How much is Richard Mille watch price range in 2020

How much is Richard Mille watch price range in 2020

There’s a reason Richard Mille watches are known as “the secret billionaire’s handshake.” The brand is largely known only among the billionaires (and the occasional nine-digit millionaire) who can afford them. But now Mille has taken prices, and watchmaking, to a new extreme with his latest watch, which touts a $2.2 million price tag. How much is Richard Mille watch price range in 2019?

Richard Mille has quite a history of expensive watches. (Recall the $690,000 it made—and replaced—for Rafael Nadal, or the $1.65 million RM 056 it developed in 2012.). So it’s no surprise to see the extreme price tag of the third model in its line of sapphire tourbillon timepieces, the $2,020,000 RM 56-02 Tourbillon Sapphire. How much is Richard Mille watch price range in 2019?

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What makes it so special?

The watch is special because its complex case design and extraordinarily intricate movement are forged out of pure sapphire and then suspended in air by a system of pulleys. It is built on the same fundamental design that Nadal’s watch used with the RM 27-01 when the company debuted a technology that suspended the watches’ interior mechanics transparently mid-air, making the whole thing appear weightless. The difference this time is that the base-plate is titanium and the case is sapphire. So Richard Mille watch price range varies in 2019.

Richard Mille is a Swissluxurywatchmaking brand founded in 2001 by Dominique Guenat and Richard Mille, and based in Les Breuleux, Switzerland. After studying marketing in Besançon, Richard Mille (born 13 February 1951, Draguignan, France) started work at Finhor, a local watchmaking company in 1974. The company was bought by Matra in 1981 and Richard Mille rose to manage Matra’s watchmaking business, which then included the brands Yema and Cupillard Rième. Matra’s watchmaking activities were sold to Seiko, who Mille left in 1992 to start a watchmaking business for jewellery firm Mauboussin.

What are the Richard Mille watch collections?

The brand has designed its own manufactured automatic calibres, including a whirlpool movement. Richard Mille watch price range varies in 2019 based on calibre.

Name of the caliber	Richard Mille watch	Designation
CRMA1	RM037	First in-house automatic caliber with hours, minutes, big dates and function selector.
CRMA2	RM 07-01 Black Ceramic	Automatic caliber with hours and minutes.
CRMA3	RM 63-01	Automatic caliber with hours, minutes and twisting hours complication (Dizzy hands).
CRMA4	RM 63-02	Automatic caliber with hours, minutes, seconds, big dates, function selector and universal time complication.
CRMA5	RM 07-02	Automatic gold calibre with hours and minutes.
CRMA6	RM 67-01 Automatic Extra Flat	Ultra-flat automatic caliber with hours, minutes, date and function indicator.
CRMA7	RM 67-02 Sebastian Ogier Carbon TPT	Ultra-flat automatic caliber with hours, minutes, date and function indicator.
CRMT1	RM 71-01	First in-house automatic swirl caliber with hours and minutes.

Richard Mille company at a glance

The “Richard Mille Company” comprises the following companies: Horométrie SA (distribution), Guenat SA Montres Valgine (conception and assembly), ProArt (components), VMDH (decoration) and Cercle d’Art (publishing).

In 2018, the Group employed 148 people.

• Horométrie SA

Horométrie is the operating Richard Mille company (of the «Richard Mille brand») created by Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat in 2001. It also coordinates global distribution via four partners, who operate 38 proprietary Richard Mille stores around the world as joint ventures or franchises, and 45 retailers distributed as follows :

1. RM EMEA for Europe, the Middle East and Africa
2. RM USA for North and South America
3. RM JAPAN for Japan
4. RM ASIA for South-East Asia

• Guenat SA – Montres Valgine

Dominique Guenat joined the Guenat SA – Montres Valgine (GMV) company in 1986 and took to the helm in 1991. In 1999, he teamed up with Richard Mille to create the “Richard Mille” watch brand.

All Richard Mille watches are developed and produced in Switzerland by the Guenat SA – Montres Valgine (GMV) Manufacture in Les Breuleux. Design and development are carried out in the old 1950s building in Les Breuleux, which was renovated in 1972, while assembly and quality control are performed in the building that was completed in 2007.

In 2018, Cécile Guenat – director of the Richard Mille women’s collection, daughter of Dominique Guenat and the fourth generation to work at the Montres Valgine company – presented the first Richard Mille creation to be designed by a woman: the RM 71-01 Automatic Tourbillon Talisman.

