Richard Mille RM 35-03 'Rafael Nadal' Salmon Quartz TPT

No partnership has done more to prove Richard Mille's philosophy than its collaboration with Rafael Nadal, who has worn the brand's featherweight watches through the violence of professional tennis, subjecting them to shocks few timepieces could survive. The RM 35-03 'Rafael Nadal' advances that legacy with a butterfly rotor, a variable-geometry winding system the wearer can switch on or off to tune the mainspring's power. Rendered in salmon Quartz TPT, it fuses athletic engineering with unmistakable, playful Richard Mille flair.

The tonneau case is moulded from Quartz TPT, a silica-based composite built from hundreds of coloured layers, here in a soft salmon hue accented with blue on the crown and flange. Behind the sapphire crystal, the skeletonised movement is fully exposed, its bridges like an athlete's musculature. A function selector lets the wearer choose winding, neutral, or hand-setting, an ON/OFF indicator confirms the rotor's state, and a grey rubber strap secures it.