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This year, as the Rallye des Princesses turned 18, its principal sponsor, Richard Mille celebrated its third year as main sponsor of an event that brings together, for a week of adrenaline and adventure, modern women, classic cars, and a few choice watches.

One of the interesting things about Richard Mille’s affiliation with leading athletes is that, as is famously true for Rafael Nadal, part of this bargain is that the watches are worn during the actual athletic events, which issues them to rare tests of the durability. The overall styling is bright and brash, but that’s the point for so many of the brand’s watches, also you can’t deny that the specifications are striking – 32g to get a self-winding watch is remarkable. The Richard Mille RM 67-02 Sprint and High Jump are priced in the united kingdom at #116,000 with taxes.One of those interesting things about Richard Mille’s association with top athletes is that, as is famously true for Rafael Nadal, part of this bargain is that the watches are worn during the genuine athletic events, which subjects them into uncommon tests of their durability. This is even more striking thinking about the typical cost of a Richard Mille watch, and that tradition continues with these two new watches. The overall styling is brilliant and brash, but that’s the purpose for so many of their brand’s watches, also you can’t deny that the specifications are striking – 32g to get a self-winding watch is remarkable. You can expect to see these watches around the wrists of Mutaz Essa Barshim and Wayde van Niekerk at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, which will take place in London from August 5 to August 13. The Richard Mille RM 67-02 Sprint and High Jump are priced in the UK at #116,000 with taxes.
As my co-pilot and I took off on the open road last week to participate in what is now officially called the “Rallye des Princesses Richard Mille,” we were happy to get away from our respective city-dwellers’ schedules to spend a few days behind the wheel of a roaring convertible zipping through the charming French countryside under a blazing sun.

The rally – which starts on a Sunday morning and ends the following Thursday night – is a five-day escapade for classic cars that begins at the Place Vendôme in Paris and meanders through country roads from chateau to golf course, from cathedral to alpine peak, before coming to an end on the Place des Lices in Saint Tropez. Here, the thrill is as much about the journey as it is the destination. Covering some 1,600 kilometers, the Rallye is the brainchild of a woman, Viviane Zaniroli (also the force behind the Rallye Neige et Glace and the TransMaroc) who in 2000 launched the first edition of the race, taking inspiration from the all-female Paris–Saint-Raphaël rally, which had run from 1929 to 1974.

Les Princesses is open only to women but there were a handful of husbands and other male hangers-on in tow, some designated as “followers” or photographers, alongside the teams providing roadside assistance or tending to organizational details. Pressed for time and pulled by other obligations, my co-pilot and I could only spare two days on the road at the wheel of a convertible fiat spider 500, a modern roadster provided by the Richard Mille organization, a tad loud but powerful, stable and agile on twisting and narrow country roads.

Each of us sporting an elaborate Richard Mille Celebrity Watches Replica timepiece – mine a RM 0701, a tonneau-shaped, curvaceous number with a diamond-set dial on a rose gold gourmette bracelet, and my co-pilot’s a fully diamond-pavé version – we embarked on the adventure, unsure what an all-female rally would bring to bear.

Over 200 women had made the commitment, with 98 participating cars registered in what is essentially a “regularity” race, meaning that it measures not speed but precision in following a road book handed out daily to great anticipation, within a speed average that leaves little room for U-turns.

That way, whether you are driving a Ferrari 328 GTB 1988 (no. 88) or a Mini Innocenti Cooper 1973 (no. 70) – the latter, a returning participant and last year’s overall winner – you stand the same chances of winning either a segment or the entire race. In 2015, the rally implemented the Tripy GPS system used in the Dakar and Monte Carlo Historic rallies, thanks to which it is now able, via satellite, to make more frequent regulatory checks, provide accurate rankings and tracking of driving teams.

Mr. Mille has cleverly tapped into an event supercharged with female power. His sponsorship is perfectly coherent with his brand’s image and DNA. Given that his clientele is now 25 percent female, it is only natural for Mr. Mille, who has just signed a 10-year partnership with McLaren, to tap into a niche market of women who appreciate mechanical performance and share the same values of precision, elegance, and glamour.

Mr. Mille himself was present, while we were there, only in spirit and in print on the banners that welcomed the cars at each stop of the race, having travelled to the US to lend his support to Simon Pagenaud, the French professional driver racing for Team Penske while sporting a RM 11-02 Automatic Dual Time Zone in the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 28. For those of us running on this side of the pond, at each pit stop, Mr. Mille’s logo was a welcoming sign of relief: you knew you had arrived at destination when the black and white banners bearing Mr. Mille’s name came into view.

Visually entertaining were the “flower power” stickers on some cars, and the driver duos wearing matching and often amusing outfits, some in girlie pinks complete with fashion accessories, every detail meticulously thought-through before the race. But do not be fooled by the display of lighthearted, girlish silliness. Here, the women know their cars and come for the thrill of the race. As true aficionados, they endure the daily 400-km-plus drive through sometimes challenging roads, suffering the thinly padded car seats hardened by age and the lack of discernible suspension, under a pounding sun with no air conditioning, inhaling fumes rich in oil and gasoline, all for the pleasure of taking in the charm of a vintage car, the patina of old metal, the sound of a roaring engine and the scent of a bygone era.

The pause at the Chateau de Pont-Chevron, deep in the Loire valley in a town oddly called Ouzouer-sur-Trézée, was something out of a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Facing the lawn of the 19th century chateau overlooking the stillness of an immense lake where we halted for a light lunch served in a “dependence” of the property, one could almost imagine Jay Gatsby standing on the mansion’s terrace, staring across the vastness of the pond toward Daisy Buchanan’s house, his yellow 1932 Duesenberg parked out front.

