He is ambassador of Renault Sport and has founded with JP Driot the e.Dams Formula E team which has won its 3rd title this year.
Here are a few pictures of the watch, I know he is fan of cycling, thus the complication of the new RM70-01 Tourbillon. Indeed, the watch can display up to 99 999 kilometers.
The base motivation for this complication is that some cyclists didn't know what distance they made during a certain period of time, let's say a year for instance.
With the pusher on the crown side you can select the figure you want to set. Then, with the pusher at 10 o'clock, the owner sets the right figure.
In the end, after each session, the owner can add the distance made to keep track of the overall achivement.
That's not a necessary feature but that's the philosophy behind the significantly complicated mechanism.
Some RM complications (like the one used in the Erotique model) is much more complicated than its "usefulness" would let one think.
Here is what the press release says abot it:
"The first pusher activates selection of a roller, one of the five. Execution is confirmed by perfect alignment of the two yellow arrows. The second pusher incrementally rotates the roller, which automatically blocks, thanks to the carry mechanism. To avoid accidental manipulations, the complication has been fitted with a neutral position (N). Thanks to a spring-lock, the selection fork will be lined up straight, with an arrow at 2 o’clock pointing to N as visual confirmation that the mechanism is locked."
The crown looks like a wheel...
...and so does the tourbillon cage (the 70-hour power reserve is indicated on the bottom right hand corner)...
I wonder if it is not the first asymetrical case of the brand made in NTPT.
The baseplate and bridges are in grade 5 Titanium.
The barrel and tourbillon are placed along a single axis which helps gaining room, which is quite a nice feature: