When Technology Meets Elegance - Richard Mille RM 026 Tourbillon Watch

For 2011 collection, Richard Mille unveiled its new tourbillon timepiece – the RM 026, which is presenting to us a fabulous union of sophisticated watchmaking technique and high quality jewelry. This new watch sparkles with the two precious snakes, which are meanwhile designed for keeping the tourbillon movement in place. One of the snakes in 18k white gold is adorned with ruby and diamond, and the other, emerald and diamond. The scales of the two majestic jewelry creations have been pieces engraved by hand.

This new Richard Mille watch has got a baseplate made of pure Black Onyx, which belongs to the agate family. The onyx features rectilinear black and white parallel stripes, while the fully black variety is true Black Onyx. It is said that this stone can direct negative energy towards the Earth to protect a person from negative thoughts and thus fill his life with equilibrium.



With the help of a differential gearing system, directly linked to the winding barrel, this RM 026 watch incorporates an innovative power reserve indicator. A rather considerate design is a red line etched on the surface, which enables the direct turning of the 48 hours power reserve barrel to make the user immediately notice that the watch needs to be wound. Besides, the torque limiting crown serves as a protector to prevent accidental overwinding.

The sophisticated tripartite case of the new watch is fully curved, offering extreme comfort of wearing. The unique tonneau shape of the case has been achieved via 47 stamping operations, with 21 of them for the forming. The case is water-resistant to 50 meters. It does take lots of efforts to do such a good job of assembling the bezel side and the case back in the case middle and meanwhile avoiding any constraint and damage to the sapphires.



I bet such a ravishing, mysterious and functional Richard Mille RM 026 Tourbillon Watch is sure to be a great hit in the market. It has managed to show how incredibly the story ends when technology meets elegance.