The first sports watch for women by Richard Mille makes its entry into the brand’s collections with the reference RM 07-04. For the first time, the brand has dedicated itself from start to finish to the creation of a watch entirely dedicated to its female audience and its athletes, a very important part of the Friends of The Brand.
Let’s find out what makes these watches incredible.
The first sports watch for women by Richard Mille RM 07-04
When Richard Mille decides to launch a new model, you can only expect years of R&D and a never trivial result, as in the new RM 07-04. The goal for its creation was ergonomics and lightness, two basic aspects to allow the athletes to be able to wear them on the pitch. The performance of the mechanism, as you will soon discover, is no different.
On an aesthetic level, RM has played a lot on skeletonization, one of its strong points, but studying an architecture that is particularly pleasing to the eye. We have a real sporty touch with these bridges that cut from various parts of the clock mechanism.
The friends of the brand: Nafi Thiam, Margot Laffite, Yuliya Levchenko
The so-called Friends of The Brand, Richard Mille’s ambassadors, are not few, but they represent an elite of athletes, pilots, musicians and artists, who embrace the brand’s philosophy and therefore wear its watches.
Among the women behind the first sports watch for women by Richard Mille RM 07-04 sports car are Nafi Thiam, Margot Laffite, Yuliya Levchenko, Nelly Korda, Ester Ledecká and Aurora Stratus. Each of them represents a different case configuration.
36 grams of pure energy in a Quartz TPT or Carbon TPT case
At the ultra-lightweight watch class, Richard Mille is always in the front row, ready to respond to the demands of watchmaking. The main discriminating factor for any sportsman who wants to wear a timepiece on his wrist is weight, which is why the brand has been studying for years a formula that would make them almost non-existent on the wrist.
When we say almost non-existent, we mean 36 grams in weight. This figure is equivalent to a few sheets of paper placed on the wrist, as we told you in one of our YouTube videos, RM also holds the record for the lightest watches in the world.
For The first sports watch for women by Richard Mille, 5 differently colored Quartz TPT cases and one classic Carbon TPT case, famous for its dark colour, were chosen. These two materials are exclusive to the brand, which has been using them for many years now and in different variations. What makes them special are their properties and streaks, in fact each case is unique for the arrangement of the various layers of materials. Quartz TPT is highly resistant to high temperatures, as well as being anti-magnetic.
The CRMA8 caliber resists up to 5000g’s
Per creare il calibro CRMA8 sono stati necessari 3 anni di sviluppo. Le difficoltà più grandi riguardavano garantire la resistenza agli urti fino a 5000g e farlo in un calibro che fosse compatto e It took 3 years of development to create the CRMA8 calibre. The biggest challenges involved ensuring shock resistance up to 5000g and doing so in a caliber that was compact and architecturally pleasing. This feature is also part of the Tourbillon watches created for the Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal.
Looking inside this mechanism, one cannot help but be mesmerized by the finishes of the bridges and the plate.
On the back is the platinum rotor with patented OneWay operation, with ceramic bearings. This component allows the barrel to load efficiently, despite its very small size.
Price and availability to the public
The first Richard Mille women’s sports RM 07-04 has a retail price of 167,000 Euros + VAT. This is not a limited edition. What do you think?
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