Richard Mille has introduced the RM 67-02 Automatic in two versions. Each is dedicated to an athlete, South African sprint champion Wayde Van Niekerk and Qatari high jump champion Mutaz Essa Barshim. The RM 67-02 is based on the RM 67-01, which has been given a sports look with its ultra-slim case, just 7.8 mm…
This is the first watch presented by Richard Mille in 2017, and it reflects the partnership that he signed with McLaren in 2016, a ten-year agreement. It is based on Richard’s authentic passion for McLaren: he watched the McLaren team’s debut in Monaco in 1966. The watch incorporates high-tech materials such as titanium and Carbon…
The RM 011 has been a successful part of the Richard Mille collection since 2007, and it has now been extensively redesigned to create this new RM 11-03. It retains all the Richard Mille looks, in line with the basic idea of feeling as if you were wearing a racing car on the wrist. It’s…
On a clear night in the mountains, you look up into the darkness and see the stars, and you know that the photons reaching your retina have been travelling through space at a speed of 186,000 miles per hour for hundreds of years. Your today is someone else’s long distant yesteryear. The mystery of time…
RIchard Mille‘s Heure Universelle was first presented in 2013 as RM 58-01. That was a tourbillon watch. This year’s RM 63-02 doesn’t have a tourbillon, but it shows the same attention for user-friendliness and easy adjustment. Its principal feature is the titanium rotating bezel, which can be used to rotate the cities ring. You simply…
It’s a quartz watch by Richard Mille, but not the sort of quartz watch disparaged by lovers of mechanical timepieces. In this instance the quartz is part of a new composite material used for the case, a combination of NTPT carbon and TPT quartz with an intense red colour produced by the red resin used…
Only a few people know just how a watch like this comes into existence. I can only guess: I imagine Richard Mille sketching something rapidly on the back of an envelope, the idea of a watch that looks like it’s burning inside, flames coming up from deep inside the movement and consuming the dial. The…
At SIHH in January, Richard Mille announced that at that show they would be presenting just two watches, with others arriving later, so as to ensure the appropriate amount of media attention for each piece. True to their word, they are now providing a first look at the RM 27-02 tourbillon made in cooperation with…
Just like the two watches by Louis Moinet and Ulysse Nardin dedicated to oil barons that I wrote about a few days ago, these two pieces, by Richard Mille and Ulysse Nardin, are designed for another “captive audience,” men who have one thing on their minds. In their press release, Richard Mille says apologetically “Erotic…
Company profile: A racing machine on the wrist. Richard Mille’s advertising slogan summarizes his approach to watchmaking: miniaturized, high-technology watches made using materials borrowed from sports and aerospace, in small numbers, at very high prices. He caters for that small – but growing – percentage of people for whom a purchase of a couple of…
At Baselworld 2015, Richard Mille presented just two watches, both for women, the Tourbillon Fleur and the RM 51-02 Tourbillon Diamond Twister, saying that more new pieces would be presented later in the year, in order to keep the right sort of attention on the watches. The RM 055 Bubba Watson Boutique Edition is one…
SIHH (19-23 January 2015) is the first major watch show of the year, and even though it includes just 16 brands, all part of the Richemont group, it provides some indications on trends and developments in the watch industry. The brands exhibiting at SIHH were A. Lange & Söhne, Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier, Cartier,…
Last year, Richard Mille presented about eight new models at SIHH, this year just two. This was to ensure that the press could dedicate the right attention to these two watches, undiluted by other pieces that will in any case be released later on in the year. And one of them undoubtedly deserves attention. The…
Not long now to SIHH, the watch fair grouping 16 brands, starting on 19 January in Geneva. It’s the first watch show of the year and so provides an indication of the latest trends. Some of the things that visitors will be wondering include the effects that the recent Swiss franc currency variation will have…
This unusual piece by Richard Mille is called the RM 053 Pablo Mac Donough, and the name is that of an Argentinian polo player, a testimonial for the brand. Pablo Mac Donough recently won the Triple Crown tournament and wore the piece during the match. It is in fact a watch designed for use while…
With about ten weeks to go until SIHH (19-23 January 2015) and a few months before Baselworld (19-26 March), some brands are already presenting their previews of watches that will be highlighted at these events. SIHH is restricted to just the Richemont Group brands (A. Lange & Söhne, Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier, Cartier, Greubel…
‘Skeleton watches’ seem perfect for Halloween, and so here is a small selection of watches on the skull theme. The motif has been around for a long time, more in art than in watches. Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull ‘For the Love of God’ is probably the best-known work on this theme, in platinum with 8,501…
This question was prompted by the new Tourbillon RM56-02 Sapphire by Richard Mille, and also by one of those ironic paradoxes floating around the Internet. If the black box on an aircraft is indestructible, why don’t they make the whole aircraft from that material? In watches, sapphire glass is used for the watch glass and…
Richard Mille is a company born at the start of the millennium and all its products have a high-tech, modernistic look and feel, using high-tech materials such as carbon fibre, titanium and other ultra-light alloys. The RM 36-01 is no exception. Called the Tourbillon Competition G Sensor Sebastian Loeb, it is built from carbon nanotubes…