The New Ladies’ RM 71-01 by Richard Mille

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Richard Mille unveiled their new women’s RM 71-01 timepiece in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo’s swanky Monsieur Bleu restaurant overlooking the Seine. In an unusual turn for the brand, the new timepiece comes as a collection of 10 watches (400,000 CHF each excluding VAT or approximately $404,733 at current exchange) instead of one, with only five of each version available. Each feature variations on the mother-of-pearl, onyx, and diamond settings. It marks the first collection overseen from top to bottom by Richard Mille’s Cécile Guenat, the watchmaker’s director of ladies’ collections.

The highlight of this new collection is not only its unique design conceived by Guenat, but the watchmaker’s first-ever, in-house automatic tourbillon movement, the Calibre CRMT1—the brand’s 8th in-house calibre. Richard Mille’s commitment to making high-complications and in-house movements for women is a major point of interest for its discerning clientele. One female collector present at the event told us she never buys a timepiece without at least one complication. “I don’t think most watch brand’s take women seriously,” said the collector, who preferred to remain anonymous. “That’s why I keep coming back to this brand. That, and the fact that I can wear their timepieces every day because they are so lightweight and comfortable—they never end up in a winder or in my safe.” The new RM 71-01 has a thickness of 6.2 mm and a weight of just 8 grams with the Calibre CRMT1 clothed in lightweight titanium.

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