Richard Mille RM 27-03 Rafael Nadal watch

 

replica Richard Mille Rafael Nadal RM 27

Richard Mille RM 27-03 Rafael Nadal watch with tourbillon capable of withstanding 10,000 G

As a die-hard full-time watch nerd for a while now, I've found that even when looking at a complicated watch for the first time, I can identify its features and functions with great certainty, no matter how niche or odd they may be. One brand that still really amazes me is Richard Mille and today, just before the Roland Garros, they showed off their Richard Mille RM 27-03 Rafael Nadal “Tourbillon Shock Resistance”, the latest and greatest from Richard Mille The odd "Rafa" will be worn as he travels through time with his powerful forehand - likely on his way to another French Open title.

Specifically, what first baffled me about this new RM027 was the movement's supervillain-inspired style, the V-shaped structural elements... and then, secondly, the technical data items jumping to me from the usually long list Advanced: 10,000 g (measured in g-force). If you’re like me and think there’s a connection between these two very horologically atypical things, then you’re on the right track.discount replica watches

While I admit I'm no physicist, I can still safely say that 10,000 g is a hell of a lot of g - fighter pilots in crazy g-suits and stuff can handle about 0.1% of g. Now, for clarification - and I'm calling on Captain Wikipedia here to make sure this explanation is correct - "g-force (g comes from gravity) is a measurement of the type of acceleration that results in the perception of weight."

To give a real life example: when the pilot is really pushing the limits of his plane and himself (the plane actually outlives the pilot by a lot) and he pulls 10 g, it means he feels like his body "has weight ” 10 times the actual effect. When a Formula 1 driver corners at 3 grams, the 2 kg (5 lb) helmet on his head feels like it's triple that weight - and so on.

Needless to say, to play with 10,000 grams we had to scale things down quite a bit – down to the scale of watchmaking and its incredibly tiny yet powerful components. When developing and fine-tuning the Richard Mille RM 27-03 Rafael Nadal "Tourbillon Shock Resistant" watch, Richard Mille's engineers used a so-called "pendulum impact device" - although this is found in some watchmakers device, but it is still a rare and very rigorous method for testing the durability of luxury cheap watches for sale.

The pendulum tester does what it says on the cover: it has a hammer-like pendulum that can be released from a set angle, which in turn determines the force it will exert on the watch. Richard Mille stated that they have tested the RM 27-03 with the sapphire crystal facing the pendulum, the 9 o'clock position of the case and the side of the crown as the point of impact. The watch would then be catapulted into the net--I guess the game of "let's find the million-dollar prototype on the floor" would get tiresome pretty quickly.

As Richard Mille explains, all of this is because the impact of the ball colliding with the tennis racket is transmitted directly to the watch, just like the acceleration and deceleration produced by the many arm movements a player makes during a game. In addition, "according to measurements recorded by the Swiss microtechnology laboratory, the watch absorbs approximately 60 g of linear acceleration during an amateur tennis player's serve. It is easy to believe that, given Rafa's strength and his aggressive style of play, his case The resulting linear acceleration can easily exceed 100 g."

Apparently the goal of this, and in fact all previous RM027 models, was to demonstrate that a high-tech version of a mechanical movement equipped with a tourbillon can withstand extreme shocks if properly designed - while reminding everyone that Richard M. Richard Mille hasn't given up on maintaining its status as the leader in insanely cool (and insanely expensive) high-tech watchmaking.replica Grand Seiko Heritage

The Richard Mille RM 27-03 integrates the case and movement into a whole in a new way, which achieves excellent durability. The case is TPT Quartz, attached to a carbon TPT one-piece base plate, on which the grade 5 titanium bridges and reinforcements are mounted. We introduced the TPT quartz case technology when we discussed this piece's predecessor, the RM 27-02, here.

While the TPT material is extremely strong and featherlight, Richard Mille also had to drastically improve the tolerance settings for movement manufacturing and assembly. After visiting numerous manufacturers and talking to their engineers and designers, I know that the vast majority of watch movements have a minimum tolerance of 5 microns – or five thousandths of a millimeter. This is for the trickiest parts that require the highest precision, i.e. jewels that are drilled: extremely fragile and small pinion wheels are much easier on impact when two plates overlap each other and they fall on opposite ends of the tolerance range Fracture - This is why the amount of 5 microns was set.https://www.reviewluxurystore.com

Now, the RM 27-03's tourbillon and its components - the weakest part most vulnerable to strong impacts - are now manufactured with an astonishing precision of just 1 micron. one. I guess they figured out that they could produce parts with such close tolerances, but with five times the room to play with, they still met all the previous expectations without having to throw away most of the carefully crafted components.

Manufacturing parts with five times the precision - a 20 or 40 percent improvement would be impressive given the microscopic scale of things we're talking about, but to slash tolerances by a factor of five is entirely Richard Richard Mille's level of engineering that no one cares about... trivial as it may be, is also very impressive.

The one-minute tourbillon operates at 3 Hz, making 6 semi-oscillations per second, a feat that lasts 70 hours (+/- 10%, according to Richard Mille) before the fast-spinning barrel must be wound manually . Of course, the balance wheel is free bouncing with variable moment of inertia screws - a conventional setting mechanism is likely to go out of tune after the first few shocks, and tiny weight screws mounted around the balance wheel's periphery will help keep it calm.fake watches for men

As I said, all of this is set on a carbon TPT unibody base plate, which consists of multiple parallel layers of filaments, each up to 30 microns. To save weight - and to make the watch more comfortable and unobtrusive for Rafa to wear while racing - the multi-layered carbon plate has been hollowed out, an absolute neck-sore drill when this ultra-hard material is gobbled up first, Then, when one half of it is machined, it is difficult to hold it securely so that it can be machined on the other half.

All in all, the benefit of Carbon TPT is a grade 5 titanium bridge – meaning an alloy of 90% titanium, 6% aluminum, and 4% vanadium. A lightweight one-piece bridge on the movement helps keep everything secure, anchoring the mainspring, gear train and tourbillon to the carbon base. Richard Mille has added an unusual design element to its movement, with a top part reminiscent of the forward-facing head of a bull, a symbol of Spain and one chosen by Nadal. The RM027 collection has always put high-tech engineering at the forefront, so now, after a series of pieces for Rafa, the brand at least seems to be getting more interesting than just the color (as another option for the brand) to pay homage to the Spaniard ), and some other elements. While it looks cool, I thought, I'd rather leave it out,

Regardless, wearing comfort should be excellent thanks to the ultra-light case, movement and strap – although this time around Richard Mille chose not to disclose the weight of the piece. The focus this time around seems to be on greatly increasing strength and durability rather than reducing weight, which is why the RM 27-03 may be a few grams heavier than its predecessor.Jacob & Co Astronomia Sky Dragon