A WINNING GOAL
The brand has just rolled out a surprising watch, hand-in-hand with Audemars, Piguet with a new caliber that lets you keep track of a soccer match. Explanation.
Watchmaking, designed to measure time, has become an experimental playground where innovation seems to know no limits. Richard Mille‘s latest creation to date illustrates this majestically. Although the RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer looks like some of the brand’s other signature models with its tonneau-shaped case (43.23 x 16.08 x 49.65 mm) and its skeletonized caliber, the piece however wows with the complications within. On top of the “classic” complications such as the flyback chronographs, the tourbillon, the power reserve, and function indicators, this reference takes on two new mechanisms, goal counters, and a game period indicator, to fully keep track of a soccer match.
650 parts assembled around a grade 5 titanium mainplate and bridges breathe life into the manual-wind RM41-01 movement (70 hours of autonomy) which meticulously drives, among other things, time measurements thanks to a patented double-column-wheel system. This exclusive model is available in two 30-piece limited series, one in blue Quartz TPT®, the other in red carmin Basalt TPT®, a world first. In short, a timing session begins as the whistle blows the start of the game. The minute and second hands tick over along a scale from 0 to 45 minutes which runs around the dial periphery. A bar-shaped panel at 9 o’clock displays the words “1st HALF”. A tap is all it takes to trigger the flyback at the start of the second half of the game. Now, the panel shows “2nd HALF”. Every time the dedicated pushers are pressed during the match, the goals scored are tallied for the two teams. The RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer is wonderfully high-tech and super entertaining. Bring on overtimes!
