How does a watch become a wearable race car? It’s complicated ...
The RM 65-01 shows what advanced tech looks like for the wrist. From our upcoming Machine supplement, featuring the best in cars, watches and things that move. Out in AFR Magazine on February 26.
Every part of the Richard Mille RM 65-01 boasts fastidious detailing.
This time 20 years ago a watch unlike any other was released, a watch described as “a racing machine on the wrist”. The phrase was coined not by a watchmaker, but by Richard Mille, a 50-year-old former marketing man who hankered for a watch that reflected his own exacting standards and interests – and ability to fund them.
Mille’s fascination with motor racing and its associated technologies and materials has subsequently driven the eponymously named watch brand he launched in 2001. Witness Mille’s latest horological statement, the RM 65-01, an automatic split-seconds chronograph that looks as complicated as it is.
