, being in the pit, as a career? Do you think they don't see it as a career for them because male principals don't hire women? Or is it a visibility thing, you can't be what you can't see?

I think it's probably both. I think the teams have their own thing, which, is if they've got a boy to do a good job, then they think why do we need to go to another avenue? But also, for the girls taking a step into a paddock that's full of boys, it's quite intimidating. I also think girls just don't see that they can go be an engineer or a mechanic or anything in Formula One pits, even a journalist involved in motorsport. In the last two or three years, it's advanced,

quite a lot. I went home to the karting community, and I hadn't been at the track in a good three years, and I went to a race meet, and I saw, nearly 10 girls on this grid out of the 40 boys. When I was at home racing, I was the only girl, so it is improving quite a bit. I think it's going to take a while to get there throughout the Formula categories. I think for Formula One, it's going to take five or six years [to see a change]. Hopefully having F1 Academy on Netflix will improve that, and with Drive to Survive being incredible in terms of female engagement, it just opened up the understanding to the sport.

If everything goes to plan, and you do end up on that trajectory to Formula One. You're saying five, six years? How long it will take for us to see you on the grid?

To get through F2 you do a couple of years in F3 maybe two more to get to F1. It depends on the driver. But this also has to line up with sponsorship and money. It’s like any other sport. You have to get a sponsorship behind you as well. As a female especially because, I don't think there's the funding there to help a girl get racing moments, and it's probably the only thing stopping her. I wouldn’t have this opportunity if I didn't have TAG Heuer. We need this to be able to get the funding to keep going in the sport. And I think that's what people don't actually understand. That yes, we do all this makeup, and we do the shows, and we do the whole “hoo ha” behind the scenes, but we're all working our butts off to get the sponsors on board to keep going in the sport.

TAG Heuer watches are available online and at ROX Newcastle

BANG… WITH A

And definitely not a whimper, 20 years ago Hublot’s Big Bang burst onto the watch scene. We celebrate its revolutionary couple of decades. Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

Hublot’s brash gamechanger has turned 20. It almost seems like a typo. How could a watch now so representative of a brand, its calling card, not have been there from the beginning. It was there from someone’s beginning though – horological legend and maker of marques John-Claude Biver. Biver met founder Carlo Crocco and by 2004 he was installed as CEO. A year later came the Big Bang. A sign that the new CEO wasn’t afraid of making bold statements. This was a reinterpretation of the first-ever Hublot from the 1980s but bigger, more daring. This was to be the model with which Hublot could experiment. And it certainly fulfilled that brief. In its first year it won the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve (GPHG) for Best Design, while subsequent models pushed the boundaries of what it was possible to do with a timepiece but always with a grounding in traditional skills. The Unico Calibre 1242 that powered the Big Bang started out life as a flyback chronograph; a modular movement with an, unusual at the time, 72-hour power reserve and a modular construct meaning that increasingly complex complications such as tourbillons, rattrapantes, and minute repeaters could be added without needing to redesign the base calibre.

“The Big Bang represents a revolution in watchmaking, a perfect union of tradition and modernity,”says CEO Julian Tonare. “While remaining rooted in the values of luxury watchmaking, such as artisanal quality and attention to detail, Hublot has managed to position the Big Bang as a disruptor within an industry that has traditionally seen little design innovation. This is what sets us apart.”

What set the Big Bang apart was also that its designers took risks. The concept of the Art of Fusion – the unusual combinations of materials, the collaborations with people outside the world of watchmaking, all things common in watchmaking now – started with the Big Bang. Take 2007’s Mag Bang with a case, bezel and the bridges and baseplate of the movement all made from a superlight material called Hublonium; an alloy created by Hublot comprising aluminium and magnesium. A year later it decided to cover the entirety of the case and bracelet in 493 invisibly set baguette diamonds earning it another GPHG in the process, this time for Best Jewellery Watch. The innovations continued. In 2011, it brought out the world’s only scratch-resistant gold. Known as “Magic Gold”, it contains ceramic, which counters the usual softness of this precious metal. After the tonneau-cased

Spirit of Big Bang came out in 2014 (possibly as a way to steal back some market share from Richard Mille), it launched a Big Bang case, that could be produced in relatively substantial numbers, in sapphire crystal in 2016. Then it did something deemed impossible in watchmaking and unveiled an entire case in red ceramic.

