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Taking the hard route

Diana Krall, Klaus Doldinger, Silje Nergaard, Cécile McLorin Salvant and Maceo Parker – just some of the famous names in jazz that the organisers of the Festival da Jazz have managed to lure to St. Moritz this year. Founded in 2007 by Rolf Sachs and Christian Jott Jenny, the highest jazz festival in Europe has established itself as a must-attend event in the musical calendar.

Much like our cars, we all have a modern computer with which we execute daily duties, but have little or no emotional attachment. The term ‘retrocomputing’ describes the computing equivalent of classic car ownership: technically outdated hardware being used for recreational rather than practical purposes. The growing nature of the market that serves this hobby, driven by sentiment and a sense a nostalgia, means that rare and iconic machines have become extremely valuable, despite being theoretically obsolete.

As the video depicting Sir Stirling Moss’s historic maiden Monaco victory ended, so the guests at Credit Suisse’s Historic Racing Forum burst into applause. Exactly sixty years ago, on 13 May 1956, the young Englishman claimed his first victory here driving a Maserati 250F, and time has not dimmed his passion and enthusiasm for motorsport one bit. He regaled us with his fascinating stories and unadulterated opinions alongside his racing peers for over an hour, in what was one of the highlights of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique weekend. 

A showroom and boutique in the Fairmont Hotel