Richard Mille

Richard Mille was founded in 1999 by the French executive Richard Mille. Initially Richard Mille was started in a collaborative effort with Audemars Piguet. Richard Mille watches are known for their high prices and for the celebrities who endorse them.

Among the notable watches are the Richard Mille RM001, Richard Mille Tourbillon RM 008, Richard Mille, RM 056, Richard Mille RM 056 split seconds. The RM 008 features a tourbillon caliber with chronograph split seconds, torque indicator, power reserve indicator and manual winding mechanism.

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Delving Into Different Designs

This article was originally published in the Design 2023 Issue of the WatchTime print magazine. More than just a bit different, these new watches venture light- years beyond everything we thought was normal. Musical: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Self-Winding Music Edition Audemars Piguet transforms music into a colorful lightshow with this exciting new version...

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Jul 8, 2024 by Alexander Krupp

It’s Time – WatchTime New York 2024 Tickets On Sale Now!

After an incredible show in 2023, WatchTime New York, the premier collector’s event in North America, is set to return to Manhattan from October 18th to 20th, 2024. WatchTime New York 2024 promises to be even more spectacular, with the show marking the 25th anniversary of WatchTime and bringing together the world’s finest watchmakers, timepieces,...

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Jun 20, 2024 by WatchTime

Green Rambles: Are You Already Part Of A Tribe?

This article is from the WatchTime Archives and was originally published in 2022. It is no secret that there are brands in the watch industry where the demand for their timepieces is far greater than the supply. Rolex, Patek Philippe, and Richard Mille are often the ones mentioned in relation to this. The focus was...

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May 28, 2024 by Martin Green

TIMEPIECE TIMELINE

The Evolution of the Men’s Wristwatch: A Decade-by-Decade Guide

World War I coincided with the breakthrough of the wristwatch. New and trailblazing designs followed in each subsequent decade. From the WatchTime archives, here are our highlights, from the beginning of the 20th Century to the present day.

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May 22, 2024 by Ruediger Bucher

Buy Watches Securely, Directly from Collectors with Grailzee

Grailzee, a premier online auction house and marketplace specializing in luxury watches, is establishing itself as the international benchmark for trust and authenticity in the industry. Offering a curated selection of over 50 prestigious watch brands, including Audemars Piguet, Rolex, Richard Mille, and Patek Philippe, Grailzee has overseen more than 10,000 successful watch transactions in...

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May 7, 2024 by WatchTime

FEATURE

Progress Through Technology: 10 Tourbillon Watches with High-Tech Designs

Audi’s "progress through technology" motto also applies to the importance of the tourbillon for watch design, because this eye-catching complication greatly enhances a timepiece’s visual appeal. From our Special Design Issue, here are 10 highly technical tourbillon watches.

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Apr 6, 2024 by Alexander Krupp

Richard Mille RM 07-04 Automatic Sport: The Athletes Watch

The approach of Richard Mille when it comes to sports watches has always been an interesting one. Instead of aiming at its clients, they develop their watches for professional athletes. The most exciting part of this is that most of them don’t need to wear a timepiece when they want to break records and win...

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Mar 16, 2023 by Martin Green

Richard Mille Goes Rock ‘n’ Roll: The RM 66 Flying Tourbillon

Richard Mille is a champion of avant-garde design, using bright colors, unusual motifs, and eye-catching materials to create what many consider to be horological gems. The brand is now banging into the world of rock and roll in its newest ultramodern design, the RM 66 Flying Tourbillon. On the exterior, the RM 66 Flying Tourbillon...

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Feb 23, 2023 by Caleb Anderson

At just 1.75mm, Richard Mille Breaks the Record for Thinnest Mechanical Watch

Just three months after Bulgari unveiled the world’s thinnest watch, the 1.8mm Octo Finissimo Ultra, Richard Mille presents a new world record with the RM UP-01 Ferrari. Crafted from titanium grade 5, the watch has a mind boggling thickness of just 1.75 millimeters. Notably, its hand-wound movement was developed in a collaboration with Renaud &...

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Jul 6, 2022 by Sabine Zwettler

Haute Utilité: Spotlighting Richard Mille’s Most “Practical” High Complications

The difference between Richard Mille and every other watch manufacturer that works with brand “ambassadors” can perhaps best be summed up in a visual from the sporting world of tennis. Picture a Grand Slam final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Federer’s left wrist is bare; his signature Rolex is hastily strapped on only in...

