richard mille watches rm 011 replica Archives - AAA+ Fashion Replica Watches

These brand new watches are called the Richard Mille RM 67-02 High Jump and RM 67-02 Sprint, for its athletes’ various events.Before we talk about the watches, it is necessary to talk first about Richard Mille’s latest ambassadors. He won a silver medal in the 2016 Olympics. In addition, he holds the planet’s best time at the 300-meter. And that is not all, as he is also the only sprinter ever to have run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds, the 200 meters in under 20 minutes, the 300 meters in less than 31 seconds, along with the 400 meters in under 44 seconds.Impressive athletes for sure, but definitely also impressive are the new Richard Mille RM 67-02 Sprint and High Jump watches. The RM 67-02 relies on the earlier Richard Mille RM 67-01 (hands-on here) and can be regarded as the sports version. Both RM 67-02 watches have exactly the same movement as the RM 67-01, but have different instances that were designed specifically for the two athletes.

It is no coincidence that watchmaking is hot on the tracks of prestige automobiles. Despite debates on their relevance, pollution, congestion and other unpleasant factors, cars remain an extraordinary object of desire and a means of expression, of escapism, of pleasure. Watches share with them an appeal to a certain part of the brain in men (and sometimes women), a mechanical nature as well as an underlying philosophy. Almost all high-end automobile makes are thus in partnership with a watch brand. In most instances, the connection is superficial. Watches do not pick up automobile identity, nor its aesthetic codes, nor even in certain cases a comparable degree of exclusivity. That is because a name on a dial or a wheel rimshaped oscillating weight are not enough. But when the relationship is long-term and permeates the deepest, innermost levels, it reaches a whole new level. Merged codes and mutual admiration are the authentic drivers of truly motor-loving watchmaking.

History

Spending serious time on the tracks and with drivers and manufacturers naturally contributes to forging an identity. Heuer, and more recently TAG Heuer, has cultivated close ties with motorsports since the 1920s, a logical reality for a brand focused on chronographs, a complication predestined for racing paddocks.

Rolex has chosen an even more intensive approach. In the 1960s, the brand with the crown logo made its first foray into driver’s watches with its Daytona. The latter bears the name of the famous Florida racing track, and has become a legend in its own right. This is the model presented to the winners of the countless competitions that Rolex sponsors as a timekeeper or official watch, including the F1 championship, the FIA Endurance championship, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans…

Identity

Roger Dubuis has joined the race somewhat belatedly but with undeniable vigour. Keenly aware that its clients are wild about high-speed cars and racing, the brand has associated first with Pirelli, the tire manufacturer most closely associated with tracks, and then with ItalDesign, founded by one of the kings of automobile design, Giugiario. It will soon be partnering Lamborghini, which shares its uncompromising attitude focused on design and performance.

For Rebellion, which has since the outset been backed by a racing team bearing the same name, motorsports are a fundamental part of its history. The brand cultivates a design and a watchmaking approach inspired by automobile components. The latest interpretation of this theme, the Predator 2.0 GMT, notably features a minutes’ hand shaped like a brake caliper and disk.

Intimacy

The most powerful results are achieved when the design of the watch, its materials, its shape and its creation actually involve car industry stakeholders. Richard Mille Watches Overrated Replica has a new partnership with McLaren across all its divisions.

The spirit of excellence and a love of pistons amount to more than just a common denominator between Mr Mille, himself a keen driver, and the English marque that has won countless titles in competitions since 1963. Hublot has built a fruitful partnership with Ferrari, which could easily have crushed it with the weight of its prestige and its history. Instead, their relationship is so well-balanced that Hublot entrusted the Maranello-based design studio with creating its latest watch, a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the prancing horse.

The result is a true hybrid cross between a case, a carbon cell and a tubular chassis. The Techframe Ferrari Tourbillon Chronograph reflects the technical nature and the performance of these noble speed machines. Yet such initiatives remain exceptional occurrences that are countless laps ahead of mere superficial brand-name bonding.

If there’s one retailer who cannot be accused of being tight-lipped, it’s the founder of the Parisian watch mecca, Chronopassion. Laurent Picciotto was also invited to be master of ceremonies at the 2009 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. Comfortably ensconced in a club armchair, in his Ali Baba’s cave of an office on the lower floor of his store, surrounded by guitars and model motorbikes, he muses on the wisdom of vintage watch collectors. It’s his belief that, a few decades hence, we will look back on the 2000s as haute horlogerie’s most fertile years.

Laurent Picciotto in his office © WorldTempus/Brice Lechevalier

Why buy a watch for 5 million when it cost $300?

