Clair Fane News Today

His business partner Mark Shand described them as ‘posh swagmen in linen suits, with sacks of beautiful booty, we hit the rich and famous’

Harry Fane, who has died aged 70, was for 45 years the proprietor of Obsidian, the Mayfair private gallery dealing in vintage jewellery, and a world-renowned expert on Cartier watches and clocks; in his younger days he was the business partner and travelling companion of the adventurer Mark Shand, the late brother of the Queen.