This was a reinterpretation of the first-ever Hublot from the 1980s but bigger, more daring. This was to be the model with which Hublot could experiment.

The 20th anniversary collection celebrates all these milestones. There’s 100-piece Red Magic to commemorate that red ceramic breakthrough; one all in black for 2006’s All Black – a monochrome piece, limited to 500 pieces. The Magic Gold has been revived, there is a trio of tourbillons with cases in blue and colourless sapphire and that red ceramic again. Two cathedral minute repeaters one with a tourbillon and a chronograph, the other with an integrated tourbillon movement. If that wasn’t enough there is a “Master of Sapphire” set — an extremely limited collection with just five sets available worldwide. Each set contains five iterations of the Big Bang MECA-10, showcasing different coloured cases in transparent sapphire, water-blue sapphire, deep-blue sapphire, purple sapphire and a final neon-yellow one in a material called SAXEM. It stands for “Sapphire Aluminium oXide and rare Earth Mineral”, and is a transparent, robust, and brilliant material developed by Hublot for watch cases. It's an alloy of aluminium oxide, similar to sapphire, but with added rare earth elements like thulium, holmium and chromium and allows you to make cases with a sapphire-like appearance but in more vibrant colours.

All this newness has been showcased in a campaign headed up by Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette, who apparently still lives in her lateowner’s Parisian apartment, taken care of by his housekeeper. It’s a fittingly outre campaign for a similarly unconventional collection.

HUBLOT watches are available online, at ROX Glasgow and ROX Edinburgh

160, NOT OUT

Zenith marks its 160 year anniversary milestone with a trio of chronographs that, between them, tell its rich history. Words by Laura McCreddie-Doak.

Precision, pilots, chronographs, Charles Vermot hiding the tools and the plans for the El Primero movement in the attic at Le Locle. There are many ways to tell the Zenith story but maybe it is worth looking at the story Zenith is trying to tell about itself through the watches it has chosen to celebrate its 160th anniversary. The G.F.J is the star of the show with its platinum case and resurrected Calibre 135. This movement was produced between 1949 to 1962 in two distinct versions: a commercial variant, and an

“O” iteration made solely for observatory chronometry competitions. The Calibre 135-O received over 230 chronometry prizes, an absolute record in the history of watchmaking. That tells part of Zenith story, however it has also selected a trio of chronographs in Zenith blue. A trio that has obviously been chosen for what it represents in terms of the brand’s rich history from accompanying aviators to setting accuracy records.

Zenith watches are available online and at ROX Glasgow

NEW ADVENTURES IN AVIATION

PILOT BIG DATE FLYBACK

Cartier may have the accolade of creating the first pilot watch for Albert Santos-Dumont in 1904 but Georges Favre-Jacot saw the potential in pilot-ry back in 1888. There is a reason no other brand is allowed to put the word “pilote” or its English equivalent “pilot” on its watches and that is because, in 1888 and 1904 respectively, FavreJacot patented both of them. Louis Bleriot was Zenith’s equivalent to Santos-Dumont. A French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft, which he flew with a Zenith on his wrist across the English Channel in 1909 – the first person to attempt this feat. Despite Favre-Jacot’s obvious passion for aviation, “pilot” didn’t appear on a watch until 1957; even then it

Despite Favre-Jacot’s obvious passion for aviation, “pilot” didn’t appear on a watch until 1957; even then it was a dress style rather than one with a chunky bezel and onion crown

was a dress style rather than one with a chunky bezel and onion crown. It also disappeared very soon after. From 1968-1972 it resurfaced on watches for the Italian Airforce before coming to land in 2012 when Zenith unveiled its first real pilot’s watch –the Pilot Montre D’Aéronaut Type 20. It was limited to 250 and had a case that was a wrist-drowning 57.5mm. In another nod to Zenith’s history, it was powered by the hand-wound calibre 5011k, which was designed for a pocket watch and which set a record for accuracy at Neûchatel Observatory in 1967; just one of the 1,565 timepieces that won awards for accuracy since Zenith started submitting its movements for testing in 1896. From 2012 on the Pilot has stayed in the collection, even getting an El Primero at one point. 2023’s redesign toned down the hypermasculinity and for the 160th it comes with that aviation essential – the flyback chronograph. An addition that improves accuracy, something essential for a making cockpit calculations. And it has “pilot” on the dial, naturally.

