Performance and style reign supreme in all the independent brand’s references. This upgrade flaunting an understated sporty yet ever-so timeless look illustrates this once again brilliantly.

After various limited editions, the RM 17-02 Tourbillon makes its mark in Richard Mille‘s collections with this iteration boasting the signature tonneau-shaped case now crafted in grade 5 titanium. The use of this material breathes more than just alternative esthetics into the piece. Like all the brand’s models, the watch, imagined as a whole right from the word ‘go’, offers outstanding performance and finishes. Inside deep-relief-styled openworked architecture, the blue PVD-treated and 5N gold bridges make the time data scenography dazzle. The hour and minute hands, topped with luminescent paint, hover over an hour chapter comprising solar-hued numerals. The function indicator (wind, time reset, neutral position) and the power reserve one complete this bona fide kinetic sculpture.

And, lest we forget, the manual-winding RM17-02 caliber hosts a tourbillon with variable inertia free-sprung balance wheel, and a fast-rotating barrel. This movement stands out through its energy transmission efficiency, its reliability and its shock resistance. These characteristics guarantee compromise-free performance and optimal energy regularity and distribution throughout the 70-hour power reserve duration. Its timekeeping is exemplary in all circumstances. Its dynamometric crown prevents damage to the winding stem and excessive pressure on the barrel spring. Meticulous attention is paid to every detail. The RM 17-02 Tourbillon Titanium establishes itself ever-so naturally as a paradigm of Richard Mille‘s spirit.

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With this new 50-piece limited edition, the independent brand rolls out an awe-inspiring colorful iteration. Fine watchmaking can also be full of fun!

Aerodyne. The word refers to any heavier-than-air flying machine capable of generating a dynamic force to balance its weight. Richard Mille successfully solves this mechanical equation using a holistic approach when designing a watch. Caliber and case are imagined at the same time to endow the timepiece with exceptional stiffness. What’s more, the choice of state-of-the-art material also plays its part in ensuring a top-quality result. And, the RM 21-02 Tourbillon Aerodyne blue illustrates this wonderfully well. The combination of HAYNES^® 214^®, a nickel, chromium, aluminum iron alloy with Carbon TPT^® to fashion the honeycombed baseplate boosts the resistance of the openworked architecture.

For this glamorous version, the case blends Caribbean blue-hued Quartz TPT® with Carbon TPT® and titanium. This choice emphasizes the timepiece’s sporty personality and, at the same time, improves its sturdiness. In a nutshell, it protects the time data scenography amazingly well, which showcases the tourbillon and barrel of the manual-winding movement along a vertical axis of symmetry. The torque indicator and the power reserve one (70 hours) are also center staged. Thanks to these tools, chronometry is optimized. The crown-integrated function selector lets the wearer choose their mode, winding, neutral, time-setting, meaning there’s no interference with the caliber. Once again, quality is revealed through the tiniest detail.

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This new 500-piece limited edition offers unprecedented insight into the combined world of two brands driven by no-compromise high performance.

To celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the 1^st F1 World Championship win, McLaren unveiled its W1 boasting a V8 with 1,275hp. In addition to this supercar’s outstanding power, it reaches 200 km/h from standstill in just 5.8 seconds, its aerodynamics rub shoulders with the incredible thanks to an elaborate Active Long Tail rear wing which heightens the downforce at high speed. Its pumped-up, athletic style diffuses its specificities through the design of the RM 65-01 Automatic Winding Split-Seconds Chronograph McLaren W1, the 4^th opus of Richard Mille‘s partnership with the British firm.

In a nutshell, the Carbon TPT^® bezel is now set on a counterpart crafted in grade 5 titanium that’s just five tenths of a millimeter thick at its slimmest point. This structure emphasizes the watch’s depth and center stages the skeletonized titanium dial, which boasts a pattern inspired by the one used on the wheel rims of the vitamin-boosted racing car. Other graphical features from the wheels played a role in the look of the pushers. The revamped lines of the crown are borrowed from the shape of drive-shaft screws.

The time data scenography, along with the color codes related to each function of the original model, reign supreme in this layered architecture. The hour and minute hands, the split-second chronograph’s 1/10^th of a second short-cycle time measurement, as well as the semi-instantaneous date display pursue their route, driven by the high-frequency (5 Hz) automatic RMAC4 caliber, nestling at the heart of the signature Carbon TPT^®-profiled case. A special pusher invites the wearer to charge up the 60-hour power reserve by tapping on it 125 times. Innovation is forever the catalyst for performance and creativity that knows no limit.

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Escape the gloom! The best season of the year offers an opportunity to move away from conventions. The brand keeps company with the boldest by showcasing two tremendously-alluring upgrades.

