Richard Mille Introduces the Ultimate Polo Watch
Polo is one of the toughest sports to wear a watch during. Not only do you have to worry about your opponent smashing the delicate crystal of your timepiece with an errant mallet, but, if for some reason you fall off your horse, it’s game over for anything that happens to be on your wrist. The most famous watch design with polo in mind has to be Jaeger-LeCoultre’s iconic Reverso, which solved this problem by being able to seamlessly flip the watch around to expose a metal caseback that safeguards the watch?s mechanics and appearance. However, Jaeger-LeCoultre isn’t the only brand to introduce a watch specifically meant for polo (it’s worth mentioning that the Reverso has transcended it’s original sporty utility and is more associated with being a dress watch nowadays). Richard Mille introduced a new watch during SIHH this week that approaches the polo problem in a new way that only the technology-driven brand could dream up. Richard Mille ambassador and polo star Pablo Mac Donough takes a tumble. Good thing he’s wearing an RM.
Using brand ambassador and contemporary polo icon Pablo Mac Donough as a springboard for the development of the RM 53-01 Tourbillon, Richard Mille created a cable-suspended movement with a tourbillon and a laminated sapphire glass Carbon TPT case. The big challenge here was producing a watch that would be resistant to the countless shocks that any polo player goes through during a match. Richard Mille is no strange...
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