• ProArt

Richard Mille watch cases, as well as certain movement components, such as baseplates, bridges, screws and some wheels, are produced in their entirety by ProArt. This machining company belongs to the Richard Mille group and operates in an ultra-modern 3,000 m² building that was opened in April 2013 in Les Breuleux. Work to extend the ProArt site began in late 2017, with the construction of a second building intended to house the research and development offices as well as new machining workshops.

• VMDH

VMDH (Vital Morel Décalque Horlogère) is located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, just 25 km from Les Breuleux. It specialises in transfers and the decoration of watch movement components (galvanoplasty, electroplating, etc.). VMDH produces all the dials and flanges used by the Richard Mille brand as well as some of the hands, and is tasked with applying «Super-LumiNova» phosphorescent pigments. VMDH is chaired by Yves Mathys.

Why you should buy Richard Mille Watches

• Visual identity – RM 030 with the characteristic Richard Mille case shape. The characteristic Richard Mille case shape is now the principal element of the brand’s visual identity, ensuring that the watches are clearly recognisable, as are the spline screws visible on both the case and the inside of the movement. The movement is always visible in a Richard Mille watch. And it is one of the reasons why Richard Mille watch price range varies in 2019.

• Products – The brand’s most famous models are the Tourbillon RM 008 (chronograph tourbillon) and the sapphire split seconds (chronograph tourbillon) RM 056. The RM 008 combines a tourbillon movement with manual winding, a chronograph split-seconds, a torque indicator, and a power reserve indicator. Claimed to be one of the most advanced watches in the world, it is priced from €500,000 (Richard Mille watch price range in 2019).

• The RM 056 split seconds (chronograph tourbillon) is distinguished by its three-part all-sapphire skeletal case. The RM 056 is completely see-through and is the first watch case to be completely built from sapphire, with a limited edition five pieces of the Richard Mille RM 056 Felipe Massa Sapphire priced at US$1.7 million (Richard Mille watch price range in 2019). The RM 056 was declared best watch of 2012 at the Salon Internacional de Alta Relojería watchmakers’ exhibition in Mexico City in October 2012.

• Technologies – A large portion of Richard Mille’s inspiration comes from racing cars and the study of shock-resistance, the concrete applications of which have made it possible to improve the rigidity of the baseplate, reduce friction, and give the watches very high shock-resistance. The concepts and materials inspired by Formula 1, which provided the basis for the first Richard Mille watch (RM 001), are one of the cornerstones of the brand’s philosophy. It is another reason for being varied Richard Mille watch price range in 2019,

• Richard Mille decided to craft extremely lightweight and accurate watches from the best high-tech materials used in aeronautics, Formula 1 and precision surgery, such as grade 5 titanium, LITAL®, Carbon TPT® and graphene. Thus ARCAP – a material renowned for its physical qualities, including resistance to corrosion and magnetic fields – was used for the first time in watchmaking history in the RM 002.

• Richard Mille teamed up with North Thin Ply Technology, the world leader in the production of lightweight pre-impregnated materials used in sailing and Formula 1, to produce the RM 27-02 Rafael Nadal in Carbon NTPT® and Quartz TPT®, as well as the RM 11-03 McLaren. A Richard Mille Tourbillon can contain up to 1,000 components in a case that measures just 45 millimetres thick.

• Accuracy – The RM 031 is one of the most accurate wristwatches ever created. With a frequency of 36,000 vibrations per hour, it features the most advanced regulation mechanism in existence and has a performance of +/- 20 seconds per month – a real feat in modern watchmaking. Limited to just 10 pieces.

• Lightness – In 2004, Richard Mille launched the RM 006 Felipe Massa Tourbillon, which weighed just 48 grams (excluding the strap). In 2005, the brand repeated this feat with the RM 009 Felipe Massa Tourbillon, which set a world record of 29 grams (excluding the strap).
• In 2007, the record was reduced to 20 grams by the RM 027 Rafael Nadal (strap included)52, whose movement is made from titanium and LITAL®, a lithium alloy popular in aeronautics that contains aluminium, copper, magnesium and zirconium.
• In 2013, the record was smashed by the manually wound RM 27-01 Rafael Nadal Tourbillon watch (limited to 50 pieces), which pushed the concepts of lightness and resistance to the extreme. Developed with the tennis star, the tourbillon weighs just 18.83 grams (strap included) and holds the record for the lightest tourbillon ever made thanks to its lithium aluminium movement and carbon nanotube case.
• In 2017, at the Salon international de la haute horlogerie (SIHH), Richard Mille presented the RM 50-03 McLaren F1, the world’s lightest flyback chronograph weighing just 38 grams (strap included).

