Richard Mille watches

Richard Mille was founded in 2001 by Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat and is based in Les Breuleux, in the Swiss Jura. Its first watch, the manually wound RM 001 Tourbillon, was presented at Baselworld in 2001.

The RM 027, made for the tennis player Rafael Nadal in 2007, weighed 20 g including its strap, and later models such as the RM 27-03 use a carbon TPT baseplate. Case and some movement components are made by ProArt, in which Mille and Guenat acquired 90 per cent in 2013.

The company remains privately held. Members of the second generation of both founding families hold director posts, including Amanda and Alexandre Mille and Cécile and Maxime Guenat.