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Richard Mille's New Ferrari Watch Collab Is a $1.3 Million Masterpiece with Maranello Touches

For its first watch partnership with Ferrari in 2022, watchmaker Richard Mille created the stunning, 1.75-mm thin UP-01. While the UP shocked FBO lounges worldwide with its wafer-like profile, the timepiece's automotive aspect was limited to the Prancing Horse logo on the corner of the face. Richard Mille's second Ferrari timepiece, the just-announced RM 43-01 Ferrari, has the familiar curved-tank form-factor of other RM watches, but the collaboration goes much deeper here. This tourbillon rattrapante chronograph is an automotive watch through and through. To parse all that: this watch has a stopwatch function (chronograph) with an additional hand capable of timing two events that start at the same time, such as lap splits (rattrapante), and it has a cage (tourbillon) to keep the timing exceedingly accurate. Many Ferrari hallmarks are visible in this skeletonized watch, and indeed, Ferrari chief design officer Flavio Manzoni was intimately involved in the design. Among the watch's 514 parts are a minute-counter bridge that looks like the end of a Ferrari engine's crankcase; pusher buttons that look like the SF90's rounded-rectangle taillights; indented offsets in the strap that mimic the nose of the 488 challenge car, and X-shaped braces on many components that recall structural crankcase and engine bracing. "True luxury is when the client feels like you took everything you the limit," Alex Mille, son of Richard and company brand director, said of the collaboration. "We are natural partners with Ferrari because neither of us compromises on anything.' Richard Mille will make just 150 examples of the 43-01, 75 in titanium and 75 in a case made of 600 compressed plies of carbon fiber. (It looks like a piece of charcoal, yet is somehow glorious.) The price for the titanium watch is $1.3 million, and the carbon fiber timepiece sells for $1.535 million. So it's safe to say the 43-01 is shocking in its own fashion. You Might Also Like You Need a Torque Wrench in Your Toolbox Tested: Best Car Interior Cleaners The Man Who Signs Every Car