Lifestyle (w/e 7/10/26)

Menswear has quietly re-embraced the small watch. This year's fashion-week wrists in Milan and Paris were dominated by 36-39mm cases, vintage Datejusts, and dress watches on leather straps. The era of the oversized dive watch as default is over. If you bought a 44mm chronograph in 2022, you are now, technically, a period piece. CHRONO24

The goblin shark was filmed alive in the deep sea for the first time. A 125-million-year-old "living fossil" caught on camera in its natural habitat near the Tonga Trench, 700 metres deeper than the species had ever been recorded. Proof that the ocean is still keeping secrets in an era of supposedly total visibility. SCIENCE DAILY

The best new hotel openings of July span San Sebastián, Hanoi, Munich, and a reborn San Francisco icon. Wallpaper's edit includes a Beaux-Arts cinema turned landmark hotel in the Basque country and the return of the Huntington in San Francisco, once frequented by Truman Capote. Proof the design-hotel arms race has not slowed even slightly. WALLPAPER

Tesla's driverless robotaxis went live in Miami with nobody in the front seat. No safety monitor, no human fallback, camera-only, from day one. It is either the most audacious bet in transport or the most dangerous cost-cut, depending on who you ask, and Florida's summer rain is about to settle the argument one way or the other. HNGN