The Spitfire sits across a plain polished bar, wings angled, with hand-painted roundels in red, white and blue on each wing. The rest is left clean: no pattern, no texture, just a rhodium-plated finish that holds its shine against a dark tie.

• Rhodium plated finish
• Hand-painted roundels on the wings
• Fold-over back
• Two-year quality guarantee

Wear it around two-thirds of the way down the tie, catching the shirt front as well as the blade, so the tie stays where you put it through the day. The bar is long enough to sit properly across a standard tie, and the aircraft does the talking.

It arrives in a presentation gift box, which makes it easy to hand over to an RAF man, a pilot, or anyone who grew up with the sound of a Merlin engine overhead.