Vanity Fair UK - 10.2019

VANITY FAIR ON TIME AUTUMN 2019

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Contributors

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“Water Portfolio”

p. 79

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“Depth and Breath”

p. 54

“A Brief History of Time”

p. 62

“Who Dares Swims”
p. 68

Founder of award-winning

travel specialist, Wild

Frontiers, Jonny has

adventure in his blood.

Driving a motorbike around

Africa, walking through India,

Pakistan and Afghanistan and

riding a horse along the Silk

Road gave rise to three travel

books, one Discovery

Channel film, numerous

articles and his adventure

travel company Wild

Frontiers. In these pages,

Jonny adds an elite military

string to his bow.

Deputy Editor of British GQ

since 1998, Bill Prince

previously enjoyed an

illustrious career in the music

press, working on both NME

and Q magazines. Overseeing

GQ’s watch coverage and the

annual GQ Watch and Jewellery

supplement, he is no stranger

to the intricacies of

timepieces. For The Water

Issue, Bill explores the

superhuman world of

free-divers and the watches

they trust to measure those

all-important minutes below

the surface.

Bill

PRINCE

Jonny

BEALBY

Benjamin

BECHET

A self-proclaimed “eclectic”

photographer, Benjamin

Bechet transitions seamlessly

from portraits to big reports;

from studio staging to

culinary photography.

Working extensively for the

press and various NGOs, his

photographs are published

and exhibited in France and

abroad. It was on home

ground, or rather in home

waters, that Benjamin shot

cover star Fabien Cousteau—

grandson of Aqua-Lung

inventor Jacques Cousteau.

Fred

S. MANDELBAUM

Fred S. Mandelbaum, a.k.a

@watchfred, is a tech

entrepreneur and avid

collector of vintage

chronographs with an

Instagram following of more

than 50,000. Having been

approached by Breitling CEO

Georges Kern, Fred now

supports the brand’s heritage

research and advises on their

historical re-editions. What

better person to uncover the

trade secrets of the Breitling

SuperOcean?

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