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Jan 20, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

Wake-Up Call: Five Watches With Mechanical Alarms

They’re not as sexy as tourbillons or as impressively complicated as perpetual calendars, but mechanical alarm watches possess one of the more useful complications for a weary traveler or an overworked executive needing a reminder about that big board meeting. In a way, it’s curious that more watch brands haven’t embraced them. Here are five that are on the market now.

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Nov 22, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Richard Mille Earns More Racing Stripes With RM 029 Automatic Le Mans Classic

Richard Mille’s timekeeping partnership with the Le Mans Classic, the world’s most famous racing event for historic cars, began with its inception in 2002. The biennial event, like so many others, has had its schedule disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic restrictions: last held in 2018, it was canceled in July 2020 and recently pushed again from...

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Aug 3, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Richard Mille Shifts Into A Higher Gear with RM 65-01 Automatic Split-Seconds Chronograph

Richard Mille has built much of its brand on combining highly sophisticated micromechanical technology with ultra-modern materials from the automobile and aerospace industries, and its latest chronograph-equipped timepiece, the RM 65-01 Automatic Split-Seconds Chronograph, continues the tradition. It is also, the company claims, the “most complex timepiece ever to leave the Richard Mille workshops.” Some...

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Jan 17, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Rafael Nadal Won the French Open Wearing the Richard Mille RM 27-04 Tourbillon

Sports partnerships for watches are nothing new, though it’s not every day an athlete claims the highest title in his or her field while wearing the sponsoring watch — let alone one that retails at $1,050,000. Yet Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal did just that, wearing the Richard Mille RM 27-04 Tourbillon Rafael Nadal and...

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Oct 17, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

Richard Mille Introduces New Grey Cermet Material in RM 11-05 Automatic Flyback Chronograph GMT

Richard Mille long ago earned its spot in the upper echelon of firms bringing new and avant-garde materials to watchmaking — from ceramics to forged carbon to quartz TPT and beyond. With the use of its new, exclusive grey cermet material in the new RM 11-05 Automatic Flyback Chronograph GMT, the automotive- and aerospace-influenced brand...

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Jul 9, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Revolution Re-Imagined: Richard Mille RM 33-02 Automatic in New Carbon TPT Case

Richard Mille joined the slimmed-down watch revolution in 2011 with the launch of the RM 33-02, whose svelte 6.3-mm-thick case housed a skeletonized, self-winding caliber only 2.6 mm tall. Just in time for the dawn of a new decade, the company has unveiled a new, even more streamlined version of the RM 33-02 in a Carbon TPT case.

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Jan 1, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

TREND PIECE:

Orange is the New Black: Our 10 Favorite Orange (Non-Dive) Watches of 2019

As my colleague Mark Bernardo pointed out during WatchTime’s post-Baselworld Round Table earlier this year, 2019 has often felt like it is “more about new colors than new complications.” Diverse colorways have no doubt been trending upwards in recent years with blue, green, and brown all making major headway onto the wrists of watch collectors. One...

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Nov 21, 2019 by WatchTime

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Richard Mille teams with Airbus to Launch the RM 62-01 Tourbillon Vibrating Alarm ACJ

Richard Mille and Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) launch a new watch, featuring an all-new grand complication. The RM 62-01 Tourbillon Vibrating Alarm ACJ is the most complicated watch Richard Mille has ever created.

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Oct 21, 2019 by WatchTime

NEWS

Ice for the “Iceman:” Introducing the Richard Mille RM 50-04 Tourbillon Split-Seconds Chronograph Kimi Räikkönen

To commemorate this year’s Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix, Richard Mille will be releasing the limited-edition RM 50-04 Tourbillon Split-Seconds Chronograph Kimi Räikkönen released in partnership with the famed F1 world champion it’s named for. This new watch, limited to 30 editions, pays homage both to the legacy of Kimi “Iceman” Räikkönen as the 39-year-old...

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Sep 24, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

FEATURE

Time in the Clear: 7 Watches with Sapphire Cases

Sapphire crystals are a common element in luxury watches, but entire watch cases made of sapphire have been and remain a rarity in the watch world. However, several brands including Hublot and Richard Mille have recently joined the sapphire-case party, each in their own distinctive fashion. Here are 7 notable sapphire-cased watches.

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Jul 16, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

WHILE WE WERE AT BASELWORLD...

Richard Mille Finds Its Missing Links With New Carbon TPT Bracelet

Another brand announcement that hit WatchTime’s editorial desks while we editors were on the ground at Baselworld comes from Richard Mille, The haute horlogerie brand (and, for one more time in 2019, SIHH participant) took its pioneering approach to new materials to a new level with an all-new bracelet made of Carbon TPT, which it...

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Apr 11, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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