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Dinner and Giving

After the match, the guests made their way to a marquee for dinner. The marquee was in place as Coworth Park is finishing off the main house. Given that the number of guests was in the order of 300, the meal was a wonder. Catering for 300 guests or so and yet to produce restaurant quality food showed a chef and kitchen that was capable of superb meals. Coworth Park is a worthy addition to the Dorchester Collection of hotels and once open I am sure will prove a success.





The marquee was elegant and serene. At one end of the marquee was a work bench from Jaeger LeCoultre that showed watchmaking, and in the display cabinets were a range of the latest watches from the manufacture.





After dinner, Claire Milford Haven gave a heart rendering speech about the James Wentworth Memorial Fund (otherwise known as ‘J’: www.jwsmf.org James, her son, had committed suicide after a minor operation. The decline in his mental condition was so swift that no one realized until it was too late. Out of the sorrow and heart break, Claire set up a Fund to help increase awareness and provide funding towards young people’s feelings of despair and isolation.



To aid the ‘J’ Fund, an auction was held in which Jaeger LeCoultre and other event sponsors gave a number of prizes on which individuals could bid. Thanks to a highly entertaining auctioneer the bidding was swift and increased rapidly. A generous chunk of change was raised for the Fund. The evening was rounded off with drinking, at which the Perrier Jouet champagne followed, and if you so wished, cocktails from the Mr.T look-a-like barman were available courtesy of Maggie’s nightclub.

It was a wonderful event; attended by Royalty and celebrities, as well as fellow Purists and Jaeger LeCoultre collectors. It was corporate hospitality at its most thoughtful and productive: it was giving back to both a sport in whose history Jaeger LeCoultre are immersed, but doing so in a way that will pay forward to younger generations to come; that will help all young people in some form, and present the sport of polo to a wider audience. Jaeger LeCoultre have come a long way in their sponsorship of events and this is the Manufacture showing their true ‘Reverso’ nature in giving back, but also paying forward.

Andrew H