THE CONSTANT COMPANION

DEFY SKYLINE CHRONOGRAPH

The first watch to have the Defy name, or rather Defi as it was then, was a pocket watch from 1902. However, it was this original’s robustness that was to define future timepiece with the same name. The modern Defy comes from 1969, the same year as the El Primero, Zenith’s high-frequency, self-winding chronograph capable of measuring to 1/10th of a second. It was an integrated bracelet steel sports watch with a 14-sided bezel and muscular case, which earned it the nickname “bank vault” or “coffre fort” in French. Before you shout “Royal Oak” this was in 1969, three years before Audemars Piguet and seven years before Patek Philippe. As with most things in the world of Swiss watchmaking, quartz killed it off and it wasn’t until 2006 that Zenith decided to resurrect the Defy. This second chapter was more brash, this being during the Thierry Nataf era, one defined by oversized watches, flashy

The first watch to have the Defy name, or rather Defi as it was then, was a pocket watch from 1902

designs and crazy material combinations. For the Defy this meant precious metal cases, tourbillons and rather confused-looking dials bursting with complications. This era was quietly retired and the Chronomaster took over as the flagship design. Then in 2017, CEO Julien Tonare revived it as the king of high-frequency chronographs. Powered by the El Primero 21 Calibre 9004, it took the impressive 36,000vph and multiplied it by 10 making this the first watch to measure and display elapsed times to 1/100 of a second with a central chronograph hand that completed a revolution once a second rather than the standard once a minute. This set up the Defy as the watch to house Zenith’s timekeeping experiments, such as the 2019 Defy Lab, which had a wafer-thin silicon oscillator that served as a single-piece replacement for the sprung balance (balance wheel, balance spring, and lever). 2021’s Extreme added a tourbillon into the mix, while the Skyline, with its coloured graduated dials and smattering of diamonds brought some sartorial panache to proceedings. The Defy of 2025 is a symbol of Zenith continued exploration of accuracy.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

CHRONOMASTER SPORT

Technically the Chronomaster is a new collection, however, it can trace its roots back to 1969 as the watch that housed the El Primero. Then known as the Ref.384, it had a panda dial, tonneau case and mushroom-style pushers. The watch though that had the most influence was the Ref. 386. This was the first to use the tricolour sub dials that was to become synonymous with the El Primero – an outward signal of what was under the dial, with blue for the minute counter at three o’clock, grey for the hours counter at six o’clock, and silver for the running seconds at nine o’clock. This iconic combination was resurrected in 2021’s Chronomaster Original and Chronomaster Revival A384.

Technically, the Chronomaster is a new collection, however, it can trace its roots back to 1969 as the watch that housed the El Primero. Then known as the Ref.384 it had a panda dial, tonneau case and mushroomstyle pushers.

The modern origins of the Chronomaster start in 1994, and it was notable for a design feature that now seems standard among brands that take pride in their movements – the sapphire caseback. It was a signal that Zenith, following the quartz years, the nixing of El Primero by the US owners and Charles Vermot’s ingenuity in hiding the plans and tools, was back making mechanical chronographs and were proud to be doing so again. The Chronomaster Sport, first launched in 2021, also wears its mechanical prowess as a badge of honour. This is evident in the etched, graduated 1/10-second scale, which allows you to read the centrally mounted chronograph seconds hand, which completes a revolution every 10 seconds, against the bezel when stopped. Turn it over and you’ll see the El Primero 3600, which an enlarged blue column wheel so you can watch it in action when you deploy those pushers. It a fitting tribute to Zenith’s commitment to the chronograph.

COINING A CLASSIC

Fabrizio Buonamassa-Stigliani reveals to Alex Doak how Bulgari is doubling down on the Roman jeweller’s most iconic design - a design so good, they named it twice.

Gianni Bulgari captured the most contemporary trends of watchmaking in the Seventies,” enthuses Fabrizio Buonamassa-Stigliani over coffee at the Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, west London.

“After I was made watch designer I was lucky enough to visit him at home, and it hit me: ‘Now – now! – I understand the Bulgari brand. He had art deco, marble and Bauhaus all happening in the same room.

“If you can combine all of that, then… well, you have the eclectic genius of Bulgari design.”

