- Size
- 44.50 × 49.94 × 16.10 mm
Overview
Dark-yellow Quartz TPT® case
This execution of the RM 65-01 uses a dark-yellow Quartz TPT® case with a titanium caseband, blue and orange pusher caps and a black rubber strap, as the card’s material line states.
The suffix QY is not documented by Richard Mille in any source found. Q as a Quartz TPT® marker and Y for yellow is the obvious reading and is consistent with the material line, but it is a reading rather than a confirmed convention, and nothing has been derived from it.
Quartz TPT® is produced from silica threads divided into layers no thicker than 45 microns, saturated in resins developed for Richard Mille, stacked with the fibre orientation rotated by 45° between plies, then cured at 120°C under 6 bar and machined at the brand’s own facilities. Silica takes colour in a way carbon does not, which is why the coloured TPT executions across the collection are Quartz rather than Carbon.
Key details
Design and engineering
- Calibre RMAC4Skeletonised automatic winding movement with hours, minutes, seconds at 6 o’clock, date, split-seconds chronograph with a 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock and a 12-hour counter at 9 o’clock, function selector, rapid winding and variable-geometry rotor. It measures 31.78 × 29.98 mm by 8.69 mm thick, on 51 jewels at 36,000 vph (5 Hz), with around 60 hours (± 10%) of power reserve without the chronograph running.
- Quartz TPT® caseQuartz TPT® is produced from silica threads divided into layers no thicker than 45 microns, saturated in resins developed for Richard Mille, stacked with the fibre orientation rotated by 45° between plies, then cured at 120°C under 6 bar and machined at the brand’s own facilities. Machining exposes the layering as a striation unique to each case.
- Split-seconds architectureTwo six-column wheels with a vertical clutch. The 5 Hz frequency allows elapsed times to be read to a tenth of a second. Richard Mille records shock and drop simulations, accelerated ten-year ageing of the functions, water-resistance testing and magnetic field trials for the chronograph.
- Rapid windingThe pusher at 8 o’clock rearms the barrel directly, without the crown; 125 presses take it to a full charge. Richard Mille specifies it for restarting a watch that has stopped.
- Fast-rotating barrelOne revolution every six hours instead of the more common seven and a half, which maintains torque across the power reserve.
- Variable-geometry rotorThe oscillating weight segment can be reconfigured to change the rotor’s inertia, and so the winding yield, according to how active the wearer is.
- Colour codingThe dial is coded by function rather than decorated: yellow for the time, green for the date, orange for the chronograph displays, red for winding and blue for the split-seconds hand.
Specifications
Technical specifications
| Reference | RM 65-01 |
|---|---|
| Calibre | RMAC4, skeletonised automatic winding |
| Functions | Hours, minutes, seconds at 6 o’clock, date, split-seconds chronograph with 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock and 12-hour counter at 9 o’clock, function selector, rapid winding, variable-geometry rotor |
| Power reserve | Around 60 hours (± 10%) without the chronograph running |
| Frequency | 36,000 vph (5 Hz) |
| Jewels | 51 |
| Movement dimensions | 31.78 × 29.98 mm |
| Movement thickness | 8.69 mm |
| Baseplate and bridges | Grade 5 titanium, wet sandblasted, PVD and electroplasma treated |
| Balance | Glucydur®, 4 arms, inertia 7.5 mg·cm², lift angle 53° |
| Chronograph | Two six-column wheels, vertical clutch |
| Barrel | Fast rotating, six hours per revolution |
| Case dimensions | 44.50 × 49.94 × 16.10 mm |
| Crystal | Sapphire, anti-glare both sides |
| Water resistance | 50 m |
| Rapid winding | Pusher at 8 o’clock, 125 presses to a full charge |
| Case material | Dark-yellow Quartz TPT® |
| Caseband | Titanium |
| Strap | Black rubber |
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