• Shock-resistance – The RM 27-03 Tourbillon can withstand impacts of 10,000 g – double that of the RM 50-03 McLaren F1 – thanks to its skeletonised unibody baseplate made from Carbon TPT®. On 25 July 2009, during his Formula 1 accident in the qualifying stages of the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Felipe Massa, one of the brand’s most iconic partners, was wearing an RM 006, which emerged from the almost 200 km/h crash unscathed.

Who wears Richard Mille watches

The brand sponsors various sports persons, and the company also sponsors sports events including the Le Mans Classic and Grand Prix de Pau auto races and the ‘Voiles de Saint Barth‘ sailing regatta.

Sailing

In 2006, Richard Mille launched a partnership with Italian yacht manufacturer Perini Navi. The watch brand also became the official timekeeper of the Perini Navi Cup. To mark this collaboration, it launched the RM 014 Tourbillon Perini Navi watch in 2006 and the RM 015 Tourbillon Perini Navi in 2007.

Richard Mille has been the main partner of «Les Voiles de Saint Barth» (since 2010) with the “Richard Mille Maxi Cup”. In 2007, Ian Williams, a British sailor, won the third edition of the Monsoon Cup under the colors Richard Mille, last round of the World Match Racing Tour in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, and became World Match-Race Champion.

Sport

Since 2013, Richard Mille has been sponsoring the Lacoste Ladies Open Golf Women’s Open. In May 2011, Richard Mille created the Richard Mille Polo Team composed of Prince Bahar of Brunei, British player Max Routledge and Argentinians Pablo Mac Donough and Alejandro Muzzio.

Cars and racing

Like his friend Dominique Guenat, Richard Mille is passionate about vintage and competition cars, and is a great collector of racing cars and historical cars, which he drives and exhibits at trade shows, exhibitions and partner events. He is also Chairman of the Endurance Commission of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). From its very beginnings, the brand has invested in events dedicated to the automobile and the competition, becoming in 2002 the partner of the automobile event, now a must-see and a classic of its kind, the Le Mans Classic.

In 2014, Richard Mille reiterated his involvement, always in association with Patrick Peter of Peter Auto, and contributed to the creation of an event dedicated to historic automobiles which became, from its first edition, one of the most prestigious automotive elegance competitions in the world : the Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille. The Richard Mille brand has teamed up with a number of renowned drivers from Formula 1 teams, such as Alfa Romeo Sauber, Haas F1 Team and McLaren Racing, and from Formula E (Nissan E-dams, Venturi Formula E).

In 2017, Richard Mille and McLaren Automotive signed a 10-year partnership agreement. The two companies share common values that include the quest for performance, lightness and technically innovative materials. The RM 11-03 McLaren Automatic Flyback Chronograph – a limited edition of 500 timepieces jointly designed by McLaren design director Rob Melville and Richard Mille engineer Fabrice Namura – is the first product to arise from this union. The RM 11-03 McLaren watch enabled the 500 owners of the McLaren Senna, the first model in the Ultimate Series from the Woking-based manufacturer, to order a watch with a number that matched the chassis number of their supercar. Furthermore, the McLaren Speedtail presented in October 2018 is the first car to incorporate Thin-Ply Technology (TPT) in automotive construction. It is used on the supercar’s upper control system, steering wheel base, and gear-change paddles.

Also in 2017, the watch brand became an official partner of the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, and of the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet in 2018, where the “Tour Chrono” (race display board) was designed by the Richard Mille teams.

In late 2018, just before the first leg of the 2018–19 Formula E season, Richard Mille announced a three-year partnership with Venturi, the team managed by Gildo Pastor in which Felipe Massa, the watch brand’s historic partner, competes alongside teammate Edoardo Mortara.

In 2019, Tolman Motorsport ran a pair of McLaren 570S GT4s with Richard Mille as a sponsor.

The watch brand is also a partner of:

• The Spa Classic (in 2013), Belgium,
• The Suzuka Sound of Engine Richard Mille (since 2016),
• The Nürburgring Classic (since 2017),
• The Rallye des Princesses (since 2017),
• The Rallye des Légendes Richard Mille (since 2018),
• Rétromobile.

Art

In 2014, Horométrie SA acquired « Éditions Cercle d’Art ». The publishing house decided to refocus on prestigious art books. In parallel, it now also publishes books about watchmaking, architecture, photography, design, gastronomy and cars.

