50 pieces limited 47 mm NTPT Carbon Richard Mille RM 27-01 Tourbillon ‘Rafael Nadal’

Throwback to the French Open 2016 when Alexander Zverev, who then was a Richard Mille ambassador, wore the extremely light 50 pieces limited 47 mm NTPT Carbon Richard Mille RM 27-01 Tourbillon ‘Rafael Nadal.’

The weight is just 13 grams (without the strap), and the transparent tourbillon dial also features transparent markers. The watch was designed to withstand the extreme pressure and challenges that occur during a tennis match.

Zverev is not competing in this year’s Wimbledon tournament due to his terrible bone fracture from this year’s French Open.

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Rafael Nadal, the tennis superstar from Mallorca, has enjoyed a streak of victories because of his association with Richard Mille. This is particularly with his seventh straight triumph at the French Open in 2012, as well as in the world of timepieces for Richard Mille with the Rafael Nadal Tourbillon watch.

Richard Mille unveiled the Tourbillon RM 27-01, also created in partnership with Rafael Nadal, in 2013. It is a remarkable construct that takes the ideas of lightweight with the strength to their furthest limits.

The RM27-01 caliber is an architectural and technological achievement. This extraordinary caliber can sustain more than 5,000 G accelerations while remaining suspended within its casing.

Richard Mille’s effort to design a movement kept in complete levitation in the center of its casing led to the creation of its intricate, unique style. Richard Mille sought to integrate suspending construction-related infrastructures into the wristwatch industry while requiring only tens of millimeters of space. Richard Mille’s movement designers gave this avant-garde notion concrete form after several months of work. Hence, it was unquestionably established among the most avant-garde classical architecture in recent memory.

The RM 27-01 Rafael Nadal’s baseplate is connected to the casing by 4 thin, 0.35 mm-diameter woven steel rods. 5^th-grade titanium is used for the baseplate with the tourbillon train, while aluminum-lithium is used for the barrel bridges and gearboxes. This creates a framework that blends flexibility and strength to safeguard the movement that weighs only 3.5 grams.

These wires are kept firm by a clever system of fasteners (positioned at 3 and 9 o’clock) with pulleys that function as pylon-like structures placed at the movement’s four edges. Every cable is attached to the fastener and travels through the movement over the higher pulley before going back through the lower shaft and terminating in the base flange. After the wires have been attached, the craftsman uses special equipment to rotate the tensioner ring in the center to tighten the cables.

The RM 27-01 only measures 19 grams with the Velcro strap attached. The evidence that was chosen for the casing allowed for this accomplishment. The casing of RM 27-01, which has a monobloc rear, is primarily carbon-based. Because of the high concentration of carbon nanotubes, it has an anthracite color. With a RM 27-01 on the wrist, Rafael Nadal can now play all of his games with excellent shock and scratch resistance as well as the relaxation he needs.

Price tag: $800,000.00 USD

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