Pharrell Williams’ collaboration with Richard Mille is his dream watch The dial of this watch features an image of an astronaut looking down at the Earth.
Pharrell Williams' first watch with Richard Mille was not only his dream timepiece, it was directly inspired by them. Launched on Thursday, the watch's dial depicts an astronaut on Mars looking down at Earth, an image the Star Trek fan first imagined in his sleep.
The new watch is called the RM 52-05 Tourbillon Pharrell Williams, and it has one of the most gorgeously decorated dials you're likely to see this year. The Swiss watchmaker’s creative team focused on depicting the cosmos, assembling professional engravers, enamellers and painters to bring to life the colorful portraits of the astronauts and the reflection of the Earth in the goggles. Each dial is said to take 15 hours to complete.
"I've always been obsessed with looking up at the sky," Williams, who first called out the brand in his 2006 song "Can I Have It Like That," said in a statement. "What's more inspiring than what's been and what's to come? Space, right before your eyes. It's what you can see. It's before the Earth, before the solar system. It's going to be behind us, and there's nothing like it. It makes more sense.”
Of course, this is Richard Mille we're talking about, so the RM 52-05 is more than just a beautifully illustrated dial. Equipped with a manual winding tourbillon movement, a variable inertia balance spring, a fast-rotating barrel, winding barrel teeth, a central involute toothed third wheel pinion and a 42-hour power reserve. Its crown is also modeled after a rocket capsule, with rubber rings representing rover tires.
The watch also features space-age materials such as red gold, brown cermet (a combination of ceramic and metal), diamond-encrusted white gold and grade 5 titanium. The baseplate is also inlaid with a wealth of rich adventure elements and shimmering goldstone glass, which combine to evoke outer space.
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