The Rake

THE RAKE embraces and fosters a revival of classic gentlemanly style and sophistication. It caters to a diverse group of distinguished men who feel disconnected from modern fashion trends and wish to reconnect with timeless standards of elegance.

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What to look for at the 2025 Monaco GP

2 weeks ago | therake.com | Charlie Thomas

Somehow, he pulled it out of the bag. On his final run in the last session of qualifying, Michael Schumacher secured a surprise pole position, ensuring he started first at one of the calendar’s toughest circuits. It was the Monaco Grand Prix weekend of 2012, and it was Schumacher’s last pole of his career. It was a blistering lap around the brutal street circuit, which remains a jewel in F1’s crown nearly 100 years after it first featured in 1929.
Moving the Needle

3 weeks ago | therake.com | Nick Scott

When it comes to seeking examples of renewal amid the arbitrary tweaks, Watches and Wonders can take the needle/haystack metaphor to confounding new levels. All too often, R&D departments, focused on transformative outcomes in the long term — and perhaps unwilling to steal too much thunder from their future selves, or their successors — limit themselves to the odd, homeopathically small change to existing models here and there.
Glide along: Mercedes-Maybach SL 680 Monogram Series

3 weeks ago | therake.com | Charlie Thomas

There’s a lot to like about the Mercedes-AMG SL 63. Sport-Leicht purists might argue that it doesn’t fall in line with classics like the 190 SL of the 1950s, and the Pagoda of the ’60s. These were the cars that defined the series, and were lightweight, drop-top cruisers designed to wallow along highways and carve gently through mountain twists. The SL 63 is designed to destroy them. It is a V8 muscle car with aggressive looks and 577hp.
Fight or Flight

3 weeks ago | therake.com | Simon de Burton

The D-Day landings of June 6, 1944 could never have succeeded without the plethora of military machines that helped get boots on the sand in Normandy and onwards into occupied France.
Breguet Looks Back and Forth in its 250th Anniversary Year

4 weeks ago | therake.com | Justin Hast

Everybody who loves watches wants the very best for Breguet. It's no secret that in the last few years, the Swatch Group have not been honouring the illustrious brand that had previously given us the level of attention and love that we collectors believe it deserved.
Tome Raiders

1 month ago | therake.com | Tom Chamberlin

The Rake is a place of truth and integrity, which is why we felt it was high time we recommended a reading list that will help you go beyond the words in this magazine. Books are the first indicator of a civilised society, and this list is a warranty in the process of creating a civilised man. Oyster Perpetual Submariner This is the first book in what will become a series of coffee-table tomes on the different families of Rolex.
It's Complicated

1 month ago | therake.com | Justin Hast

The Ingenieur has pedigree, historical significance and style in abundance. It has filled a void IWC had for decades — that of a sports model with bracelet and modest proportions that could accommodate complications further down the line. Its evolution can be traced through three key phases. When it debuted in 1955, the Ingenieur was designed as a professional watch for engineers and scientists working in environments with strong magnetic fields.
Toasting Victory

1 month ago | therake.com | Georgie Fenn

Sir Winston Churchill was a man of many characteristics, but what I enjoy most, when reading about him, was his frankness. “My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite the smoking of cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and, if need be, during all meals and the intervals between them,” he once said. There was no beating around any bushes.
Follow Suit: Peter Lawford

1 month ago | therake.com | Nick Scott

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.” So quipped the man born Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford in London in 1923, referring to a Hollywood career arc that reached its apogee in 1960, when he starred with his fellow Rat Packers in the Ocean’s 11.
Speaking Mandarin: The Civil Servant

1 month ago | therake.com | Tom Chamberlin

The Civil Servant cannot decide which part of his job title — the civil bit or the servant — is more important. In the world today, it is the definition of a thankless task to be a civil servant. In the days of Sir Humphrey and Yes, Minister, the idea was that the civil servant was like a nanny to those with power: they were presented as the smarter, safer hands tending to the public’s wellbeing compared with the politicians who put themselves up for power.