Which goes some way in explaining how Gianni Bulgari created a truly iconic wristwatch in 1975 (before falling out with his brothers and leaving the family firm in the Eighties). A watch imagined during an already far-out era of design, which was not only limited to just 100 pieces, but only available as a gift if you were one of Gianni’s VVIPs, and featuring not hours, minutes and seconds hands but instead: an LCD digital screen.

By 1977, the industry’s designer du jour, Gérald Genta had transformed this ‘BVLGARI ROMA’ into ‘BVLGARI BVLGARI’ and a legend was coined. Literally, as Nathalie Marielloni, vice

curator at La Chaux-de-Fonds' Musée international d'horlogerie (MIH) explains:

"When Genta reimagined Gianni Bulgari's digital Bvlgari Roma as the analogue Bvlgari Bvlgari in 1977," she says, “within just two years he had turned it into a watch that used the brand logo not just as decoration, but as ‘structure’; wrapping the house name twice around the bezel, like the engravings on ancient Roman coins.”

“For a time, in my opinion,” Marielloni continues, “that kind of design – strong, graphic, very ‘1970s’ in fact – may have felt dated or even a little out of fashion. But today, those same codes are enjoying a real revival.

“The Bvlgari Bvlgari fits perfectly into today’s renewed taste for bold, sculptural watches. It was never just flashy, it was visionary.”

Finely engraved with a special anniversary marking, two new 50thanniversary versions feature a green ‘Verde Alpi’ dial, finely sheered from pure marble, and set into a yellow gold case. Two others, in rose gold, showcase similarly diaphanous marble dials –the larger crafted from deep blue ‘Blu Incanto’ marble, while the smaller version in icy blue ‘Azzurro Infinito’ guise.

1975

Gianni Bulgari’s LCD-screen original of 1975, gifted to 100 VIP clients

Gérald Genta’s 1977 sketch, reimagining Gianni’s digital one-off as the icon-to-be Bulgari Roma, then Bulgari Bulgari

2025 1977

Bvlgari Bvlgari 50th Anniversary 38mm limited edition with with with ‘Blu Incanto’ marble dial, £15,500

2025

‘Bvlgari Bvlgari 50th Anniversary’ limited editions in 38mm and 26mm diameter with ‘Verde Alphi’ green marble dials, £15,500 and £11,700

The typography of the BB’s monumental bezel –especially with that ‘V’ instead of ‘U’ – was already well-established in Bulgari’s brand identity back in 1975. Taking its cue from excavated ‘denarii’ and ’sistertii’, it was introduced during the renovation of the jeweller’s spiritual home on Via Condotti, in 1934. As Buonamassa notes: “This is why it takes twenty years to build a new underground station in Rome: you start digging and you find Nero’s villa!”

Just as Roman emperors would stamp their names onto coins in demonstration of their power, ‘BVLGARI BVLGARI’ was stamped unapologetically onto the flat bezel of the 1977 commercial roll-out. It was unprecedented, with an irresistible braggadocio that could only come from Italy.

Via Condotti 10 may have been Elizabeth Taylor’s favourite stop-off while shopping the Italian capital (Richard Burton remarking of his 1963 visit to the Condotti shop to buy his wife a ring: “I introduced her to beer, and she introduced me to Bulgari.”) but ever since Signori Buglari then Genta’s 1957 and 1977 oddballs, the biggest moves and shakes haven’t been in Italy’s capital. They’ve been at Bulgari’s horological hothouses, over on the other side of the Alps (one acquired from Genta’s own high-end concern in Le Sentier in 2000).

Each 38mm version of the 50th anniversary pieces are powered precisely by Bulgari’s Solotempo automatic movement, the BVL 191 calibre, assembled in-house at a state-of-theart manufacture in Le Sentier, nestled deep in Switzerland’s horological heartland, up in the Jura Mountains.

As for the marble dials, they aren’t from Italy’s world-famous Carrara mines, as you’d presume.

“The Bvlgari Bvlgari fits perfectly into today’s renewed taste for bold, sculptural watches. It was never just flashy, it was visionary.”

The new dials have – like ancient Roman coins – been excavated from beneath ‘Motor Valley’ as Buonamassa says. In other words, the EmiliaRomagna region of Italy, where it’s clearly not just all about the Imola circuit, or the respective homes of Ferrari, Maserati or Lamborghini.

