“Is it East versus West/Or man against man?” That was the question memorably posed by Survivor in the smash hit from the Rocky IV soundtrack, Burning Heart. And it’s pertinent to this week’s celebrity death match, too. Representing truth, justice and the American way, in a fetching pair of shorts bedecked with stars and stripes, is President Donald Trump. Glowering with menace in the red corner, meanwhile, is Vladimir Putin, who’s still nonplussed over the fact that this showdown can’t be settled by his favoured medium ( judo and/or electoral manipulation). Instead, this clash of the superpowers will be fought out in a horological fashion as Time+Tide casts its critical eye over the watches of two of the most powerful men in the world. 5 watches from Donald Trump’s watch collection Donald Trump has been famously touchy about the size of his hands ever since Graydon Carter, the former editor of Vanity Fair magazine, described him as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in Spy magazine way back in the early 1990s. “Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer,” Carter wrote in a 2015 editor’s letter in Vanity Fair. “To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is…
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