Richard Mille

Extra Flat is the slim end of the Richard Mille catalogue, and it starts with the RM 016 Automatic Extraflat of 2007, which Richard Mille calls the first rectangular watch in the collection. The line runs in two shapes today, tonneau and rectangular. The RM 67-01 keeps the tonneau outline over the 3.60 mm calibre CRMA6, with a date at 5 o'clock and a function indicator at 2 o'clock, while the RM 67-02 uses the 4.00 mm calibre CRMA7 for hours and minutes only, cased in Quartz TPT and Carbon TPT on a seamless elastic strap at 32 grams complete. The RM 16-02 is the rectangular one, hours and minutes from the 4.12 mm calibre CRMA9 in a grade 5 titanium case held by twelve spline screws.

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Automatic Winding is the label Richard Mille puts on the models wound by a rotor rather than by hand, and it appears on tourbillon and non tourbillon references alike. Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat founded the house in 2001 and showed the hand wound RM 001 Tourbillon that year, with automatic calibres following. Most of these share a build: a barrel case held together by grade 5 titanium spline screws, a skeletonised grade 5 titanium baseplate, and a sapphire caseback over the movement. The rotor is where they separate, matched to how active the owner is, by weights that adjust the rotor geometry on some references and by a pusher on the case that switches the winding on others.

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The chronographs carry Richard Mille's motor racing names, beginning with the RM 011 Automatic Flyback Chronograph Felipe Massa of 2007, and the line ran on through the RM 11 references to the RM 11-05 Automatic Flyback Chronograph GMT of 2020. At the other end of the family the RM 65-01 is an automatic split seconds chronograph, timing two events at once, with a 30 minute counter at 3 o'clock, a 12 hour counter at 9 o'clock and a balance running at 36,000 vph. A pusher at 8 o'clock winds the barrel rapidly, and its function selector reads W for winding, D for date and H for hand setting. The case is built in three parts, bezel, caseband and caseback held by twelve spline screws in grade 5 titanium, over a skeletonised movement whose baseplate and bridges are grade 5 titanium too.

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