When Richard Mille kicked off its Ferrari partnership last summer, it took the checkered flag for ultrathin watches with the RM UP-01 Ferrari, clocking in at a record-breaking 1.75 mm thick and the staggering price of $1.88 million.
“Everything we learned in our 20 years at Richard Mille was thrown out the window to do this watch,” says Julien Boillat, the company’s technical director for cases.
And it shows. The UP-01, which is limited to 150 pieces, looks completely alien to not only other Richard Mille watches, but watches in general. The oblong timepiece spans the wrist, measuring 51 mm across and 39 mm from top to bottom with the time display in a small sub-dial at 12 o’clock, next to the spinning balance wheel in an aperture. Two disc-like crowns, integrated…
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Cigar Aficionado (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2022