Richard Mille

just some quick wristshot phone pictures,   size is perfect for my wrist.

and the light weight of titanium goes perfect with this model.  

 

 

 

but at the forth day of wearing it,  this happend.

 

i am hoping i will get my deployant replacement soon. good thing that i was seating on an airplane when it broke  so watch landed on my lap.   so  cant wear it for now.

 

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Good choice on case material, rubber strap, and bezel color. That's the most popular choice for the RM11 and you shouldn’t have trouble selling or trading if that day comes. If we were to hold a poll, the majority of votes would be for your very RM11 combination. Personally, I'm trying to decide between the LE blue or one just like yours.

Lovely watch, enjoy it

 

Shocking about the deployment break, no excuse for that, as you say lucky you were sat down, what if it happened when you were out at sea or something like that?..bye bye £££££,that pin should be 110% welded to the buckle....shocking

But what if you dropped the watch into a place that you might not be able to get it back...what happens then? Does the boutique gets you a brand new piece? What extent of good faith would a watch brand do such a thing? Some discussions about this please but back to the post, it's shocking indeed! Get it fixed on the pronto. Ask them to throw in a Dom Perignon for good measure...

That is just the poor state of RM and it's finishing, sad to say. My friend's 28 also faced serious malfunction.

I am seriously reconsidering getting any RM soon, going to stick with what I trust and have known for years.

 

I have always struggled a little with using deployments, always found there is a lot hanging on one little pin. I changed the deployment on my 004 to a tang buckle for this reason. Being white gold the watch is quite weighty, and would hate it to fall from wrist height onto a stone floor. I did this once with a Lange & Sohne DP, dropped it from wrist height onto a marble floor, wouldnt wind up after that ( might fault I am afraid, it wasnt a failure )and it cost me 8k euros to fix, so I know the pain!

A failure like this one needs noting and we need to know how & why it failed, when you have lots of $$$$$ hanging on such an item, you need to have confidence in it. How was it fixed?...it looks from your photo like it 'snapped' off where it joins the buckle...is it a failure of the pin breaking or is it a failure due to it coming away from how its fixed to the buckle?

I always think theses things should carry two pins on them, and have dual holed straps, always seems theres a lot riding on that bit' what did the dealer say?....

its a failure of the pin comming away from its welding to the main deployant.

this could have been a disaster if i was walking down the street when this happend.

its a bnib watch  from 2012,    my dealer will get me a warranty replacement on the deployant.

 

i had an ap deployant brake  a couple of years back,  they did replace it too.

it can happen with any brand of watches,   i am not mad at rm  just at my bad luck  jeje

it will probably be back on my wrist by next week.

Doesnt make it right just because it can happen to other brands. That lug should not be welded, surely thats a design fault, should it not pass through the buckle, be fixed that way, blimey, $$$$$$$ worth of watches hanging on a small welded pin....scares me that, thank the lord I swapped the 004 over to a tang then

I think that this bugs me more becuase it is Richard Mille, top tech, made from F1 race cars etc etc, the ethos is Massa crashing in one & it still works, Nadal plays tennis in one, still works, Polo players, golfers etc etc, a lot of the branding is built on strength & Longevity, then we see that the pin on the deployment buckle on a very expensive timepiece can just break off....not good.

I am an RM fan I have a few of his watches, most have been back to RM to get fixed at somepoint, fine, quite happy to accept that these are mechanical watches and therefore yes maybe they go a tad wrong now & again, so long as RM fixes them, fine not a problem, I accept that.

This failure I find extremley worrying ...was out in australia month ago, wnet out to barrier reef...what if my 002 on the deployment buckle snapped off and disapeared over the side out in the deep blue??...that would not be good at all

This doesnt just need replacing, the bit that broke needs sending back to RM and they need to design it better, period...these are not $1.99 casios we are talking about here

Just what i was picturing when I wrote the earlier comment. In the deep blue sea no one can say unless RM brings along an expedition to rescue the fallen(no pun intended) watch.

RCOPPEL has been really lucky on this one.
I share your concern about this, although I am sure this is an isolated incident ...
I have heard from several owners that first generation deployants had an issue where the pin was not fastened securely enough to the strap and could accidentally open up, but those deployants were switched by RM for better designed ones.
Here, I do not think there is a flaw in the design anymore. More likely, this one passed through the quality control process. Granted: it is scary. Granted: this should not happen anymore and should trigger an improvement in the QA process. But in any case, I am sure people at RM will get to the bottom of this and get it fixed as they always do (I am learning this the hard way, having to let go my watch again for weeks after I experienced a very weird mechanical problem, so that they can perform extensive testing on the movement)

I didn't realize this was a brand new purchase, as in NIB from a boutique. I'm shocked the deployment would break so soon (4th day). That would make me paranoid from then on. Hope this was a freak fluke. Never heard of such on a RM before, at least not publicly. The boutiques would know the statistics better and I wonder what they have to say about this.

Still a grail piece in my eyes.  Beatiful watch.  I still want one.

that you chose the titanium version.

However, sorry to hear that the buckle pin.  That should not have happened.  What I do know is that Richard will read this and will be concerned.  It should not have happened, but I am sure that measures will be taken to ensure that it does not happen in the future.

Cheers

Andrew H