Back in 2020, Richard Mille unveiled its most complicated watch ever, the RM 65-01 Automatic Winding Split-seconds Chronograph. Its chronograph movement with a high-frequency and variable-inertia balance wheel beat at 5 Hz, as such delivering ultimate accuracy. The RMAC4 caliber, assembled using some 480 components, would keep time to the tenth of a second. A six-column toothed wheel drove all the stages in measuring time. Practicality was also the name of the game. In addition to a function selector which made it ever-so easy to set the semi-instantaneous date and time, among the innovations, a winding pusher at 8 o’clock let wearers fully wind up the fast-rotating barrel spring with a series of 125 taps. The motor would then deliver a power reserve of 60 hours.

This summer, the firm rolls out a 120-piece limited edition dressed in orange-yellow Quartz TPT^®. Its solar hue dazzles the geartrains with its glimmers. The balminess of sweet summery days also radiates from the model flaunting a signature tonneau shaped case in pastel blue-tinged Quartz TPT^®, which now features in the catalog. What’s more, in the skeletonized dial, color takes on a key role. Yellow partners with time displays, green with the semi-instantaneous date, orange is used for short-cycle time measurement features, red for winding, and blue for the split-seconds hand. In a nutshell, reading data is child’s play in this scenography exalted with azure hues.

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With this fifth opus, the brand brings a fascinating saga begun in 2010 to an incredible close, hand-in-hand with the Majorcan tennis player, 14 times winner of the French Roland-Garros.

14.64 grams, rubber and textile strap included, 11.5 grams without. To create the lightest tourbillon watch possible and achieve this result beyond belief, Richard Mille built on its know-how and focused on daring state-of-the-art options. In the RM 27-05 Flying Tourbillon Rafael Nadal, every gram and every millimeter has been taken into account thanks to finite element calculations and a host of simulations.

The structure of the RM27-05 manual-winding movement benefits from 4,000 hours of R&D. The barrel that’s less than 1 mm high was taken from one of the brand’s finest creations, the RM UP-01 Ultraflat Ferrari. Here, it was turned into a flying one for this piece. Richard Mille watchmakers also borrowed the one-piece skeletonized mainplate from this model yet made savvy changes to it. These choices mean this device is remarkably compact, just 2.12 mm thick, weighing in at 3.79 grams.

Reducing the volume of the case meant going for a slimmer case middle and monobloc back. The use of Carbon TPT^® B.4 was perfect for finalizing the project. This material also boosted the rigidity of all the components. Moreover, it also breathed life into never-seen-before architecture with an unscrewed caliber. Compared to Carbon TPT^®, this material is 4% more dense, the fiber 15% stiffer and the resin 30% more resistant. As such, the watch has beaten yet another record. This 80-piece limited series is insensitive to shocks of up to 14,000 g!

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This new limited edition of 30 pieces represents the essence of the Richard Mille spirit. On the program: a high-performing caliber of fine watchmaking quality and high-tech materials.

In 1997, the famous apple brand unveiled a memorable advertising campaign with an incredibly effective slogan, Think Different. Far from being outdated, this instruction seems to have become a mantra for many companies wishing to offer products that veer off the beaten track. For nearly 25 years, Richard Mille has achieved this perfectly by creating watches that cleverly combine fine watchmaking calibers with latest-generation materials thanks, in part, to a global vision and design. The new RM 17-02 Quartz TPT^® illustrates this ability to think outside of the box.

The lack of dial gives the hours and minutes display a fascinating mechanical decor in which the tourbillon, the variable-inertia balance wheel, the fast-rotating barrel and the other inner workings of the hand-wound movement do not play second fiddle. All the elements, their colors, the grade 5 titanium bridges, the choice of font for the numbers, play a role in the disruptive personality of this piece. The immaculate shade of the case crafted in Quartz TPT® accentuates its sporty look. The size and relief of the dynamometric crown make it easy to adjust. The caliber RM17-02 (approximately 70-hour power reserve) with its exemplary hand-crafted finishings features the emblematic energy and function indicators, positioned here at 2 o’clock and 4 o’clock respectively. Like the Richard Mille references, the RM 17-02 Quartz TPT^® is part of the brand’s drive to propose ultra high-performing models.

