Richard Mille

I have just purchased (arrived this morning) a RM 010 RG which I am delighted with. My decision was very much helped by the contributors on this forum so thanks very much for the useful advice , great pictures and knowlegde imparted on the site.

My initial impresions are it is smaller than i was expecting but not in a negative way for me , I am used to AP Royal Oak offshore rubber clad , Cartier santos 100 and a number of Panerai all which feel much larger on the wrist.

The detailing is exquisite , very comfortable with unusual but excellent spring loaded deployment clasp .

I am a big motorsport and car nut so the association appeals to me.

My request is concerning the winding mechanism and the instructions which I dont fully understand. It refers to a torque  sensor located on the right of the watch but I am unsure to what it refers.

Can anyone help as I am reluctant to attemp without any guidance. I am assuming like all my other watches merely the wearing of the watch will power the mechanism without winding anyway if it has stopped.

I had the watch sent to me from a dealer in London as I live in Scotland so didnt get the benefit of any tuition.

Thanks in advance.

.. first of all CONGRATS on a great watch

I don't think the RM10 has a torque indicator. The documentation looks like it might refer to another RM watch like the RM2, or 3 maybe.

I have the RM005 which essentially has the same movement - just not as open as the 10 and I don't have this indicator.

These watches have the variable geometry rotors (can't be set by the user) but there's no indication for the torque on the barrel.

Hope this helps

Cheers

-Sam

Thanks for this as it looks like you may be right all the other docs relate to the RM 010 but the one sheet that refers to the torque sensor has no model reference on it so it may have been inserted to the docs case by mistake. As the RM 010 and RM 005 have the same movement do you actually have to wind your watch or is the energy of wearing it enough ? Thanks in advance.

 

 

If you're sedentary most of the day and wearing an automatic winding watch, u'll still have to manually wind the watch cause you're not moving around enough to cause the rotor to spin around and store energy at a greater rate than you're using the stored energy.

Cheers,
Anthony

As I am new to RM's and there doesnt seem to be instructions for winding if the watch stops firstly which direction does the crown wind in to wind the watch up and secondly how many revolutions are appropriate. My other watches all came with clear instructions on this. Sorry if this is silly question just keen not to damage it.

 

and if u wear the watch on your wrist every day, you won't need to wind it as much so I'd just manually wind it 20 times and that should be enough to ensure u're at full power.

Don't worry about manually overwinding the watch cause automatic watches these days have a mechanism which prevents overwinding.

Cheers,
Anthony

Very helpfull thanks