RICHARD MILLE’S RM 07-01 AND RM 037
For its new ladies’ collection, Richard Mille’s exclusive gem-set Carbon TPT ® lends the timepieces an elegant character
CARBON TPT® a signature feature of the Richard IS Mille men’s collection. Indeed, it lends watches a unique and powerful appearance while simultaneously ensuring an optimal protection for the calibre. Today, this material reveals its feminine side in the RM 07-01 and RM 037, which boast gem-set Carbon TPT® of unsurpassed elegance, a Richard Mille exclusive.
At the slightest wrist movement, all eyes are riveted by a striking contrast between the sparkle of clear diamonds and the matt carbon contour that adorn both of these automatic timepieces.
Setting gemstones in Carbon TPT® is a new adventure for the brand. Unlike gold, which can be worked directly with tools to create the prongs that will hold the diamonds, the hardness and resistance of Carbon TPT® mean special CNC machines for milling equipped with diamond tools are required to perform the mitraillage involved in a pavé setting.
Hand-polished prongs in red or white gold are produced separately and then inserted around the many 0.25mm bearings destined to firmly contain as many as 250 diamonds in the case of an RM 037 Full Set model. The perfectly flush surface of each creation bears witness to an absolute mastery of this art.
Thanks to the technicity of their inhouse calibres and their cases adorned with diamonds and Carbon TPT®— immutable materials—the RM 07-01 and the RM 037 are particularly balanced and refined models.