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Richard Mille and Louvre Abu Dhabi are delighted to present Nabla Yahya, the third winner of the Richard Mille Art Prize – whose work was celebrated under the Louvre Abu Dhabi dome in a ceremony on January 24th. Nabla Yahya (b. 1993, Abu Dhabi) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work Soft Bank, was one of eight pieces shortlisted for the Art Here 2023 exhibition, which opened to public in November 2023. Soft Bank (2023), Nabla’s winning installation, offered an amalgamation of her extensive research into the obscure and neglected history pertaining to the initial construction of the Suez Canal. Using a three-dimensional cartographic representation of the 164km Suez Canal, her figurative approach to this year’s Art Here theme, ‘Transparencies’, challenged observers to contemplate the role of cultural hegemony at the cost of what is todays Suez Canal. Soft Bank expands on the disregarded details that were made inconsequential, thus conceptualizing her interpretation of ‘Transparencies’. This theme explored the dynamics of transparency as well as its material and perceptual significance. Presented for the first time under the museum’s symbolic dome, the exhibition delved into the interplay of shadows, liquid reflections, and flashes of permeating sunlight provided by this location. Nabla Yahya was selected by a distinguished six-member jury, led by H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, an Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Chairman of UAE Unlimited, an art collector, and a patron of the Centre Pompidou, the British Museum and Sharjah Art Foundation. Joining him are Dr. Souraya Noujaim, Director of the Islamic Arts department at Musée du Louvre in France, and former Director for Scientific, Curatorial and Collections Management at Louvre Abu Dhabi; Maya El Khalil, independent curator and art advisor, former Founding Director of Athr Gallery in Jeddah, and curator of Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here 2023; Clare Lilley, Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the selector of the annual Frieze Sculpture in London’s Regent’s Park 2012- 22 and a trustee of Art UK, London, the George Rickey Foundation, New York, and the Jupiter Artland Foundation, Edinburgh; Dr. Guilhem André, Acting Director for Scientific, Curatorial and Collections Management at Louvre Abu Dhabi, seasoned museum professional, expert archaeologist and art historian; and Mohammed Kazem, a renowned Emirati artist previously shortlisted for the 2021 edition of Art Here. The Richard Mille Art Prize and Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here serve as a platform to showcase contemporary artists from the region working with a diversity of mediums. Each year, the exhibition sees several artists selected through an open call for proposals, each presenting an artwork that responds to a unique thematic. 

HE Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of Louvre Abu Dhabi, said: “Part of our driving mission is to ensure we support and empower artists in Abu Dhabi, the UAE and beyond, providing the conditions for creative innovation and artistic expression to flourish. The Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here exhibition and accompanying Richard Mille Art Prize are an important platform for GCC-based contemporary artists to demonstrate the talent present in the region, further raising Abu Dhabi’s profile as a centre for culture and creativity.” 

Maya El Khalil, curator of Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here 2023, said: “Each artist in the exhibition provided a surprising and novel engagement with the theme. The multidimensionality of Nabla Yayha’s work ultimately made the award a unanimous decision. SoftBank approaches the idea of ‘Transparencies’ indirectly – interrogating difficult histories that are treated as unseen when they should be confronted. The details of the work shed light on the invisible currents of finance, trade, and labour that structure the region. It is both a brilliant response to the theme and a significant work with the astute complexity that is a hallmark of Nabla’s practice and thinking – we are all excited to see what she does in future.” 

“I am deeply honored to receive the 2023 Richard Mille Art Prize. This recognition is a testament to the power of art to transcend boundaries and illuminate hidden histories. ‘SoftBank’ is not just an installation; it’s a dialogue between the past and the present, a reflection on the Suez Canal’s transformation. This award fuels my commitment to exploring untold stories and challenging perspectives through my work. Thank you to Louvre Abu Dhabi and Richard Mille Art Prize for championing creativity and providing a platform to contemporary artists like me.” Said Nabla Yahya, winner of the 2023 Richard Mille Art Prize. 

For more details on the Art Prize please visit www.artprize.richardmille.com

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Following a first version rolled out in Quartz TPT®, the model boasting a butterfly rotor jazzes up its style with another high-tech material. Yet, efficiency’s still the name of the game.

As 2024 dawns and Rafael Nadal’s back with a blast on courts looking for new feats, Richard Mille unveils a new variation of its RM 35-03 Automatic Rafael Nadal fashioned, this time round, with a Carbon TPT^® case. This composite, the brand’s technical signature, endows the watch with its assets of lightness and sturdiness, and infuses it with a one-of-a-kind spirit. The black and gray tones, along with the random pattern inherent to this material heighten the sporty look and, at the same time, add a dash of mystery. Inside the layered, skeletonized dial, the original geometry of the bridges becomes the scenescape for the hours and minutes ticking by, as well as for the can’t-do-without winding indicator and the function selector display.

