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RICHARD MILLE RM 27-01 TOURBILLON RAFAEL NADAL

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Made of titanium and a lithium alloy, this watch may be super-light but the tennis player, one of the very few who wears a watch while playing, managed to ruin five of them while doing so. A new developmen­t was required to allow it to handle constant high vibrations. The solution? To suspend the entire movement on four 0.35mm thick braided steel cables, allowing it to withstand accelerati­ons of more than 5000G.

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