In the latest design, Swiss watch RICHARD MILLE embeds the symbol of the smiley face into the dial and launches a RM 88 Smiley automatic winding tourbillon watch with a limited number of 50 pieces worldwide. It uses decorative components from the world of Smiley that are full of joy, making people feel the infinite creativity of RICHARD MILLE.
Seeing RICHARD MILLE RM 88 Smiley, he was immediately attracted by the Smiley pattern made of gold made of micro-sandblasted and hand-painted gold. The exquisite K gold carving completed by engraver Olivier Kuhn is extremely difficult. It includes the vivid micro-sandblasted and polished pineapple, as well as the golden cactus spines that are micro-sandblasted and polished one by one, removing PVD coating, the micro-sandblasted golden sun surrounding the polished light, and the red crane made of 0.2 grams of red gold and then coated with pink PVD.
As for the cocktail glass next to the main visual Smiley pattern, the process is more complicated. The four parts include an umbrella and olives with a height of 1.7mm, a straw with a diameter of 0.4mm and a curved crease, and a wine glass. The lower half of the wine glass is specially made of a micro-sand blasting process to reflect the ice-cold feeling of the water droplets. The total weight of the cocktail glass is only 0.4 grams; the golden flowers above the wine glass have been mirror-plated, and the petals have been brushed and rhodium-plated, which is extremely particular.
In addition to being difficult to make, these micro-carvings with small sizes and weigh less than 1 gram also need to withstand various impacts and test the watchmaker's ability to assemble in a limited 3D space. The best solution is to equip RM 88 Smiley with two base plates: a technical base plate that supports the purpose of the movement and an auxiliary base plate that fixes the left decorative component on the dial. Install the auxiliary base plate on the movement and tilt the decorative component to increase the sense of volume.
Secondly, it is necessary to ensure that the movement has enough space to show various functions. Therefore, the new CRMT7 hollow automatic tourbillon movement has been developed. In addition to the hour and minute display and function indicators, there are also small second hands with sun and lightning patterns on both ends, which are constantly changing alternately between sun and rain. There is also an tourbillon device that is looming behind the clouds, and a rainbow pattern made of 4 different colors of K gold and processed by 25 hours of micro-sand blasting and wire drawing processes, making it more lively and playful. The back of the base plate is equally surprising, with high profile highlighting the lightning pattern and the sun-shaped automatic disc made of gold.