The existence of a sapphire-crystal caseback unveils one of the secrets that gift the RMAL2 caliber with its awesome performances. This automatic movement boasts an innovative rotor. A tap on the pusher set at 7 o’clock shifts the timepiece’s center of gravity. As such, the oscillating weight changes from a classical semi-circle look to a butterfly. This action halts the winding process and ensures that the rotor doesn’t spin around at top speed anytime the wearer’s doing an intensive sporting activity. Effort and comfort are but one.

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With this new limited series boasting powerful design, the independent brand reminds us that technical and stylistic worlds constantly consort and spark visual emotions.

With its RM 21-02 Tourbillon Aerodyne watch, Richard Mille showcases its first-ever creation equipped with a baseplate crafted in Haynes^® 214^®. This nickel-chromium-aluminum-iron alloy stands out through its oxidation resistance which is much greater than practically all alternatives as it resists temperature of over 955°C. Although its mainly used for manufacturing special pieces in the aeronautical field, the watchmaker from Les Breuleux found a totally-different purpose for it by combining it with Carbon TPT®. When paired together, these two materials offer incredible rigidness and, among other things, excellent ability to take on torsion. In addition to its assets, this duo is also highly-stylistic with its charming honeycomb pattern. In a nutshell, this is what serves as a scenescape for the remarkable architecture of the RM21-02 caliber, a manual-winding tourbillon movement.

And, as in all Richard Mille‘s production, engineering and design are but one. For this variation issued in just 50 pieces, the brand went for a dynamic two-tone scenography. Light and shade adorning the skeletonized dial, center staging the time data, the power reserve and torque indicators, gifts this case-strap pair with incredible personality. For the great photographer Elliot Erwitt, “Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive”. The RM 21-02 Tourbillon Aerodyne shows the same holds true for fine watchmaking.

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A spectacular creative force has shaped this unique watch, to be worn around the neck like a sacred amulet, and which multiplies both mechanical and artistic prowess, paying a vibrant, almost tribal tribute to the beauty of nature.

Born of the fertile soil of the imagination, resulting from a spectacular creative force, the RM S14 Talisman Origine is doubly unique. Firstly, for Richard Mille, this horological masterpiece represents a major first, as the brand accustomed to designing wristwatches as innovative as they are exclusive ventures into the realm of mechanical timepieces to be worn entwined around the neck. Secondly, to intensify its exceptional character, this model, equipped with a metal and rubber link adjustable thanks to a gold snap clasp, was produced in a single unit.

The wealth of detail and chiseled symbols on this time-displaying amulet is so extensive that it requires careful examination. Inspired by ancient, almost tribal origins, the choice of materials – rhodonites with a thousand shades, titanium, marble, red gold and heather wood – and the engraving work on stones and metal. Clamped by claws held in place by screws, the Richard Mille signature tonneau-shaped case is 46.77 x 77.27mm with a thickness of 13.10mm. On either side of the case middle, two crowns contribute to the symmetry of the whole: one, functional, represents the sun (at 3 o’clock), while the other, purely decorative, is akin to the moon (at 9 o’clock). The transparent dial features an openworked plate whose golden geometric structure evokes the branches of a stylized tree. Hours and minutes are displayed in the center, overlooking a variable-inertia tourbillon nestled at 6 o’clock. These functions are delivered by the CRMT5 caliber, a 4hz self-winding movement equipped with a fast-rotating barrel that provides a 50-hour power reserve.

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Asymmetrical geometrics, pastel primary colors, and mixes of possibilities shape the personality of these enigmatic, fun-filled, variations, a world away from conventions.

Design’s a serious matter in Italy. As the 1980s came around, a group founded by Ettore Sottsass decided to turn it on its head. The members of Memphis intended to mix artistic movements from around the globe and fashion. This desire was embodied in a never-seen-before use of colors and shapes based on basic materials. In a nutshell, creativity cast aside functionality, set itself free. The RM 07-01 Coloured Ceramics imagined by Richard Mille take their identity from these principles. “The Memphis Group fascinates with its diversity and freedom. Its founders wanted to break free from the restrictive structures of modernist styles, and they were trailblazers by embracing all sorts of materials in their creations. The idea at the heart of this collection’s creative process was in the juxtaposition of colors which varied based on the materials. We then adorned the dial with guilloché engraving, a centuries-old decorative technique. There was perfect symbiosis between the ultra-modern and traditional watchmaking”, explains Cécile Guenat, the brand’s Director of Creation and Development. On their dial, this trio of watches showcases fun-filled scenographies concocted with a wide array of geometric patterns. All are highlighted through the use of blush pink, lavender pink and powder blue TZP ceramic.

