Richard Mille

Mark in Paris
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I quite agree ...

Personally, I like contemporary styles and I'm quite open-minded about design choices, liking classics and in the same time many of the UFOs poping here and there since  less than 2 decades.

Nevertheless, I would maybe like to add, for the defense of the more classic brands, that, from my experience on forums, modern products (in design or in technical architecture) are often hurting watch lovers' taste as many are very conservative . I am sometime surprised how people can be reluctant to choices that hurt usual standards. It's not only a question of taste, but also an active will to discover somethnig completely new.

Thus, I would say that more classic brands' choices have to cope with that and hence can't always decide to integrate more "corruptive" touch in their collections. Some watch lovers can get quickly fed up with too strong 'character' watches, and thus chose something they will keep longer.

About whether a RM wil remain a strong classic in the future or not, aesthetically speaking, I don't know but I would also say yes. As these products have a very strong personality, they will evolve ... maybe as cars do. But for sure they have succeeded in establishing there line in the watch industry (and the technical aspect too of course).

Best,

Mark