Richard Mille is getting itself ready for this summer’s World Cup.
The watchmaker has just unveiled its new RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer, an aptly named piece that is meant to track each and every moment that unfolds throughout a soccer game (or football, for everyone else outside of the U.S.). But this new skeletonized beauty is a strike above its sporty processors, the RM 11-01 and the RM 11-04 Roberto Mancini, in more ways than one.
“We think in concepts rather than linear evolutions,” RM’s commercial director Alexandre Mille said in a press release. “What we learn on one reference can become the starting point for the next challenge.”
It all starts with the star of the show, which is the timepiece’s bonkers new caliber, one that took the team five years to develop. Created in partnership with the folks at Audemars Piguet, the titanium movement is equipped with both a tourbillon escapement, a flyback chronograph that shows off overlapping central minutes and seconds, and a function indicator. The fun really begins, though, with the first of new complications shown off here: a match-time indicator positioned at 9 o’clock. As the name suggests, it tracks the current phase of the game at hand, with each reset of the flyback chronograph shifting the display from the first to second half—and it covers both a first and second extra time, too.

The dark-blue variant of the new RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer.
Richard Mille
Plus, you can keep track of the score of both teams, thanks to the mechanical goal counters sitting along the outskirts of the movement. Using the pushers at 2 and 4 o’clock, the wearer can mark the goals of the home and away squad along the metallic rails (up to nine goals, before the arrow shifts back to the zero marker). The watch, too, is home to a 70-hour power reserve—so you can fit plenty of matches within each wear.
Richard Mille also made sure to remove every bit of unnecessary material from the timepiece, ensuring that its microblasted bridges and other features can be shown off to the max—PVD coatings on those pieces help to make them legible amid the openworked design. As usual, the new watch is done up in the brand’s signature tonneau-shaped case; though, for this model, the case is offered up in two versions. The first is making its debut on the RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer: a maroon-hued Basalt TPT, a material that’s derived from volcanic rock that’s resistance to chemicals, corrosion, and UV rays. The other case, meanwhile, is done up in a dark-blue Quartz TPT.
Perhaps we’ll see the RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer on the wrists of some lucky sports fans or soccer stars at the upcoming World Cup—if they can manage to snag one, that is. The new watch is limited to just 30 timepieces, with a whopping price of $1.94 million.
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Nicole Hoey
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Nicole Hoey is Robb Report’s digital editor. While studying at Boston University, she read, wrote and read some more as an English and journalism major. A class taught by a Boston Globe copy editor…


