Richard Mille RM055 Bubba Watson Luxury Watch Review

Watchwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe to our channels for the best luxury watch content. Richard Mille is the Lamborghini of watchmakers. The star-power and visual impact of this white titanium/ceramic/polymer Richard Mille RM 055 Bubba Watson produces the kind of fill-the-camera-phone awestruck spasms that bystanders generally reserve for supercars from Bologna. Having been endorsed and tested on the green by Gerry Lester “Bubba” Watson himself, this RM 055 has game. But the 50mm lug-to-lug by 43mm wide Richard Mille RM 055 is more than a mechanical traffic hazard; it's one heck of a fine watch. Between its ergonomic excellence and the otherworldly aesthetic of its skeletonized PVD titanium movement, the RM 055 epitomizes Richard Mille's reinvention of the luxury sports watch. While Franck Muller and Vacheron Constantin employ the tonneau case to evoke vintage elegance, Richard Mille has adopted the unconventional form as a sort of biomorphic emblem of progressive design. Both an ergonomic triumph and an aesthetic impact-player, the RM 055's white rubber-wrapped titanium tonneau wears with the ease of a far smaller timepiece, and its "stacked" construction evokes the unsheathed frame of an aircraft, race car, or skyscraper. A white ATZ ceramic bezel and caseback sandwich the titanium core. Due to Richard Mille's vast investment in scientific ergonomics, the RM 055 wears comfortably on a wide range of wrist sizes. The integration of case and white rubber strap visually ext