>>Why are men obsessed with watches?

No one needs one. They tend to be seriously expensive. There's a recession on. And yet magazines today are stuffed with adverts for power watches – and the industry is booming

An ordinary, inexpensive watch by a relatively unknown manufacturer has recently racked up millions of sales in America and is set to do the same here. Its success has nothing to do with its design, or a huge marketing campaign, but the fact that it is the timepiece currently favoured by the president of the US. The Jorg Gray 6500 Chronometer, originally designed for members of the US Secret Service, was a birthday gift to Barack Obama from a member of his security team.read more...