4 unusual Richard Mille watches that depart from the brand’s tonneau-shaped tradition

RM 31: PURITY OF THOUGHT

With the RM 31 High Performance, the brand set out to make “a very orthodox product” – although it is certainly a distance away from the mental image that appears in our head when one says “traditional watch”. Except, perhaps, for its round form. Going back to basics, reliable timekeeping excellence was the key aim for the brand when conceptualising this timepiece, which has a deviation of around 20 seconds a month. Pretty impressive when one considers that a variation in accuracy of five to eight seconds a day is generally considered pretty good. This was made possible by equipping the Calibre RM 031 with a high-frequency escapement developed by movement specialists APRP (Audemars Piguet Renaud et Papi).