Gold Souk, Deira
Richard Mille RM 53-01 Pablo Mac Donough, reference RM 53-01

Richard Mille

RM 53-01 Pablo Mac Donough

Ref. RM 53-01

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Case44.5 x 49.9mm Carbon TPT
DialSkeletonised
ComplicationTourbillon
MovementManual winding RM53-01
StrapRubber
Limited30 pieces
Year2018

Built for the polo player Pablo Mac Donough, the RM 53-01 hangs its tourbillon movement inside the case on a braided cable under tension, and covers it with a laminated sapphire crystal built like bulletproof glass.

This Richard Mille RM 53-01 wears a 44.5 x 49.9mm Carbon TPT case with a skeletonised face. Manual winding RM53-01 inside.

Fun fact: The crystal is two sheets of sapphire bonded around a plastic interlayer, the same principle as a car windscreen, so a strike from a polo mallet cracks it without sending fragments into the movement. Thirty were made.

The collection

Automatic

The automatic side of Richard Mille, where the rotor is set to suit the wearer

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.

Sizes in the family

Barrel cases, roughly 31 to 45 mm wide and 45 to 50 mm long

Who it suits

Suits a buyer who wants the movement in view from both sides and a winding system that can be set for an active wearer.

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