Richard Mille watches honouring mention

Name	Profession
Fernando Alonso	Spanish racing driver
Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatari track and field athlete
Yohan Blake	Jamaican sprinter: Blake wore a customised Tourbillon in Jamaica’s national colours during the 2012 Olympic games in London
Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	German dressage rider
Sébastien Buemi	Swiss professional racing driver
Jenson Button	British racing driver
Pierre Casiraghi	Vice president of Yacht Club Monaco
Jackie Chan	Hong Kong action star: RM 057 Dragon-Jackie Chan Tourbillon
Didier Drogba	Ivorian professional footballer
Romain Grosjean	French Formula One driver
Cristie Kerr	American professional golfer
Cyril Kongo	French painter and graffiti artist
Charles Leclerc	Monégasque racing driver
Ester Ledecká	Czech snowboarder and alpine skier
Yuliya Levchenko	Ukrainian high jumper
Sébastien Loeb	French Rally driver
Diana Luna	Italian professional golfer
Pablo Mac Donough	Argentino professional polo player
John Malkovich	American actor, producer, and fashion designer
Roberto Mancini	Italian football manager and former player
Felipe Massa	Brazilian Formula One driver: Richard Mille has developed three special-edition Tourbillon watches with Massa, including the RM 006, RM 009, and RM 056.
Benjamin Millepied	American actor, producer, and fashion designer
Rafael Nadal	tennis player
Wayde van Niekerk	South African sprinter: gold medal and broke the world record in the 400m in the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sébastien Ogier	French rally driver
Simon Pagenaud	French professional racing driver
Alexis Pinturault	French World Cup alpine ski racer
Alain Prost	Retired French racing driver
Margot Robbie	Australian actress
Mick Schumacher	German racing driver
Sylvester Stallone	American actor
Nafissatou Thiam	Belgian athlete specializing in multi-event competition
Jean Todt	French, President of the FIA, Formula One’s governing body
Stoffel Vandoorne	Belgian professional racing driver
Bubba Watson	American golfer: Watson won the 2012 Masters Tournament wearing a Richard Mille watch.
Pharrell Williams	American music producer and singer-songwriter
Michelle Yeoh	Malaysian actress: Richard Mille developed the Richard Mille RM 051 Phoenix-Michelle Yeoh.
Alexander Zverev	German tennis player
Johannes Thingnes Bø	Norwegian Biathlon

What is the newest Richard Mille watch and Richard Mille watch price range in 2019

In 2016, Richard Mille and Airbus Corporate Jets, or ACJ—the Airbus subsidiary that manufactures bespoke private aircraft—co-designed a watch, the RM 50-02 ACJ Tourbillon Split Seconds Chronograph, available in a 30-piece limited edition for a staggering $1.05 million.

Now, the companies have released their sophomore effort, the RM 62-01 Tourbillon Vibrating Alarm ACJ, the most complicated timepiece Richard Mille has ever produced (with a price tag to match: $1,225,000).

The watches in the 30-piece limited edition feature a caseback and bezel made of steel and titanium, with a second bezel, shaped like an airline window, machined from Carbon TPT, a high-tech carbon fiber composite impregnated with black resin. The timepiece embodies the principles that Richard Mille, the poster child of contemporary watchmaking, has become synonymous with in his 18 years on the haute horlogerie scene: material experimentation, extreme mechanics and ergonomics.

Richard Mille RM 62-01 Caseback Courtesy of Richard Mille

Designed for travelers, the RM 62-01 is the ultimate example of discreet luxury: The alarm function works exclusively through vibrations. Instead of having a hammer create a sound by striking a pillar, a gong or the interior of the case, the time signal is transmitted by a vibration only perceived by the wearer.

Although the watch is easy to use—pressing the pusher at the center of the crown allows wearers to toggle between five different functions: winding, hand setting, alarm setting, UTC setting and neutral position—the architecture that supports it, built by Richard Mille and the movement makers at Audemars Piguet Renaud & Papi, required “an absolutely singular technical approach,” according to Mille.

For example, in order to ensure that the alarm doesn’t interfere with the manual-winding movement, the watchmaker created four partial prototypes and performed countless studies to accommodate 816 parts, including two barrels, seven hands, 11 displays and the tourbillon cage.

But the craziest detail about the RM 62-01 Tourbillon Vibrating Alarm ACJ is this: One of Richard Mille’s four watch constructors worked full-time for five years, sometimes with the help of an additional constructor, to build it.

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