we were determined to make a watch that met the same validation requirements as all our other models,” says Salvador Arbona, who is the Richard Mille technical director for movements.

Richard Mille made its first in-house movement in 2012 with the CRMA1 in the RM 037 ladies’ automatic, while the newer lightweight CRMA7 and CRMA8 are used in sports watches The RM 72-01 ...

Richard Mille ... it the second-thinnest watch in the world, only surpassed by the Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra Mark II at 1.7mm. It fetched nearly $1.4 million. The movement was developed through ...

A year prior, Richard Mille had launched the RM 07-01 Snow Set, bringing its own take on the highly bejewelled mechanical watch movement for women. Chopard’s co-CEO and artistic director ...

In order to make the watch thin, Richard Mille’s tactic was to distribute the components across a large surface area rather than stacking them, as in a traditional movement. But micro-thin ...