For Trui Vanhaelemeesch and Sophie Ghesquière from Belgium driving a Fiat Dino 2400 spider (1971), the Rallye des Princesses means getting together every spring with like-minded friends for a week of competition and good fun. “We have been doing this race for years,” said Ms. Ghesquière, an anesthesiologist by trade, during dinner our first night in Saint-Aignan. “We finally bought our own car. I have a mathematical mind, so I measure the distances and speed averages and my partner drives. We never switch.”

The crossing the Alps on the way to Mandelieu before Saint Tropez promised even more spectacular sceneries and technical segments that, sadly, we missed. When we quit the race in Vichy to take a train back to Paris, at the halfway point of the itinerary, our heads were filled with the sprawling views of wheat fields and the lingering smell of pines trees, and our minds with the assurance that the women we met were in the race were there to win, to be girls for a week, and to crush any lingering stereotypes about their commitment to precision, endurance and things mechanical.

Photo gallery © Jules Langeard

The latest of the watches that Richard Mille and Rafael Nadal have developped together since 2010 is no disappointment. In terms of shock resistance, the tourbillon movement expands the horizons of technical performance.

Aesthetically, the timepiece alludes to the Spanish tennis champion’s masterful character. Roland-Garros was an obvious choice of venue to present this new timepiece. Clay courts are the preferred playing surface for Rafael Nadal, nine-time winner of the French Open. Slow and sensitive, clay calls for an aggressive playing style that nonetheless respects the fundamental principles of the discipline. Likewise, this new watch reconciles innovations at the level of materials with a testament to horological architecture.

All this noted, thanks to its above Magic Mixture of pricing and recognizability, the RM011 became the most “go-to, f**k-all rich watch” of our time — and while the uncannily amazing wearing comfort along with the balance of design is what makes it the grail Richard Mille for many, it could at this point be a bit too ubiquitous (as much as a $150,000-dollar watch may possibly be). Therefore, I imagine there to be an increasing group of buyers who want all that Richard Mille as a watch new can offer, minus the immediate attention and all that comes with that. And that is where a sleeper Richard Mille comes to the picture.The Richard Mille RM033 belongs to what’s an exclusive, though gradually expanding collection of Richard Mille watches: that of the curved ones. If you really, really know watches very well, then you will probably be able to tell from the opposite side of the dinner table that this is a Richard Mille — but the most people I have met, even people who are in the watch business, couldn’t tell that this was “an RM. “The Richard Mille branding in 12 o’clock is nearly microscopic and while the large, futuristic looking Arabic numerals are very much an RM design, they from afar I presume are difficult to tell apart from the busy appearing, skeletonized movement right behind them. There is another version of the RM033 with bold Roman numerals all around the dial — that is a more frequently seen iteration of the RM033 that I guess a few more would have recognized out of a distance.So, while Richard Mille’s tonneau shaped watches would be, instead deservedly, stated to be strings that lots of wear not only for themselves, but only as much for other people to see, the new round watches, and notably this really RM033, is the specific opposite of all that.At 45.70mm wide and available in ceramic, or 18k white or red gold, the Richard Mille RM033 is just 6.30mm thick, all cased up. Although that renders it one fantastic thing to hold in the hand, such filigree dimensions also allow the RM033 to slip under shirt sleeves easily. Wearability we’ll talk about in only a bit, but because we are talking exterior, let’s take a better look at the quality of implementation.

The striking red and yellow hues of the Tourbillon RM 27-03 Rafael Nadal’s Quartz TPT® case pay homage to Rafa’s native Spain. The intense burst of colour is achieved by impregnating fine layers of silica just 45 microns thick with tinted resin according to a proprietary process developed in Switzerland that stacks the filaments in layers before heating them to 120 °C. When it comes to releasing a new shade of Quartz TPT®, achieving colour stability compliant with REACH standards while resolving issues of biocompatibility and durability represents a tremendous display of prowess on the part of the engineers at Richard Mille and North Thin Ply Technology (NTPT®). And once the composite is produced, there remain many hours of milling and finishing operations to produce the case and components.

The quartz fibres used in this case, which is water resistant to 50 metres, offer a very advantageous strength/weight ratio, as well as being anallergic and highly resistant to UV rays. But the main innovation of this watch lies in the capacity of its tourbillon calibre to withstand shocks up to 10,000 g’s. This new threshold has been attained thanks to years of R&D and countless hours of tests, particularly ‘pendulum impact testing’ which simulates the linear acceleration that occurs due to sudden movements or shock to the wearer.

This virtual indestructability is vouchsafed by assembly of the ultralight tourbillon calibre on the skeletonised unibody baseplate of Carbon TPT® with a precision to the nearest micron, while the reduced number of components in this configuration permits additional weight savings, lightening the whole watch. The rapid winding barrel provides an unvarying flow of energy for the full 70 hours of running time.

The finishing of the RM 27-03 calibre presents hand-polished tapered anglage and satin surfaces that set off the sparkle of finely microblasted elements. The RM 27-03 offers an impressive play of volumes. Highly stylised, the sharp, streamlined curves of the skeletonised bridges encircling the barrel, the great wheel and the mechanical winding tourbillon beating at 3 Hz together evoke the forward-facing head of a bull. A symbol of Spain, this animal is also Nadal’s chosen emblem. As a playful nod, winding and hand setting are conducted using a torque-limiting crown of Quartz TPT® in the shape of a tennis ball.