The joy of having a watch collector in your life is that you always know what to buy them for a birthday or a Christmas present. The downside is that you might not always be able to lay your hands on the £317,000 necessary to buy the Girard Perregaux Vintage 1945 Jackpot tourbillion wristwatch with full fruit machine functionality. By comparison, the £2,700 for a pair of Girard Perregaux cufflinks depicting the brand’s highly recognisable tourbillon bridge assembly seems eminently more affordable.

The past 10 years have the seen the wristwatch become a lifestyle product, and part of that transition has been the growth of watch-related accessories. There once was a time when the watch collector was a marginal figure for whom one would buy a loupe, a set of watchmaker’s screwdrivers and perhaps a pair of white gloves with which to handle particularly precious timepieces, while gloating, Gollum-like, over them.