As Christmas approaches, we break with the usual format of Five Minute Fix to bring you our editorially-selected recommendations for a horological Christmas

By Chris Hall

If you are struggling to know what to ask your long-suffering relatives for Christmas (they are not going to buy you a Saxonia Thin, no matter how many hints you drop), or stumped as to what you can possibly buy the watch-obsessed man or woman in your life, let QP be your guide. As a website predicated almost entirely on the belief that the best things really do come in small packages, it is not a very long list, but it is a good one. 
A Personalised Watch Pouch

Travelling for short periods of time often requires a couple of watch options, but you don’t want to be that guy taking his whole watch roll everywhere he goes. Enter the two-watch travel pouch: this one, from Christopher Clarke for Black Bough. Handmade from Italian leather, it includes a spacer for separating two watches and two leather inserts for bracelet watches to prevent scratches to the caseback. The case is made to take one larger watch or two vintage pieces up to around 38mm across (which just so happens to be Black Bough’s stock-in-trade) and can be personalised with up to four initials. From £300, BlackBough.co.uk Some Light Reading (1)

The British Horological Institute has announced a second print run of Derek Pratt – Watchmaker, the comprehensive work on the life and times (pun intended) of one of the ...