Today we present Richard Mille's Tourbillon Prototype Yohan Blake.
RICHARD MILLE
Richard Mille is a French businessman and in 2001 founded the watchmaking company that bears his name.
The brand has gained widespread recognition for its unique designs and unrestrained drive for perfection and the highest possible quality. Richard Mille sponsors sport and film celebrities such as Brazillian Formula One driver, Felipe Massa, Spanish tennis player, Rafael Nadal, Jamaican Sprinter, Yohan Blake and Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong action film superstar. The brand collaborated with Massa, Blake and Yeoh in developing special edition watches. Blake apparently broke Olympic sponsor contracts by wearing a customised Tourbillon in Jamaica's national colours (the actual watch featured in this years Only Watch auction), where he should have been wearing nothing or Olympic sponsor Omega SA.
The following video showcases three Richard Mille models, the Panda Tourbillon, the Aviation and the Skull Nano-Ceramic. Unique design, high-tech materials, and ultra-innovative architechture, every detail makes a Richard Mille watch an exclusive timepiece full of character and a look that is instantly recognizable.
These Richard Mille timepieces have been created through the application of new materials, methods and concepts in watchmaking the majority of which have never been used before.From an article on Present Watch
The concept was based on three pillars: the best of the technique and innovation; an important artistic and architectural dimension, a watch easy to use, robust; and at last the best of the watch culture, each piece being polished and finished by hand.
Within this short period the brand has skyrocketed to the forefront, gaining the attention of watch collectors and media alike, being defined as one of the most ultimate and exclusive wristwatches available in the market today, as well as representing a watershed break with traditional watchmaking.
With its core of operations located in Les Breuleux, Switzerland, a village long associated with the Swiss watchmaking tradition, Richard Mille Watches produces his timepieces, with his partner Dominique Guenat.
The heart of the company is located in the extraordinary setting of Chateau de Monbouan, France, and it is from here that Richard Mille creates the designs and concepts of every possible detail of the watches bearing his name, and also develops his brand.
Richard Mille showcased some amazing timepieces at this years SIHH trade fair in Geneva, Switzerland. The fair attracts a gathering of the most prestigious names in the world of fine watches. Please note that this video is in 3D and glasses are required.
Maria Doulton of the Jewellery Editor managed to sit down with reigning 100m World Champion Yohan Blake to talk about his collaboration with Richard Mille. The result is the luminous RM 59-01 Tourbillon, and Richard Mille CEO Peter Harrison was also there to tell us all about it.
Catalogue Description:
| RICHARD MILLE "TOURBI LLON PROTOTYPE YOHAN BLAKE" FOR ONLY WAT CH This is the very watch worn by Yohan Blake at the 2012 London Olympic Games where he won three medals and also at the Diamond League in Lausanne where he won the 100m and became the second fastest sprinter of all time over distance, beating his personal best. Fine and unique piece, very light, tonneau shaped and curved, case in magnesium WE 54, one-minute tourbillon at 6 O'clock. Complete with presentation box and Certificate. | |
| C. Made of magnesium WE 54 alloy with Miarox® treatment. The case is assembled with 12 spline screws in grade 5 titanium. D. FLANGE Green flange and crown, crystal in sapphire with anti-glare treatment. M. MOVEMENT Manual winding extra skeletonised tourbillon with curved baseplate and bridges. MAIN FEATURES Baseplate, bridges and balance clock made of grade 5 titanium, free sprung balance with variable inertia, fast rotating barrel, barrel pawl with progressive recoil, winding barrel teeth and third-wheel pinion with central involute profile. OTHER FEATURES Balance in Glucydur, 2 arms, 4 setting screws, inertia moment 11.50 mg.cm2, angle of lift 53°, frequency: 21,600 vph (3Hz), 19 jewels. | |
| Estimate: 450,000 EUR - 500,000 EUR |
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