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Perched on the river bank at the heart of Shanghai’s Bund Finance Center, the Building by Foster + Partners in collaboration with Heatherwick Studio is inspired by traditional Chinese theatres and features an incredible moving façade composed of multilayered curtain-like bronze tubes.

Alongside similar curves and perspectives, the RM 67.01 Automatic Extra Flat by Richard Mille and the Fosun Foundation designed by Foster + Partners, located at the heart of the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai, share the same sense of aesthetic motion, both literally and figuratively. A glimpse from three angles.

A constantly changing aesthetic

Built at the heart of the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai, the Fosun Foundation building by the Foster + Partners architecture firm rises to the challenge of giving this place a literally moving façade. Designed like a curtain of bronze tubes whose shape recalls a row of bamboo stalks, the façade is composed of several layers moving independently of each other. This fluid rotating movement modifies the surface of the building and the perception of its depth through fascinating light and shade effects. A sense of motion that reminds one of that exemplified by the RM 67.01 Automatic Extra Flat watch. On this model, the flow of time is expressed with great lightness through the hours and minutes hands, as well as the date indication appearing in a discreet window at 5 o’clock.

Mirrored technical sophistication

Successfully transforming the façade of a building that is itself destined to remain immobile reflects an architectural vision firmly anchored in the 21st century. The technology involved in displacing the various bronze tube layers in a wave-like movement demonstrates great modernity and a new approach to architecture. Like the building created by Foster + Partners, the RM 67.01 Automatic Extra Flat watch reveals an identical quest for technical sophistication. The art of extreme thinness calls for highly specific expertise. Nonetheless, through aesthetic subterfuges applied to the complex case that involves 215 different machining operations, and to the openworked dial enhanced with Super-LumiNova®, Richard Mille manages to highlight the volumes and invites the gaze to plunge into the fascinating depths of its perspective.

A classic heritage as the bedrock of futurism

While the façade of the Fosun Foundation is fully in tune with its time, it in no way departs from the cultural roots of its surroundings. The use of the bamboo aesthetic illustrates this determination to remain firmly attached to traditions. The same philosophy governs the RM 67.01 Automatic Extra Flat which, in line with all Richard Mille Watches Cost Replica creations, evokes its horological heritage without losing sight of a futurism and extreme technical sophistication. Embodied by the openworked mechanical movement partially revealed through its most emblematic elements like the wheels, rotor and screws, the discreet nod to traditional Haute Horlogerie serves a vivid reminder that innovation cannot dispense with technical heritage.

Richard Mille RM 67-01 Automatic Extra Flat
Case : grade 5 titanium
It’s a great opportunity for Richard Mille to experiment with colours and further develop the mythical RM 11 watch collection which helped put the brand on the map. In its advanced form, the RM 11 has the same useful movements, but a exotic case produced from Quartz TPT, a substance made in Switzerland and borrowed from functionality vehicles. The substance is a dense layering of countless sheets of silica that are mere microns thick for each coating. The blue is only cosmetic, but it wouldn’t be a Richard Mille without an invigorated splash of color.Richard Mille first published a Quartz TPT-cased wait back in 2015 using the RM 27-02 Rafael Nadal. In that previous article you can find out more about the lightweight, yet very robust and visually intriguing material. It is not as iconic as gold or platinum (but you can not “impregnate” — which is the actual term Richard Mille uses — those traditional luxury materials with colours like blue, red, yellow, yellow, and white as has been achieved to a range of high-end limited watches by the manufacturer). A brief glance at Richard Mille watches produced from Quartz TPT coated on aBlogtoWatch shows the visual variety accessible — more so, how effective utilization of exotic and contemporary materials such as this have been to get a brand like Richard Mille.Richard Mille himself, and the newest do indeed hang closely by people like Mr. Todt. Part of the honesty in their connection is what makes limited editions such as this perhaps more intriguing to watch fans than those we see from a number of other watch brands where the relationship feels a lot more like easy marketing. This Jean Todt and Richard Mille would continue to celebrate Todt’s life and achievements together makes sense — partially because Mr. Todt himself would be the archetype of somebody who should be a Richard Mille client.
Dimensions : 38.70 x 47.52 x 7.75 mm
Movement : skeletonized mechanical self-winding ultra-thin, Caliber CRM16, 50-hour power reserve
Functions : hours, minutes, date, function selector
Caseback : sapphire crystal

With this unprecedented marriage of diamond and black ceramic, the brand illustrates its determination to develop its offerings for women who are as much fascinated by technicity as by beauty. The RM 07-01 in gem-set black ceramic will be on view for a sneak peek at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, next January.

“After our work on setting gems in Carbon TPT®, we wanted to extend this innovative setting technique to new materials”, explains Cécile Guenat, Technical Director for Jewellery-making at Richard Mille. “We naturally gravitated to ceramic, because it had never been done before. There is now no subterfuge in the way diamonds are incorporated, thanks to way the mitraillage is performed by machining the material directly.”

In addition to its exceptional hardness and scratch resistance, black TZP ceramic possesses an extremely fine grain, ensuring a perfect finish with a matte effect. The latter is the outcome of a long and delicate process of milling and micro-shot peening, whereas showcasing the complex shapes of the bezel and case bottom requires the intervention of a finisher, who polishes each angle by hand.

Separately produced, and carefully polished, red gold prongs are embedded in the many settings, each 0.25 millimetre in diameter, receiving and holding fast the full-cut diamonds of exceptional clarity. Thus do the velvety black of the ceramic and the sparkle of diamonds set each other off spectacularly. The same is also true for the 5N red gold dial, set with black onyx and diamonds.

This noted, I can still enjoy it for what I mentioned above: to find this type of detail in this quantity, you either go for a near six-figure watch or you will miss out. Having seen numerous manufactures and handled so many costly watches, it’s mind-numbingly complex and difficult-to-make details like this that are what actually make a watch stick out from the rest. And if there is anything that I do enjoy in a Richard Mille view, it’s you could sort of get lost in it and expect to discover such details even weeks after sporting the watch.And I’m sorry, but a conventional watch with a conventional exterior must possess one totally amazing movement to warrant a similar six-figure price — and again, lots of collectors who today are buying (and sporting) Richard Milles do so since a new dial onto a 5270 often just is not exciting enough when on other watches everywhere you look, you see detailing which won’t ever be current on proudly conventional watches. Before you light your torches and pull out your pitchforks, I’m not saying one is superior to the other, or one should not exist and the other should, but rather that beyond the show-off element, there is another reason why Richard Mille watches (and other people, like an MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual or Urwerk UR-110, et cetera) do so well at a period while others struggle.What leaves room for criticism concerning the situation itself is the fact that 18k white gold scratches if you look at it the wrong way — things tougher than white gold include melting icehockey, or even the Queen’s royal selection of feather cushions. The ceramic alternative won’t be that much better, but will surely offer an improvement in this regard, at a price of lost sheen that only valuable metals can produce. Water resistance, despite the double-O ring crown is rated for 30m. I keep saying all contemporary watches should have at least 100m depth rating, though the way things are going, 30-50m seems to become the standard among non-dive watches.
The timpeiece houses the in-house Calibre CRMA2, an automatic movement assembled on a baseplate and bridges crafted in grade 5 titanium. Its variable-geometry rotor in 18-carat 5N red gold makes it possible to adjust the automatic winding to the activity levels of its wearer.