There lies a pleasing symmetry with the designer’s formative years at Fiat’s own ‘centro stile’.

“Marble is in Bulgari’s DNA,” Buonamassa explains, “as much as it is everywhere in Rome! Our first dial in marble was a one-off for the 2024 Only Watch auction, and it’s no surprise that the reaction from our customers would lead to a core collection. Only, it’s taken six years to develop a way of cutting real marble from that Octo Finissimo Tourbillon dial’s 0.6mm down to a wafer-thin 0.2mm.

“The rejection rate in crafting the new Bvlgari Bvlgari dials is, of course, as high as you’d imagine…”

It’s worth it: the Bvlgari Bvlgari in 2025 feels more ‘Bulgari’ and monumentally ‘Roman’ than ever. A chip off a block of the old Pantheon, as much as a marble coffee table in Gianni’s villa.

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A TO ZENITH

Switzerland's pioneer of in-house ‘manufacture' watchmaking is celebrating its most precise, not to mention record-breaking '135-0' calibre on its 75th anniversary, during Zenith's overall 160th. Far from being a rheumy-eyed throwback, 2025’s ‘Calibre 135’ revival (launched inside the ‘G.F.J.’, named after founder Georges Favre-Jacot) speaks of renewed brio at the sharp end of 21st-century chronometry. Words by Alex Doak.

When you think of classic Zenith movements, it’s the world’s-first self-winding stopwatch-fitted wristwatch, 1969’s El Primero that ‘springs’ to mind. But back when ‘observatory’ precision competitions were the way brands were judged – gruelling multi-day trials lasting 30-50 days – Zenith had its ‘135’, made from 1949 to 1962.

Zenith’s top watchmaker Ephrem Jobin realised in the Forties that, if the minute wheel was relocated, there was more room for the balance wheel. The freer the balance wheel is to oscillate the better the accuracy: plus or minus to fractions of a second, where modern ‘COSC’ chronometer certification permits a deviation of +4/–6 seconds per day.

Zenith won 2,333 chronometry prizes pre- and post-war, with special 135-O iterations (the ‘O’ is for ‘observatory’) winning 235 alone, including – between 1950 and 1954 –five consecutive first prizes in the wristwatch category; a feat unrivalled today.

The writing was on the wall three years ago: 10 135-Os were restored as an ‘Observatoire’ limited edition with Finnish superstar Kari Voutilainen, sold by Phillips at auction with proceeds going to breast-cancer charities. The 135’s revival was nigh…

Beneath the sapphire-crystal ‘box’ dome, a dial in three differently texture parts – all in the brand’s new signature cobalt blue, symbolising, together with the star logo, Zenith’s recognition of the night sky as humanity’s ultimate precision clock face.

Housed in the anniversary ‘G.F.J.’, the new and improved 135 keeps the movement’s original design and architecture

The new 135’s bridges are distinguished by their ‘brick’ guilloché finishing, inspired by the distinctive façade of red and whitepainted bricks of the Zenith manufacture in Le Locle village, which proudly spell out the letters ‘G.F.J.’, the initials of its visionary founder of 1865.

A signature feature of the 135-O, the double arrow-shaped regulator allows for precise adjustment, while a stopsecond mechanism has been added to set the time to the exact second.

Oscillating at a stately 2.5 Hz, the balance wheel features regulation screws and a ‘Breguet’ overcoil promoting symmetrical, concentric ‘breathing’ of the hairspring, at the ticking heart of things.

The balance staff is now protected by spring-mounted jewel settings. The movements are regulated to be precise within +/-2 seconds per day, and their precision is officially certified by the COSC.

INTERIOR MOTIVES

The passenger’s seat is an increasingly pared-back, yet creative space for marques to make their own, with their designers exacting jewellers’ levels of precision and finish. Words by Alex Doak

Automotive PRs will tell you that the Wild West is being won on the pinballmachine LED-taillight frontier. But they’re wrong.

The luxury-car interior in 2025 is the future of the motoring experience. While grilles are cowled in plastic and crumple zones average-out any hope of a rakish A-pillar, the automotive ‘living’ experience is more in the picture than ever. It’s being shaped more than ever by shifting consumer expectations, but also advances in materials and technology, plus a more circumspect weighing-up of the very notion of what ‘luxury’ should be, let alone how it should feel like behind the wheel – or indeed behind the driver.

