Alternative methods of transport

Airbus EC135 Hermès

This ultra-luxe version of the twin-engined, 178mph EC135 helicopter, designed in collaboration with Hermès, features a customised four-place calfskin cabin, a sliding glass partition, leather-trimmed controls and Hermès-designed binoculars; ideal if you’re touching down at the races.

U-boat Worx C-explorer 3

Indulge your adventurous side by dropping 1,000ft beneath the ocean in this personal submarine. You can take two chums to ear-popping depths in air-conditioned comfort, searching for lost cities and shipwrecks, or simply re-enact scenes from Das Boot. It even has an arm attachment for collecting doubloons off the sea floor.

WLWC Croc Skate

Stepping on crocodile skin sounds like tempting fate. Roger Moore braved jumping across crocodiles in Live and

Let Die—wearing croc loafers, no less—but, in real life, this is the closest we advise to it.

The Watch Life With Curiosity crocodile-skin skateboard, designed by a beaux-arts cabinetmaker, is like riding a Rolls-royce on a half-pipe.

Penny-farthing

Outplay Jacob Rees-mogg in the Victorian style stakes by going about your business on this precursor to the bicycle. While attending Sherborne School, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin rode to his lessons on one.

Riva Aquarama/aquariva Super

Christened the Ferrari of speedboats on its launch in 1962, Carlo Riva’s Aquarama established itself as the first choice of the rich and famous. The varnished-wood body and sweeping wraparound windscreen remain iconic and, were you on the French or Italian Riviera during the jet-set heyday, you’d have spotted Anita Ekberg and Brigitte Bardot sprawled across its white and turquoise leather.

Production ended in the late 1990s, but Riva is manufacturing a new and subtly contemporary version, the Aquariva Super, with some cutting-edge accoutrements.