The Rake

A HIGHER CALIBRE

o paraphrase Vesper Lynd, there are watch collectors and watch collectors, and Auro Montanari is the latter. and Mr Porter collaborated, and the reverence in which he is held was palpable in the room — from the joy of old friends to the tension of hard-working auctioneers who want to impress people such as Auro. However, like the most chic among us, he didn’t seem to notice; as my mother says, those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from The Rake

The Rake3 min read
Letter From The Editor-in-Chief
It is hard to fully express the madness involved in founding a magazine dedicated to craftsmanship during a global financial crisis. There was not a number-crunching financier or even a money launderer anywhere in the world who would have backed it,
The Rake4 min read
Pout Of This World
To quote the savant that is Will & Grace’s Karen Walker: “Coulda, shoulda, Prada.” It’s always a fanciful exercise to wonder what would have happened if certain actors had not turned down parts that later became celluloid legend. Before we tell you w
The Rake3 min read
Russian Roulette
The Enlightenment-era sage Immanuel Kant asserted that revolution was an inevitable step towards a higher ethical foundation for society. It was an erudite socio-historical interpretation — at the risk of dragging bathos into darkly flippant realms —

Related Books & Audiobooks