Richard Mille and Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) launch a new watch, featuring an all-new grand complication. The RM 62-01 Tourbillon Vibrating Alarm ACJ is the most complicated watch Richard Mille has ever created.
Richard Mille RM62-01 Tourbillon Vibrating Alarm ACJ
The second iteration of a collaboration between Richard Mille and Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ), the Airbus subsidiary commercializing bespoke private aircraft, the RM 62-01 Tourbillon Vibrating Alarm ACJ offers a particular focus on the traveler: ?The RM 62-01 is imagined, prompting me to continue experiments begun with the RM 50-02 Tourbillon ACJ in a new kind of travel watch. The RM 62-01 is designed for the discretion prevailing in the hushed atmosphere of luxury. Transmitted exclusively by vibrations, its alarm function attests consideration and savoir-faire. It owes its existence to an absolutely singular technical approach. Supremely easy to use, this complication embodies a paradox. Normally, an effective alarm needs to be audible from afar. Ours however, needed to remain within the compass of a few millimeters.? In other words, and in contrast to the traditional alarms and chimes of most horological pieces of yesteryear and today, that of the RM 62-01 is absolutely silent. Rather than a hammer that creates a sound by striking a pillar, a gong or the interior of the case, the time signal is transmitted by a vibration only the wearer can perceive.
The watch introduces a new, silently vibrating mechanical ala...