Richard Mille Introduces New Grey Cermet Material in RM 11-05 Automatic Flyback Chronograph GMT
Richard Mille long ago earned its spot in the upper echelon of firms bringing new and avant-garde materials to watchmaking ? from ceramics to forged carbon to quartz TPT and beyond. With the use of its new, exclusive grey cermet material in the new RM 11-05 Automatic Flyback Chronograph GMT, the automotive- and aerospace-influenced brand further burnishes its credentials as a materials innovator.
The RM 11-05 features the watch industry’s first use of grey Cermet.
As is often the case with Richard Mille’s ultra-complex timepieces, the RM 11-05 packs a number of functions inside its 50-mm x 42.7-mm tonneau-shaped case, all driven by its skeletonized, self-winding movement: a flyback chronograph with counters at 6 and 9 o’clock; a GMT display with a luminous hand, easily adjustable by a pusher (at 9 o’clock on the case); and an annual calendar with a semi-instantaneous large date display at 12 o’clock and months indicated by Arabic numerals on a scale between 4 and 5 o’clock. The chronograph, operated by sleekly designed pushers between 1 and 2 o’clock and between 4 and 5 o’clock, also includes a countdown mode, which uses a 60-minute-marked skeletonized disk in place of a hand so the user can read minutes elapsed as well as remaining minutes.
The watch combines a flyback chronograph, GMT, and annual calendar.
The warm gray color of the Cermet case comes from its mixture of metallic zirconium with high-performance...
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