Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 108

?Tourbillon Split-Seconds Chronograph - RM008? Richard Mille, ?Tourbillon Split-Seconds Chronograph - RM008?, No. 01. Production of this reference started in 2004. Extremely fine, rare and very unusual, tonneau-shaped and curved, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, square button split-seconds chronograph, register, torque indicator, power-reserve and an 18K pink gold Richard Mille buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

USD 250,000 - 350,000

EUR 185,000 - 260,000

Sold: USD 299,600

C. Three-body, solid, matte and polished, bezel with 12 special milled titanium screws, reinforced case band, transparent case back with 8 special milled titanium screws, rubber-coated winding crown to select a neutral, winding or hand-setting position, 3 pushbuttons to control the chronograph functions, curved and anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Transparent with white Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions with 5-minute luminous dot markers, at 1 sector for the torque indication, at 4 indicator for the winding, neutral and handsetting position, at 11 sector for the up-and-down indication, at 6 aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a V-shaped titanium bridge. Titanium ?skeleton? hands with luminous tips. M. Cal. RM 008-1, tonneau-shaped, PVD-coated titanium, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, titanium tourbillon carriage with 3 equidistant arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 39 x 48 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Property of an English Gentleman


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Richard Mille After a long and successful career in the watch industry, Richard Mille presented his own line of watches in 2001, demonstrating a very unconventional and radical high-tech approach to fine watchmaking. His timepieces break new technical and esthetic ground ? taking inspiration from Formula One racecars, materials and production processes. They are developed in close cooperation with Audemars Piguet?s Renaud & Papi division, among the watch industry?s most innovative technical leaders. Using materials like ceramic, titanium or chronifer, an anti-magnetic alloy, most Richard Mille watches have innovative features like a co-axial button in the crown to select neutral, winding or hand-setting positions, very much like selecting gears in a race car, titanium or carbon nanofiber movement plates and a torque indicator, which displays the actual strength of the mainspring. Traditional techniques, materials and skills are equally important in building these radically different watches.