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Under The Cuff: Serge Gainsbourg
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Under The Cuff: Serge Gainsbourg
Gainsbourg has gone on to become a folk hero in popular culture, widely regarded as one of the most influential and significant figures in contemporary music. Remembered almost as much for his antics as for his music, his life, like his first date with Birkin, was a scandalous, hedonistic circus. From his excessive alcohol consumption and smoking – after suffering his first heart attack aged 45, Gainsbourg insisted on taking two cartons of Gitanes cigarettes to the hospital (as well as a Hermés blanket, believing the hospital’s would be unsatisfactory) – to releasing an album with his then 12-year old daughter, Charlotte, called Lemon Incest, illegally burning a 500 franc note on live TV in protest of France’s high taxes and telling Whitney Houston (again on live TV) that he wanted to “fuck her”.
Throughout his earlier years Gainsbourg also extensively wore a discreet round dress watch with Roman indices. Upon close inspection of image number 11 below, one can see that the watch’s crystal is badly cracked, perhaps prompting the acquisition of the chronographs he went on to wear so much. Unfortunately, so far we’ve been unable to identify the piece. Any ideas as to what it is, and we’re all ears…