Nicholas Foulkes, Financial Times Journalist Profile

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5 days ago | therake.com | Nicholas Foulkes

A few years ago I wrote a book called Swans, a reference to Truman Capote’s coterie of couture-clad, mid-century muses — Marella Agnelli, Babe Paley, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith, C.Z. Guest and the enigmatic Gloria Guinness, among others. Anyone who watched last year’s Feud: Capote vs the Swans will have become familiar with them as they gossiped, shopped and lunched their way round the New York of the Le and La restaurants: Le Pavillon, La Côte Basque, and so on.
Marc Newson wraps up the America’s Cup

1 week ago | ft.com | Nicholas Foulkes

In the hands of industrial and yacht designer Marc Newson and publisher Taschen, a book charting the history of the America’s Cup, the...
Why cigarette cases are smoking hot

1 week ago | ft.com | Nicholas Foulkes

The year is 1962. We find ourselves in the richly gilded Louis XV-style salons of Les Ambassadeurs Club in Mayfair.
The bracing brilliance of the Bugattis

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Nicholas Foulkes

It is the sort of perfect sun-dappled afternoon in the British countryside that inspired “Adlestrop”, Edward Thomas’s famous poem of...
Is the Cohiba Behike 58 the cigar of the year?

1 month ago | ft.com | Nicholas Foulkes

It is hard to think of many good things that came out of the Cold War. About the only example that comes to mind is Cohiba.
Why Patek Philippe excels at women’s watches

1 month ago | watches-of-switzerland.co.uk | Nicholas Foulkes

Patek Philippe was little more than a 19th century start-up when it scored its first major international coup in 1851, acquiring Queen Victoria as a customer. While attending the Great Exhibition, she purchased for herself a Patek Philippe, a dainty pendant watch in blue enamel. Moreover, she started something of a tradition.
The chronograph watch: 'You can use it to time a furlong, a boat race, a lap of a Grand Prix or, for that matter, an egg'

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Nicholas Foulkes

Few complications have achieved the enduring relevance and utilitarian elegance of the chronograph. Conceptually, it is like having a stopwatch on the wrist, one that can measure elapsed time for anything up to 12½ hours. You can use it to time a rally stage, a furlong, a boat race, a lap of a Grand Prix or, for that matter, an egg. This versatility explains why almost every brand offers a chronograph.
With Taos, two masters are making the best watch-dials in the business

2 months ago | ft.com | Nicholas Foulkes

Even the most dedicated of watch collectors could be forgiven for not knowing the name Olivier Vaucher.
The timepieces making headlines at Watches and Wonders 2025

2 months ago | ft.com | Nicholas Foulkes

This year’s Watches and Wonders fair in Geneva is the biggest so far, with 60 exhibiting brands (up six on last year) and more public...
A first look at the new Rolex Land-Dweller

2 months ago | ft.com | Nicholas Foulkes

The epithet “Dweller” is one that Rolex uses sparingly. First there was the Sea-Dweller of 1967, a watch for saturation divers.