In 1999, he teamed up with Richard Mille to create the “Richard Mille” watch brand.Īll Richard Mille watches are developed and produced in Switzerland by the Guenat SA - Montres Valgine (GMV) Manufacture in Les Breuleux. The Richard Mille Group comprises the following companies: Horométrie SA (distribution), Guenat SA Montres Valgine (conception and assembly), ProArt (components), VMDH (decoration) and Cercle d'Art (publishing).ĭominique Guenat joined the Guenat SA - Montres Valgine (GMV) company in 1986 and took to the helm in 1991. It operates within the Montres Valgine company. Richard Mille is a Swiss brand based in the town of Les Breuleux, in the Canton of Jura. In late 2018 the RM 71-01 Automatic Tourbillon Talisman was launched, described as being made by a woman (women's collection director Cécile Guenat) for women. In October 2018, Richard Mille opened its sixth and largest United States store in New York. In 2018 Richard Mille withdrew from the Salon international de la haute horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva. In 2013 Richard Mille turned down a proposal by the French group Kering to acquire 51% of the shares. Following the sale of case supplier Donzé- Baume to Swiss luxury group Richemont in 2007, the Richard Mille company started machining its cases and some components, with ProArt as a subcontractor. The company became ProArt and moved to a purpose-built 3,000 m² building in Les Breuleux. In April 2013, Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat acquired a 90% stake in Prototypes Artisanals SA, founded by Marco Poluzzi former director Alain Varrin retained a 10% share. Richard Mille joined the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie in 2007. The watch had a tourbillon calibre, a power-reserve indicator, and a torque indicator. Īfter three years of research and prototypes, they exhibited their first watch, the manually-wound RM 001 Tourbillon, at the 2001 watch and jewellery exhibition Baselworld in Basel, Switzerland. They then founded Horométrie, their operating company for the new Richard Mille brand, as equal partners, which was registered on 23 October 2001 in the Swiss registry of commerce, and created the Richard Mille watchmaking brand in collaboration with Swiss watchmaking manufacturer Audemars Piguet, which became a Richard Mille shareholder in 2007. In early 1999, Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat drew up their plans and the basis for the Richard Mille brand in partnership with Montres Valgine and Audemars Piguet Over the next two years, they defined their brand concept, then began designing watches. In late 1998, Mille presented his plans to his friend Dominique Guenat, owner of Montres Valgine (Guenat SA - Montres Valgine), whom he met in 1988 while working in Besançon for Compagnie Générale Horlogère (CGH) and with whom he worked on watches for Mauboussin. Powered by its in-house automatic tourbillon movement, they are Richard Mille’s tribute to a decade that witnessed the rise of clubbing and disco, when a world of glam and glitter came alive at night.Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat, foundersįollowing a disagreement about commercial strategy at Mauboussin, where he was a shareholder, Richard Mille left his position as general manager to launch a range of watches.
Following on from the RM 71-01 Automatic Tourbillon Talisman, a powerful collection of ten women’s watches launched in 2018 that combined inspirations from Art Deco and tribal art, the RM 71-02 “erupted in coloured stones, drawing on the untamed energy and raw glamour of the 1970s.” Each of the ten styles is proposed as a seven-piece limited edition and boasts a different array of coloured gemstones set in different patterns. Meanwhile, the brand’s women customers – who make up almost 40% of sales – were introduced to Bianca, Carmen, Diana, Donna, Gloria, Grace and friends, aka the RM 71-02 Automatic Tourbillon Talisman. Remarkable for its tourbillon calibre supported by a microblasted steel mesh, it weighs just 30 grams including the strap. The ninth watch developed for Rafael Nadal, it coincided with the ten-year anniversary of the tennis champion’s partnership with the brand.
Product-wise, one of 2020’s major reveals has to be the RM 27-04.
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