TAG HEUER X THE RAKE AND REVOLUTION CARRERA CHRONOGRAPH ‘BLUE DREAMER’
Gunter Sachs and Brigitte Bardot on the Riviera.
“Ciao, come stai? Tutto bene. Fammi un Martini secco, per favore! Grazie!” If you’re bellowing this through a loudspeaker to the staff at the Capri Palace as they watch in slack-jawed awe as you — still resplendent in your silk shantung dinner jacket and soft-collared tropical-weight Marcella evening shirt — enact a perfect 10-point swan dive from the skid of your helicopter hovering above the pool, in homage to Gianni Agnelli’s famous entrance to the legendary Hôtel du Cap, then this watch is for you.
If this summer you plan to live libidinously to an internal soundtrack of Renato Carosone’s and on a steady diet of Aperol Spritzes, Cohiba Talismáns, vitamin B12 injections and the open-mindedness of dewy-eyed haut monde demoiselles, then this watch is for you. If you long for the era when the rakes of the Riviera — Agnelli, Porfirio Rubirosa and Aly Khan — battled for the affections of the most prominent beauties that glittered along the southern coastline of
