£450,000 for a Richard Mille, Homage a Boucheron
Discussion
fergus said:
sorry, just saw a picture with an associated pricetag in City AM, the free city paper! I knew a lot of RM pieces are around £100k, but £450k sounds a tad excessive, considering they are comtemporary and have little history?!
RM don't really try to sell on 'history' or 'tradition' - they're technologically state-of-the-art and are about bespoke designs with advanced materials technology.I'd absolutely LOVE a Richard Mille, though my budget will probably only ever stretch to the entry-level model
However £450k for a 'homage' - I haven't seen pics or story yet but I'd buy a RM watch for being a RM. If it's a re-hash of a 'traditional' design then it's not really a RM, IMO - and why it can command such high prices? Beats me. Unless it's a rather fanciful complication, of course, which it may well be. Even RM's own tourbillons don't go for a hell of a lot more than £100k though do they?
cyberface said:
fergus said:
sorry, just saw a picture with an associated pricetag in City AM, the free city paper! I knew a lot of RM pieces are around £100k, but £450k sounds a tad excessive, considering they are comtemporary and have little history?!
RM don't really try to sell on 'history' or 'tradition' - they're technologically state-of-the-art and are about bespoke designs with advanced materials technology.I'd absolutely LOVE a Richard Mille, though my budget will probably only ever stretch to the entry-level model
However £450k for a 'homage' - I haven't seen pics or story yet but I'd buy a RM watch for being a RM. If it's a re-hash of a 'traditional' design then it's not really a RM, IMO - and why it can command such high prices? Beats me. Unless it's a rather fanciful complication, of course, which it may well be. Even RM's own tourbillons don't go for a hell of a lot more than £100k though do they?
cho said:
It's more of a collaberation with Boucheron i think. It looks like a normal Richard Mille tourbillon but with lots nore bling on it!
so, about £100k, with a 2nd hand Zonda attached?! 
Who buys that sort of thing? Surely collectors with that sort of cash would go for significant pieces from auctions?
Don1 said:
Links, pics, story?
Here we go...
Not really my cup of tea, my thoughts are that Richard Mille has made such fantastic, Avant Garde pieces that I'm not convinced this collaboration works, or is necessary.
fergus said:
so, about £100k, with a 2nd hand Zonda attached?!
Who buys that sort of thing? Surely collectors with that sort of cash would go for significant pieces from auctions?
By that logic Fergus, nobody would be buying Zonda (a comtemporary company with little history) and would only buy vintage Sports cars at auction.....Who buys that sort of thing? Surely collectors with that sort of cash would go for significant pieces from auctions?
Edited by Dominic H on Friday 30th January 23:22
I tried on a couple of high end RMs at their 'boutique' in Dubai - I get the innovation and materials used but they left me cold. This may sound daft but I want a watch to feel substantial, but because thay use titanium a lot, they felt very lightweight (obviously).
Not that I could afford one anyway...
Not that I could afford one anyway...
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