Richard Mille RM035 Rafael Nadal Luxury Watch Review

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe for the best luxury watch content! This is how you tell time at the speed of Light! The Richard Mille RM035 Rafael Nadal takes everything you thought you knew about bomber-tough sports watches and Grand-Slams it into obsolescence. Start with the obvious; this 50 gram wonder watch was stress tested on the wrist of all-world tennis pro Rafael Nadal in actual match play. While the $100,000+ MSRP might be a heart-stopper to mere mortals, it's a fraction of the value attached to a win at Wimbledon, so rest assured that Nadal held back exactly *nothing* while putting the RM035 prototypes through the mill. Even Rolex wouldn't stand a chance against that kind of onslaught. But Richard Mille operates on another plane of horology and technology. Despite weighing less than the Valjoux 7750 chronograph *movement* in a typical Breitling Chrono Avenger (about 56 grams), the magnesium-aluminum RM035 Nadal is as tough as its legend suggests. Mass reduction and shock abatement are the keys. Consider the 90 percent magnesium, 10 percent aluminum Richard Mille tonneau case as "Exhibit A," with "A" standing for "Alloy." This ultra-light combination leaves even titanium looking rather porky, and Richard Mille assures peerless scratch resistance via a plasma-conditioned ceramic oxide of the two constituent metals; only diamond can reliably scuff it. Inside the case of the Richard Mille RM035, the techno tour-de-force continues. A calibrated 60-minute f