The High Roller's Guide

We write for the 1% of the 1%. Not aspirationally. Accurately. The watches reviewed in this guide cost between $26,000 and $1.1 million. The hotels start at €6,000 a night and ascend from there. Our readers already know these numbers. They do not come to us for price discovery.

They come because the information available elsewhere is inadequate. Watch reviews are written by people who have never worn the watch. Hotel reviews are compiled from press trips where everything goes wrong in the opposite direction — too perfect, too stage-managed, too anxious to please. The insider knowledge — which table is worth fighting for, which dealer will actually help you, what the concierge can do that isn't in any brochure — lives in conversations between people who have been in the rooms. We have been in the rooms.

There are no affiliate links on this site. There is no commission arrangement with any watch brand or hotel group. We receive no manufacturer loans in exchange for coverage. We do not offer advertising. Every opinion expressed here is the opinion of someone who spent their own money, or their own professional credibility, to arrive at it.