Richard Mille RM 53-01 Tourbillon Pablo Mac Donough
Polo may not be the top sport in most Malaysian’s minds but we are pretty sure every watch lover can appreciate the amount of engineering that went into Richard Mille’s RM 53-01 Tourbillon Pablo Mac Donough, creating a watch as complex as that to withstand a sport as brutal as polo.
If you’ve never thought of polo as brutal, just think wooden mallets and hooves that belong to beasts that weigh close to a tonne. Then imagine a tourbillon that can actually survive on the wrist of a polo player.
The result is a watch that combines some of the most ingenious ideas in modern watchmaking. The case of the RM 53-01 is crafted out of the Carbon TPT material that Richard Mille has been tinkering with for years. And to ensure a delicate tourbillon movement within this case was protected from heavy and repeated shocks, it had to be suspending within the case using a clever series of braided cables. Last but not least, Richard Mille wanted to be able to show all of these innovations off, so it invented – a world premiere in the realm of watchmaking – a crystal of laminated sapphire glass to ensure that, in the case of an impact, it may crack but never shatter, thus protecting the movement within.
