Rock Around the Clock

For me, this issue’s ‘Best of’ theme brings to mind musicians’ greatest hits compilations, like Sure, they’re desperately uncool, but you can’t help having a soft spot for Glenn Frey and Don Henley’s smooth Seventies rock combo. Come on, man. is a karaoke go-to. And that flanged-out breakdown from 3:40 onward in ? Epic. Fellow classic hits radio fave. So it should come as no surprise to learn that the legendary guitarist is one of the biggest watch collectors out there. Clapton’s passion for horology developed around the same point he was overcoming a prodigious substance abuse problem. In the late 1980s, trading one expensive addiction for another, he swapped cocaine and booze for chronograph tickers, building a vast collection with a focus on rarities from Rolex and Patek Philippe.