Richard Mille’s New McLaren Watch Has a ‘Start Jumping’ Button

That’s the world of luxury products that customers have for the newly announced $2.6 million USD McLaren Automotive. W1 supercar It is now possible to order a suitable watch.

The fourth watch produced is the result of a long-term collaboration between McLaren and luxury watchmaker Richard Mille, RM 65-01 “McLaren W1 Edition” was announced this week during a press conference at the carmaker’s Woking headquarters.

Billed as something akin to a supercar for the wrist, the watch, priced at 320,000 Swiss francs plus tax ($373,300), is a tribute to the car’s design language, it has been revealed. to the world last Sunday. With a split-second chronograph movement and a few other tricks, it houses what Richard Mille says is the most complicated automatic movement it has ever produced.

The movement consists of 480 elements, beating at a frequency of 5 Hz, allowing time intervals to be measured to the nearest tenth of a second. The split-second function allows the wearer to time two events simultaneously, so you’ll know exactly how much faster you are than every other car on the road (or track.) Push buttons at 2 , 4 and 10 o’clock, modeled after the W1’s exhaust pipes, drive the chronograph, with their roles represented by McLaren’s “papaya orange” and high-fidelity light blue. High contrast, but the pure orange fourth button will attract your attention.

Start me

This controls a very different function, unique to the RM 65 series. You might call it the “jump start” button—hopefully something the W1 will never require. It’s an instant winding mechanism, designed so that in the rare event the watch runs out of power, you can restart it with just a few presses of your thumb.

It activates the gear and rack mechanism to wind the watch without removing the watch from your wrist. Richard Mille says that 125 push-ups will fully wind the watch, but it’s intended as a quickie rather than as a substitute for an automatic winding system—the system itself is complex, with a rotor Variation can be adjusted to suit everyone’s lifestyle. wearer, by brand. Basically, if you are active, it will be set to deliver less power per revolution and vice versa if you are more sedentary.