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Ultra-thin watch with a thickness of only 1.75 mm (1.18 mm movement)
The first wristwatch launched by Richard Mille in collaboration with Ferrari
New patented ultra-flat escapement
The elegant movement mechanism is recognizable at a glance. An obsession with excellence, precision, reliability and innovation. A common goal of uncompromising performance. In 2021, Ferrari and Richard Mille join forces to form a long-term partnership, driven by a shared quest for perfection. Richard Mille celebrates this budding relationship with an extraordinary ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari.
Breaking the brand's established style norms, but staying true to its identity and spirit, this model pushes the limits of what's possible again by taking on the ultra-flat challenge.
Measuring just 1.75mm thick, the RM UP-01 Ferrari represents a triumph of technical prowess and embodies a new approach to watch mechanics where technology is more than ever determining aesthetics.
Models resulting from years of work, dozens of prototypes, and more than 6,000 hours of development and lab testing... The bottom cover doubles as a base plate to ensure overall shock resistance in all conditions.high quality replica watches
“For a project like this, it was necessary to put aside all the knowledge that we have accumulated over many years of practice, as well as all conceivable watchmaking standards,” explains Julien Boillat, Technical Director of Richard Mille Cases. "This is exactly what we have done throughout our collaboration with the laboratory of Audemars Piguet Le Locle. Removing the last few millimeters of depth is an extremely difficult and lengthy process."
The collaboration between Richard Mille and Scuderia Ferrari, most evident in the choice of materials and execution of the watch, also gives the project precisely the competitive spirit that is essential in the most exhilarating adventures. The RM UP-01 Ferrari embodies Ferrari's values, developing an elegant and recognizable movement mechanism. Their models make no concessions and often contradict current trends to create new aesthetic norms. The RM UP-01 Ferrari witnesses the best technical partnership these two iconic brands have to offer, combining their ideas, understandings, respective developments and shared values.
The challenge of tackling an ultra-flat watch precludes traditional movements with superimposed gears and hands. Therefore, Richard Mille chose to distribute the non-stackable components over a larger surface area by creating a perfect symbiotic relationship between the movement and the case, thus ensuring the necessary rigidity to each other. The RMUP-01 hand-wound movement with hour, minute and function selectors - capable of withstanding accelerations of over 5,000 grams - thus boasts a thickness of 1.18mm, a weight of 2.82g and a power reserve of 45 hours.replica HYT H1 watches
To ensure optimal functioning of the moving train, the baseplate and hollow bridges are made of grade 5 titanium, which guarantees perfect flatness without compromising strength. The patented extra-flat barrel is equipped with an extremely fine hairspring, and the structure of the escapement has been completely redesigned. To reduce depth, the small plates (guard pins) for the balance and darts—two components that prevent the anchor from slipping back during the free phase of the balance’s movement—were eliminated. The new, also patented, ultra-flat escapement replaces these "anti-reverse" elements with a slender fork with new horns. Again, the index is set aside in favor of a variable inertia balance wheel made of titanium, whose six weights allow for fine-tuning calibration of the adjustment mechanism.
In order to create such a slim watch, the winding mechanism had to be rethought and the winding stem also had to be eliminated, as its minimum diameter of 1.5 mm made it impossible to include it in such a slim watch. In its place are two crowns, one for function selection and the other for access to selected functions, both integrated into the case as movement wheels.replica luxury watches
“Even in the field of extreme flatness, we were determined to make a watch that met the same validation requirements as all of our other models. In the pursuit of absolute flatness, we had to offer a watch that was far from a ‘concept watch’ A watch that can meet the user’s daily life in any situation,” concludes Salvador Arbona, Technical Director of Watch Movements. Richard Miller.
As the material for the case - just 1.75mm thick and water-resistant to 10 meters - titanium was chosen for its combination of lightness and laboratory-tested resistance. Two sapphire crystals, one for the time indicator with the hands fixed directly to the gears and one above the regulator (balance-spring assembly) to show the movement of the movement, are also reduced to two tenths of a millimeter in thickness Calculated diameters to ensure their resistance during the testing phase. Each part has narrow tolerances and is extremely slender, requiring special attention and inspection at almost every stage of machining.
Just like the famous Italian car legend - and thanks to its extremely low weight, tonneau shape, splined screws, skeletonized bridges and level of finishing to Richard Mille's standards - the RM UP-01 Ferrari in the range The limited edition timepiece combines innovation with performance, strength and aesthetics.replica Bremont Kingsman Watches
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