He wouldn't want to trade the Netherlands for Denmark anymore, but Danish-Spanish football analyst Kenneth Pérez will never get used to bitterballen and beer: "In Denmark, sociability is defined differently. You...

OK, you want your watch to keep ticking, even when you don't wear it for a few days. And you also want no one to dare touch it, without your explicit permission. So how about a poisonous snake, as a treasure guard.

In the category of indestructible solidity, this special edition from German company Sinn scores high marks. The U1 DS is a diving watch that has been verified and certified to a diving depth of no less than 1,000 metres.

If there is one watch with a face of its own, it is Jaeger-LeCoultre's Reverso. Always recognisable by its distinctive flip-over case, once devised to protect the watch from the rigours of a rough game of polo.

Some partnerships are so obvious that you wonder why they were not started much earlier. Like the one between Porsche and TAG Heuer. They are both directly linked to motorsport, love speed, are innovative and also have a product in their portfolio that bears the same name: Carrera, named after one of the world's most dangerous open road races that was run between 1950 and 1954 in Mexico.