“The stories we’re hearing from the sale rooms these days are quite disturbing,” declares the man who entrusted a good portion of his personal collection to Aurel Bacs (Phillips, Bacs & Russo), to auction off in Hong Kong last spring. “At the sale, I met many collectors and clients who had switched over to vintage. I told them I was puzzled: you say you’re not interested in contemporary haute horlogerie, but you know very well that every object, no matter what it is, will be vintage one day! And beginning in the year 2000, we saw the biggest surge in haute horlogerie creation in the entire history of the wristwatch.” A number of factors came into play: “A resurgence of complications, growing confidence among independents, the emergence of vigorous new niche brands, which were enthusiastically adopted by the market, with relatively buoyant prices, a reaction from the big institutional brands, who rose to the challenge of contemporary haute horlogerie, confirming that they too could outdo themselves…” Laurent Picciotto believes that some creations were more contemporary art than watchmaking. “There was genius in the air! I think the first decade of the 21st century will be recognised as a milestone, and in due course enthusiasts will look back with nostalgia on a decade when we had such a concentration of talent.”

Gibson Les Paul electric guitar

As a musician himself, he compares the 2000s in watchmaking to the 1970s in rock, which witnessed the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. He expands his argument: “You meet clients who have turned their backs on contemporary watches, and now look at pieces in terms of their rarity value alone, regardless of their intrinsic worth. Watches that were mass-produced back then in huge quantities, that cost a few hundred dollars, some people are now prepared to spend 5 million on them.” For this enlightened French retailer, these vintage watches often have no technical interest, unlike contemporary haute horlogerie watches. “I am extremely familiar with this kind of approach, and you either go for it or you don’t. But a watch isn’t going to magically transform into an haute horlogerie creation because someone’s paid 5 million for it at auction.” Making a further comparison with the music world, he takes the example of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul, considered the Holy Grail of electric guitars: “Not many were made, they were hand-crafted, not mass-produced, and they cost $265. Today they can go for $200,000, up to a million; even more if they were owned by a star. But the big difference is that, when I play this guitar, I know that there hasn’t really been anything better, either before or since. However, when it comes to the standardised movements in vintage watches, these days the industry is producing movements that are far higher quality, and more original.” The retailer concludes (as we would expect, given his business interests): “The vintage thing is quite disconcerting. Sometimes, it feels like a mug’s game.”

The Only Watch phenomenon

In case you missed it, the biennial Only Watch sale saw 50 unique pieces sold for a total of over ten million francs. That’s very good news for myopathy research, which took all the proceeds, and for the watch industry, which can take it as a solid mark of confidence. The results varied significantly depending on the brand; seven watches went for CHF 100,000 or more. Is it an indicator of future brand value? According to Laurent Picciotto, “The role of dealers in the vintage market should not be underestimated; values have been fabricated by the markets for years, in our industry as in others. When you look at Only Watch, all the elements come together: not only the intrinsic strength of the brand, but also the various interests of certain buyers, who might prefer to buy an extremely expensive unique piece to preserve the value of their collection.”

It is a terrific chance for Richard Mille Watches Online Replica to experiment with colors and further develop the mythical RM 11 view 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 material made in Switzerland and made from performance vehicles. The substance is a dense layering of hundreds of sheets of silica that are mere microns thick for each layer. The blue is only cosmetic, but it wouldn’t be a Richard Mille with no 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’ll be able to find out more about the lightweight, yet very robust and visually intriguing substance. No, it isn’t as iconic as silver or gold (but you can not “impregnate” — which is the actual term Richard Mille uses — these traditional luxury materials with colors like blue, black, red, yellow, yellow, and white since was achieved to a assortment of high-end limited watches by the manufacturer). A brief glance at Richard Mille watches produced from Quartz TPT coated on aBlogtoWatch demonstrates the visual variety accessible — more so, how successful utilization of exotic and contemporary materials such as this have been for a brand like Richard Mille.Richard Mille himself, along with the brand do indeed hang closely with folks like Mr. Todt. Part of this honesty in their connection is the thing that makes limited editions such as this perhaps more interesting to watch lovers than those we see from many other watch brands in which the relationship feels a lot more like easy marketing. This Jean Todt and Richard Mille would continue to celebrate Todt’s own life and achievements together makes sense — partially because Mr. Todt himself would be the archetype of somebody who should be a Richard Mille customer.

The unique piece by Audemars Piguet was one of the standout results, with the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar selling for 800,000 francs. “We’re starting to see Royal Oaks from 1972 being sold for around 100,000 euros, which makes Audemars Piguet a brand whose prices make it attractive for both old and new watches. But it has to be sustained.” While on the theme of the Only Watch ‘100,000 Club’, Laurent Picciotto shares his thoughts on the use of the term ‘unique piece’: “A truly unique piece implies the creation of something more consequential than just a dial. Look at the approach of Urwerk and Laurent Ferrier, for example; there’s a truly emotional dimension, and that has far more meaning to me. They have executed a stylistic exercise that pushes the boundaries. But this is Urwerk, not Audemars Piguet, so the bidding stopped at 100,000. Which, in fact, is pretty cheap for a piece that genuinely conveys the emotion of its two creators!” Noting that some companies make an effort, while others make a mockery of the concept, the champion of independent watchmakers recalls the Only Watch timepieces created in 2005 and 2007 by Richard Mille and Philippe Starck: “Their association was exemplary, and their creative process was authentic, and that’s part of what gives watch brands an attractive history.”