Richard Mille - RM UP-01 FERRARI - Manual winding ultraflat

Introduction Richard Mille and Ferrari: making hearts beat faster Sporting mechanisms that are as elegant as they are immediately recognisable. An identical obsession with excellence, precision, reliability and innovation. In 2021, Ferrari and Richard Mille, driven by their shared quest for perfection, joined forces to create a long-term partnership. Richard Mille celebrates this budding relationship with the creation of an exceptional ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari. At just 1.

75 millimetres thick, the RM UP-01 Ferrari constitutes a triumph of technical prowess and exemplifies a new approach to watch mechanics in which technicity more than ever dictates aesthetics. Performance as an accelerator of style Working collaboratively alongside the Ferrari team, the RM UP-01 is a model resulting from many year’s work, dozens of prototypes and more than 6,000 hours of development and laboratory testing. Meeting the challenge of an ultra-flat watch precluded a traditional movement with superimposed gears and hands. Richard Mille therefore opted to distribute what could not be stacked over a broader surface area by creating a perfect symbiosis between the movement and case, each ensuring the necessary rigidity of the other. We were determined to retain a traditional architecture in which the movement is assembled within the case, rather than a construction in which the caseback doubles as a baseplate, in order to ensure under any circumstances total shock resistance.

Fighting for the last hundredths With the RM UP-01 Ferrari, Richard Mille is proud to present an ultra-flat watch just 1. 75 millimetres thick. This mind-blowing technical feat owes as much to approaching watch mechanics with fresh eyes as it does to reframing design methods in ways that make the spectacular available for use in everyday situations. For such a project, it was necessary to set aside all the knowledge we had amassed over years of practice, and every conceivable standard of watchmaking. This is precisely what we did throughout our collaboration with the laboratories of Audemars Piguet Le Locle.

Shaving off those last hundredths of a millimetre of depth was an extremely demanding and lengthy process. Top view Right view Back view Left view Finishing Movement • Baseplate in hand-ground grade 5 titanium, wet sandblasted • Bridges in grade 5 titanium wet sandblasted, top surface polished by hand • Locking sections hand polished • Burnished pivots • Diamond-polished sinks on the bridge side • Pinions with undercuts Steel parts • Microblasted and hand-drawn surfaces • Sapphire-blasted surfaces • Anglage and polishing by hand Wheels • Concave chamfering with a diamond tool • Circular-smoothed faces • Rhodium plating (before cutting the teeth) • Minimal corrections applied to the wheels in order to preserve geometry and performance Other features WINDING-BARREL TEETH AND THIRD-WHEEL PINION WITH CENTRAL INVOLUTE PROFILE The central involute profile of the winding-barrel teeth and pinion provides an optimal pressure angle of 20°. This promotes effective rotary motion and compensates for possible variations in the engagement of the going train, thus ensuring excellent torque transmission with a distinct improvement in performance. CRYSTAL Hour dial In sapphire (1,800 Vickers) with anti-glare treatment (both sides). Thickness: 0,45mm Balance dial In sapphire (1,800 Vickers) with anti-glare treatment (both sides).

Thickness: 0. 20 mm at the centre; 0. 30 mm at the outer edges SPLINE SCREWS IN GRADE 5 TITANIUM FOR THE BRIDGES AND CASE This permits better control of the torque applied to screws during assembly. These screws are therefore unaffected by physical manipulation during assembly or disassembly and age well. .