All a far cry from one’s valet simply selecting the correct oil for one’s Connolly leather seat back.

Whether you have a resolutely combustive V8, an on-the-fence PHEV hybrid, or pious (for now) all-electric four-wheeler, the chances are that your dashboard is now reduced to the equivalent of a widescreen iPhone.

So, beyond those fiddly ventilation outlets and ubiquitous glove compartment (do your kids even know why it’s called that?) car interiors designers and engineers alike are faced with a challenge, but also an opportunity. They have a blanker canvas than ever to extend their expression of the brand, bringing the ‘in’ into coherence with the ‘out’ more than ever.

The traditional jumble of dust-gathering nobs, buttons and wheels are being smoothed out of the equation, and, now, from a customer perspective there’s more reason to look beyond – or rather, through – that artfully crimped, aerodynamic bodywork gleaming from the forecourt into the second-most valuable living space that you own.

There’s no better time to admire your wheels

from where it actually counts: driving it, or being driven in it.

From Fiat to Ferrari, this interior revolution is being rendered by a stronger adoption of recycled, plant-based, or otherwise lower-impact materials. Upholstery from ocean plastics, fabrics made using recycled nylon, ‘vegan’ leather alternatives, and FSC-certified woods are becoming more common.

Manufacturers are also rethinking traditionally luxurious materials. For example, Rolls-Royce is using ‘obsidian ayous’ – recycled wood composite, in the Phantom Series II. This and other lightweight composites are not only helping the planet, but helping your fuel outlay, whether measured in gallons or volts.

As for the ‘in-cab’ experience itself, despite the seeming homogenisation, the driver its more immersed, with more agency than ever. AI-based assistants, voice and touch interfaces, ‘smart cockpits’, and even avatar-style interactions are being introduced. Take for example, the Audi E5 Sportback: integrating an LLM (‘large language model’) assistant via large screen-based controls.

Customisable ambient lighting, more legroom (especially with no transmission tunnel), better sound insulation (though, sadly for pedestrians, louder ambulance sirens)… the luxury car interior is more of a sanctuary than ever.

As for the future? Try augmented reality for a start: experts predict windshields that transform into AR screens, displaying navigation, speed, and even real-time hazard warnings. Or what about holographic interfaces over done-anddusted touchscreens? Gesture-based controls and holograms really could replace physical dashboards entirely.

It’s all enough to make you forget why you got into the car in the first place.

FLYING CARPET

The Ghost Series II is plain proof of Rolls-Royce being the Rolls-Royce of automotive interiors. Materials everywhere are top-tier; touches like fibre-optic ‘Starlight Headliner’ ceiling that mimics the night sky are especially cosseting as well as witty, enhanced by Rolls-Royce’s upgraded 1,400-watt 18-speaker audio system, enhanced by cavities in the aluminium bodywork. What’s more, Rolls-Royce’s exploration of textiles continues with ‘Duality Twill’, a new rayon fabric made from bamboo grown in Le Jardin des Méditerranées on the Côte d’Azur – neighbour to Sir Henry Royce’s former winter home, Villa Mimosa. Because of course.

FLYING FIRST-CLASS

Short of joining the queue for a ‘Mulliner’ bespoke job on a Flying Spur, Crewe’s finest combines the highest hand-craftsmanship with sustainable materials with Bentley’s infinitely more fun Continental GT Speed (main image), voted by Robb Report’s ‘Best of the Best’ for Best Interior. Its cabin uses sustainable oxblood leather, 3D-printed rose gold and ‘Koa’ openpore wood veneer whose grain is satisfyingly tactile. Extra Mulliner-sourced details like lambswool rugs and gradient-tone stitching or even embroidery mean you may as well sell the house and move in.

S EXPRESS

Mercedes-Benz’ S-Class flagship sedan retains its reputation: lush materials, metal and wood trim, exquisite finish, and one of the better dual-screen tech implementations. From stitching to fully (confusingly, almost) adjustable seat comfort, ambient lighting… the most opulent version means that regardless of performance beneath the bonnet, even the most dyed-in-the-wool petrolhead will still opt for the rear (Pullmann velour-wool option) seat.

