Christmas gift ideas for men

From fathers to brothers to lovers, we run through some smart ideas for Christmas presents for the men in your life.

Custom velvet slippers

With added Spitfires.

£185 via Bown of London


Personalised BBQ wicker-basket tool set

Never again will your loved one have to deal with the shame of owning a non-personalised wicker basket BBQ tool set.

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from £54 via The Colourful Garden Company


Elie Bleu Casa Cubana stainless steel cigar cutter

Mind those fingers!

£225 via ABASK


Navy Regency velvet Nehru jacket

The jacket is £1,450. The confidence required to pull it off is priceless.

£1,450 via Favourbrook


Four-ply cashmere shawl cardigan in hunting green

What your man will desperately want to change in to when he gets home and takes off that Nehru jacket.

£675 via Luca Faloni


Engravable pointer instrument

For the avoidance of doubt, this is actually a mouse for your computer. Just a very posh one.

from £230 via Lunar Artefacts


Edwardian collection: Mach III

Not sure how authentically Edwardian a multi-blade safety razor can ever be, but it’s a nice colour for sure.

£216 via Truefitt & Hill


Whiskey smoker

A surefire winner for the strangest present of Christmas is this mini-blow torch that comes with wood chips and a stand and a sort of thing to put on top of your glass to make your whisky taste smokier. We like it without even knowing why.

£30 from Connoisseur Creations


Electric C line foldable bike

Brompton made better.

Brompton, from £2,900.


Barisieur tea & coffee alarm clock

We’ve re-used this on our gifts page for years now, and still nobody has taken the hint.

Joy Resolve, £299.


Cigar case

Because merely keeping them in their little metal tubes wouldn’t be right.

Bosquet Paris, £375.


Lambswool Argyle vest

Somewhere at Pringle is a genius who has resurrected the jumper designs that we laughed at in the 1980s, donated to charity shops in the 1990s, and are now buying back in the 2020s. For six hundred quid.

Pringle of Scotland, £595.


Cartridge salt and pepper grinders

For when you want dinner to go off with a bang.

Forwood Design, £165.


La Pavoni esperto edotto lever coffee machine

Imagine a coffee machine. Now, scratch that image from your mind and imagine a coffee machine invented by Jules Verne.

£1, 649.95, Smeg — shop.smeguk.com


Kovered waxed holdall

The sort of luggage you’d imagine Indiana Jones lobbing into the hold of an airship, this gorgeously made bag perfectly straddles that tricky line of making an effort without making too much of an effort.

£105 from Kovered