By Jovan Krstevski
The Worldtimer has always been the quiet intellectual of the Mille family, the kind that values mechanical ingenuity over flash. After all, there’s really something poetic about a machine that knows every hour of the world yet sits still on your wrist; that’s exactly what Richard Mille’s latest outing, the RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer in red gold and titanium, brings to the table; or rather, to the wrists.
The 47mm x 13.45mm round case is satin finished in 5N red gold with polished bevels, while the bezel is microblasted 5N red gold. The grade 5 titanium caseband keeps things grounded, the twelve titanium spline screws hold the structure together, ensuring 30 metres of water resistance. A burgundy Alcryn collar wraps the crown for that soft yet resilient grip. A push button at 4 o’clock selects Winding (W), Neutral (N), or Hand setting (H), displayed in a small aperture.
Playing with transparency and layering, the openworked layout gives space to a 24 hour inner ring for quick global reading, with pink and burgundy sections dividing day from night. The cities rest neatly on the rotating bezel, which doubles as the adjustment mechanism. A flick of the bezel reconfigures the local time, updating all 24 zones in one sweep, an elegant solution that spares the crown from extra duties. The oversized date at 12 o’clock, with two skeletonised titanium discs, is adjusted via a gold pusher on the left caseband at 11 o’clock.
The CRMA4 automatic movement wears titanium bones, built from scratch inside Mille’s own walls. It runs at 4 Hz, stores 50 hours of autonomy and winds through a bidirectional rotor in red gold and titanium.
Limited to 100 pieces, RM 63-02 is priced at CHF 220,000 before taxes.