THE IX FACTOR

It might not be BMW’s finest hour from the outside, but as far as the ‘large premium SUV’ sector goes, the German’s iX might even have the edge on Range Rover, once you’ve hopped inside that barbaric bodywork. Spacious, modern, tech-driven but still lavish and comforting. Large screens, high-quality switchgear and excellent build quality as standard.

GADGET MAN

Are you a fan of all things technical and technological? Here are our top picks of the latest and most exciting gadgets to put you one step ahead of your fellow man.

TAG HEUER | CONNECTED E5

The fifth generation of TAG Heuer’s Connected line arrives with a sharper AMOLED display, longer battery life, and a more intuitive OS powered by Google Wear. Wrapped in Grade 5 titanium and ceramic, the E5 straddles the line between horological heritage and cutting-edge tech. It’s the smartwatch for men who still want their wristwear to feel like Swiss precision rather than a gadget.

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AUDIO-TECHNICA | Hotaru Turntable

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VUITTON | Horizon Light-Up Speaker

Leave it to Louis Vuitton to turn a speaker into a sculpture. Inspired by the brand’s Toupie bag, the Horizon Light-Up dazzles with colour-cycling LEDs and 360-degree sound. At £2,590, it’s more objet d’art than living-room essential, but that’s the point — it’s a status symbol for the man whose playlists deserve couture.

For the vinyl connoisseur who appreciates artistry as much as audio fidelity, Audio-Technica’s Hotaru is a collector’s dream. Inspired by Japanese fireflies, it pairs glowing design cues with impeccable engineering: a belt-drive system, carbon-fiber tonearm, and audiophilegrade cartridge. Limited numbers mean this isn’t just a turntable — it’s a future heirloom.

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HUBLOT | MP-17 Arsham Splash

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ULTRAHUMAN | RARE Smart Ring

Smart rings are already sleek, but Ultrahuman’s Rare edition goes a step further: crafted in 18-karat gold and platinum, it’s jewellery first, biometrics second. The ring tracks heart rate variability, sleep cycles, and recovery, while sitting discreetly on your finger with a serious dose of opulence. Health tech has never looked this decadent.

Arsham's first wristwatch design for Hublot, the timepiece is a wearable sculpture with Arsham's creative direction dripping from every fluid curve. The compact 42mm case size has been made possible through the integration of Hublot's new, smaller Meca-10, an in-house manual-wind movement that can be seen through the dial opening and sapphire caseback.

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GIFTS FOR HIM

You may not need convincing to spend that cash on a flashy must-have, but just in case, here’s a selection of treats to tempt you.

TUDOR Pelagos Titanium 83179 | £3,680

LEON DORE Unisphere Hat

£80

Logo Socks

£45

ROX M ROX Cross Earring 85076 | £260

Interlocking Ring 85116 | £350

HUBLOT Classic Fusion 81998 | £8,400

GG Marmont Bracelet 83870 | £310

FRANCIS KURKDJIAN OUD Satin Mood £145

Vetiver Kashmir Candle 75937 | £55

TAG HEUER Formula 1 Solargraph 84390 | £1,650

Resurrection Duet £103

Aluminium Chronograph 81525 | £4,580 ROX Classic Cufflinks 63863 | £125

ROX

GUCCI

MAISON

JACQUEMUS

AIMÉ

OLIVER PEOPLES Green Bio-Nylon R-2 Sunglasses £425

AESOP

BULGARI

TOM FORD Classic Leather Card Holder £290

GUCCI

GIFTS FOR HER

From glistening diamonds to the latest fashion trends and accessories, we promise this will be your go-to gift guide this season.

TAG HEUER

Aquaracer Professional 200 82575 | £2,800

ROX

R+CO Television Shampoo + Conditioner £58

ROX

Miss ROX Bracelet 84244 | £700

LOEWE Logo-intarsia Scarf £550 ROX Miss ROX Bracelet 85101 | £570

ROX

Miss ROX Earrings 84268 | £320

ROX Miss ROX Earrings 83332 | £580

Miss ROX Necklace 76366 | £840

Miss ROX Ring 81789 | £680 GUCCI G-Timeless 82680 | £1,230 ROX Miss ROX Necklace 81776 | £980

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DIOR Oud Ispahan £255

| £55

FENDI

TOM FORD

Color £49

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