- Case
- Tonneau
- Size
- 50.50 × 42.70 × 19.25 mm
Overview
A cable-suspended movement inside a blue sapphire case
The RM 53-02 takes the suspension principle of the polo watch and puts it inside a case machined almost entirely from blue sapphire, so that the cables holding the movement — and the pulleys they run over — can be read from every direction.
The braided cable is 0.27 mm thick. Achieving the case’s glare-free finish required over a thousand hours of work, sapphire being second only to diamond in hardness and correspondingly slow to grind and polish. The strap is white.
Key details
Case materialBlue sapphire
Movement mountingSuspended on braided cable, 0.27 mm
MovementManual winding tourbillon
Design and engineering
- Blue sapphire caseMilled and ground from blocks of coloured synthetic sapphire; more than 1,000 hours of craftsmanship went into the finish.
- Cable suspension at 0.27 mmThe braided cable is 0.27 mm thick, finer than that used on earlier suspended calibres, running over pulleys set around the movement.
- Shock isolationSuspending the calibre rather than fixing it means impacts on the case are absorbed by the cable system before they reach the movement.
- Manual-winding tourbillonHours and minutes, the movement performing the role of the dial.
- Grade 5 titanium baseplateSkeletonised, with the structure visible through the transparent case.
- Sapphire throughoutBezel, caseband and caseback, so the watch reads as one material.
The reference
Technical specifications
| Reference | RM 53-02 |
|---|---|
| Calibre | Manual winding tourbillon |
| Functions | Hours, minutes; tourbillon |
| Baseplate and bridges | Grade 5 titanium, skeletonised |
| Movement mounting | Suspended on braided cable, 0.27 mm |
| Case | Tonneau |
| Case dimensions | 50.50 × 42.70 × 19.25 mm |
| Case material | Blue sapphire |
| Strap | White |
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