I'm indebted to the lovely Annabel for reminding me how, for a very brief time, I owned a free, lovely watch, made by Cerutti. It was during a visit to Kuwait with some colleagues where I was presented with a beautiful watch by one of the Kuwaiti ministers. However, as I work for the BBC World Service, I could not accept this gift, which had been left on my bed in the hotel room. Annabel, so dutifully collected in all the watches that had been handed out and later presented them to the British Ambassador, who in turn raffled them off at one of his parties to raise funds for local childrens homes. (I think it came from Elizabeth Duke, anyway!)