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The incredibly thin RM UP-01 wristwatch is a collaboration between Ferrari and Swiss watch brand Richard Mille. With the RM UP-01 Ferrari, Richard Mille is proud to present an ultra-flat watch that is only 1.75 millimeters thick. This remarkable technical feat is due as much to the reframing of design methods in a way that makes it usable in everyday situations as it is to approaching the watch mechanics with new eyes.

For such a project, we had to put aside all the knowledge amassed over years of practice and all the watchmaking standards imaginable. This was done while collaborating with the laboratories of the Audemars Piguet Le Locle. Shaving off the last hundredths of a millimeter of depth was a very demanding and time-consuming process. The RM UP-01, a collaboration with the Ferrari team, is the result of years of work, dozens of prototypes, and more than 6000 hours of development and laboratory testing.

To meet the challenge of an ultra-flat watch, a traditional movement with superimposed gears and hands could not be used, so Richard Mille opted to distribute what could not be stacked over a broader surface area, with the movement and case working in perfect harmony, ensuring the necessary rigidity of the other. The design and execution of the entire watch is a testament to the comprehensive conceptual approach in which the movement and case are developed in perfect harmony. The watch is a new and easily recognizable form, the first in the Richard Mille collection. Its uncompromising slimness perfectly symbolizes Richard Mille's philosophy that technology determines aesthetics, once again transforming the tonneau shape and adapting it to new situations. As evidenced by the numerous manufacturing processes required for the bezel, monobloc caseband and caseback, the RM UP-01's case has the same characteristics, with sleek lines and meticulous attention to detail.

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