Key Takeaways
- Record-breaking weight: the watch weighs just 32 grams, strap included, lighter than a sugar cube.
- Technology: Richard Mille RM 67-02, featuring a Carbon TPT and Grade 5 titanium case, with an ultra-thin automatic skeletonized movement.
- Estimated value: at least €300,000, engineered to withstand extreme shocks and vibrations during a race.
A jewel on the wrist, not an accessory
Tadej Pogačar, four-time winner of the Tour de France, has partnered with Richard Mille, and now rides with something that seems to defy the laws of physics. The RM 67-02 is not just a watch: it's a technical manifesto. Thirty-two grams in total, strap included. A laughably low weight for an object worth at least €300,000, built with a Carbon TPT case and Grade 5 titanium, materials usually found in aerospace prototypes, not on the wrist of a cyclist climbing mountains at 6 watts per kilogram.
A high-altitude laboratory
The roads winding through the heart of France, those coordinates that trace the route of the Grande Boucle, become the ultimate testing ground. Every attack on a climb, every breakneck descent, every sharp surge puts the ultra-thin automatic skeletonized movement through stress that no ordinary office wristwatch could ever survive. Richard Mille designed the RM 67-02 for exactly this: to withstand shocks and vibrations without stealing a single gram of lightness from the athletic motion.
Not sponsorship, a statement
This isn't about a logo slapped onto a jersey. It's a declared fusion of high watchmaking and sporting performance, a partnership that projects Swiss engineering onto the most iconic switchbacks in world cycling. Pogačar pedals, and time rides with him, literally.
