She's Complicated: Richard Mille's Intricate New Women's Watch Is A Masterpiece

Many still have the misconception that women have no interest in haute horology, but since the dawn of modern watchmaking, women have been among the most passionate consumers of intricate mechanical timepieces Fast-forward to present day, and the success of 21st-century innovator Richard Mille's feminine watches provides ample proof of women's enduring appreciation for authentic mechanical timekeeping-not to mention their attraction to the inventive materials and adventurous designs for which the brand is renowned Women's watches reportedly account for a quarter of the company's sales volume, with that number expected to grow to a third in the near future.

"Women's watches have represented a considerable percentage of our sales for several years now," Mille notes "That said, we needed a modern, creative and talented young woman to inject new energy into our status quo and take the women's collection to new heights." The watchmaker went to extraordinary lengths to develop its first in-house automatic tourbillon movement, which needed to be both compact, in order to fit within the restricted confines of a women's watch, as well as tough and light-signature qualities common to all of Mille's creations That these drawn-out, painstaking efforts resulted in a series of watches created in such limited numbers only makes this Talisman all the more evocative-and attractive to the ever-growing group of women hunting horological grails. Source