Richard Mille RM 50-04 Kimi Räikkönen Watch heavyweights Richard Mille have just launched their latest limited edition masterpiece, the Richard Mille RM 50-04 Kimi Räikkönen and we can only say one thing... WOW!

In typical Richard Mille fashion, the RM 50-04 is an extremely complex and frankly brilliant timepiece, designed for the only "Iceman" based in the Formula 1 paddock. Designed by Kimi-Matias Räikkönen.

The RM 50-04 also celebrates the watchmaker’s partnership with the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team, of which Raikkonen has been a member since signing with the Swiss racing team in 2018.

As a result, the new RM 50-04 not only shares the same color scheme as Raikkonen's C38 Formula 1 car, but also shares the same technical design philosophy and attention to detail.

For example, the new watch’s bezel and case back are made from a material called Quartz TPT.

It's made by sandwiching no less than 600 layers of silicon (each 45 microns thick), then impregnating those layers with a white matrix, then putting it all into something called an autoclave and heating it to a sweltering 120 degrees Celsius.

Richard Mille says the benefits of using this material are profound, as quartz TPT has a very strong resistance/weight ratio, excellent hypoallergenic properties and incredible UV resistance.

The movement of the RM 50-04, a hand-wound tourbillon with split-seconds chronograph complication, 30-minute totalizer and power reserve, torque and function indicators, is equally as technically stunning as it is said to be able to withstand Up to 5000 G of impact, which is a good thing because when you put that in F1, it's usually pretty fast.

How could it withstand this level of compound gravity? Well, first of all, the base plate and bridges of the movement are made of grade 5 titanium, well, 90% grade 5 titanium, and the other 10% is made up of 6% aluminum and 4% vanadium... whatever that is !

Either way, the end result is a material that's tougher than Raikkonen's steely glare when he catches you stealing his Magnum ice cream.

Oh, and like the Formula 1 cars he competes in, the RM 50-04’s movement is incredibly light: only 7 grams, to be exact.

Thanks to this amazing lightweight construction, the Iceman will actually be wearing the watch while racing on the Marina Bay Sands street circuit when he competes in this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix.
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