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Graeme Hunt

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November 2025

Initially a Jack Barclay salesman and then MD from the mid-90s, he founded his eponymous London classic car dealership in 2001

1. When you are away a lot travelling with work, you need a reliable way of waking you up. I bought this portable alarm clock from the Hermès shop in Harrods for my wife Bettina years ago, but appropriated it for myself. It is such good quality, plus is perfectly pocket-size and, being Hermès, wakes you up very politely.

2. You wouldn't recognise my briefcase as Louis Vuitton, but it's been used every day for 20 years so has been pretty good value. It happens to be the perfect size for my ancient MacBook!

3. I have three original Cassandre posters, one of them hand-signed: the Nord Express, Étoile de Nord and, probably the most famous, the Normandie. They are huge and just wonderful.

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