A Look At Richard Mille Hyper Luxury Timepieces & Some Pics of a RM032 in a Ferrari 458 Speciale No Less

Under A Blood Red Sky

Sorry what was the title of the post? Ah, Richard Mille!

So who is the man behind the brand? His relatively short history can be found on wikipedia LINK... jewelry sales and marketing, then watch head for Mauboussin and then starting Richard Mille in 1999 and the RM001 coming out in 2001. Had wanted to talk more about the production of the watches but that's been covered really well in this ablogtowatch post LINK (do check it out) 

My short simple take on him is that he is a marketing genius for being able to sell what he does and price it the way he has and the bar just seems to get higher and higher to join the exclusive club of RM owners. He also has some design mojo since he has a hand in the designs or greenlighting them. On the quality and technical kick-a$$ery front though, i would make a distinction between RMs that have APRP [Audemars Piguet Renaud Papi] movements/complications vs the Vauchers but to most as long as it's an RM... it'll do :)

You know those articles that say what your watch says about you? RM owners would fall into the category of (1) too much money to care about prices much or at all (2) too much money to care about what they're actually paying for or maybe just (3) too much money period. [Luxury watch purchases are not highly rational decisions as it is, this is just stretching iiiitttttt ] No surprise that RM becomes a de riguer brand to own for the flash car/exotics/supercar/hypercar owner. these are hyper luxury products and for the people with the $, the price does not matter.

Enough of words and onto the pics... and there are a number of them. hope u like 'em. cheers, raph

RM011-FM Dubail Ti

movement view... 

profile has nice mix of brushed and polished surfaces

very consistent machine aesthetic through the range

RM032... we meet again

movement view

going all in...

red storm rising... [ok i've officially run out of things to say about it... for now :)]

Ferrari 458 Speciale

engine bay... so beautiful... 

i wish they all could be california... 

beautiful inside and out of course... 

it even looks good in black and white :)

Forza Ferrari!

and coz i took pics of another RM recently... let's have a quick look at RM030 AN Ti

movement view

the transparency of these pieces are cool

RM032 Ti with the Ferrari

exiting the beast

totally in it's natural environment :)

we are ready for liftoff...

hmm i wonder what this button does... oops that's me ready to launch this bad boy
hmm nice team alinghi forged carbon... kinda goes with the carbon fibre methinks

objects in the mirror are closer than they appear... may be a good thing there's nothing there
then coz we left em all behind :)