Inside the case, the selfwinding CRMA2 caliber drives the hour and minute hands accurately. This movement stands out with its variable-inertia balance wheel, its fast-rotating barrel and its variable-geometry rotor. Thanks to these components, the 50-hour power reserve is always finely-tuned. To break free from conventional codes, you have to master them.

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The brand creates a breath of fresh air in its daring production by enhancing its collection with a watch center staging its engineering know-how and stylistic identity.

With its RM 30-01 Automatic with Declutchable Rotor, Richard Mille rolls out a technical and esthetically-pleasing masterpiece boasting the most latest-to-date innovations and, above all, a signature model that epitomizes the brand’s identity. This fine watchmaking piece gives pride of place to optimizing energy transmission and production. And, to leverage its high-tech assets, the brand new RMAR2 caliber is the star of the show. This movement features a variable geometry rotor which is capable of disengaging once the 55 hours of autonomy have been reached. Whenever there’s only 40 hours of energy left, the rotor re-engages to recharge the barrel spring.

This particularity can be admired dial-side thanks to the winding indicator set at 11 o’clock along with the orange and blue one devoted to the power reserve. This duo is underscored in a scenography that’s been revamped in relation to that of the RM 030. In a nutshell, the curves have disappeared. A lozenge-shaped architecture takes over and jazzes up the time data displays. In this layered, skeletonized scenescape, we discover an oversized date and a function indicator. The selector positioned at 2 o’clock enables the wearer to choose between W for winding, D for adjusting the date and H for setting the time. Two variations of the iconic tonneau case are available, one in 5N red gold, the other in grade 5 titanium. The second also stands out through its weight, just 96 grams, strap included.

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The most complex of all the brand’s chronographs now takes on a new sporty personality thanks to an attractive mix of state-of-the-art materials and bright colors.

In 2020, Richard Mille shook up split-second chronograph codes. This complication, far too often typecast as a formal exercise, integrated a classical, traditional model at the time. With the RM 65-01, it now reigns supreme in a scenescape imagined around a powerful design forged in Carbon TPT^® or in 5N red gold. The variation unveiled this summer emphasizes its sporty personality a bit more thanks to an appealing combination of hues and materials. Although the iconic tonneau-shaped case adorns subtle hints of gray inherent to Quartz TPT^®, on the skeletonized dial, time data flaunts novel colors that jazz up the composition of the RM 65-01 Grey Quartz TPT^®.

In a nutshell, sky blue dresses the hour and minute data, the hands, the small seconds and the numerals. Orange empowers the chronograph counters. A deep azure shade marks out the vertical semi-instantaneous display large date aperture at 11 o’clock. Sunny yellow brightens up the edge of the dial, the grade 5 titanium crown with its function selector and the related indicator hand nestling at 5:30. The RMAC4 caliber equipped with a six-column wheel drives the data. This automatic movement boasts a high-frequency 36,000 vibrations an hour, variable inertia balance wheel. A pusher, set at 8 o’clock, is used to wind up the fast-rotating barrel spring with a series of 125 taps. The RM 65-01 Grey Quartz TPT^® then delivers a power reserve of around 60 hours. This Richard Mille-imagined highly-accurate, cutting-edge mechanism is also a high performer!

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This piece, an upgrade of the brand’s first-ever flyback chronograph, combines high-powered engineering and eye-catching design. The perfect combo to become the stuff of legend.

To celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the world’s most prestigious endurance race, Richard Mille has rolled out an exclusive 150-piece limited series. What sets it apart? The RM 72-01 Le Mans Classic echoes the technical assets of the model showcased back in 2020 yet adds a captivating stylistic twist. In a nutshell, it comes equipped with the first-ever chronograph caliber, CRMC1, boasting an in-house developed and assembled flyback function. This mechanism, created using some 425 components, embraces all the know-how of the watchmaker from Les Breuleux: baseplate and bridges in grade 5 titanium, an ingenious patented dual clutch system with oscillating pinions, a variable-inertia balance wheel, a rotor in 950 platinum crafted from a single block of material.

Here, this elaborate skeletonized selfwinding movement comes into play in a two-toned scenography featuring a case ingeniously espousing white and green TPT^® quartz. This graphic composition jazzes up the watch’s personality. This finery, inspired by the colors of classic sports cars, graces the time data with a case that’s on a par with their functions. The counters, suitable for measuring time up to a whole day, flaunt extra colors in addition to the ones of the case. The hour-totalizer “16” stands out in its red cartouche, a tip of the hat to Le Mans 24 Hours’ kick-off time (i.e. 4pm). What’s more, there’s also a vertical semi-instantaneous date encircled by a frame that reproduces the checkered flag. Once again, high-tech and design are but one!

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