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Style Edit: Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer watch keeps up with all your travels

STORYSCMP Style Reporter
Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer. Photo: Handout
Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer. Photo: Handout
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The 47mm round case is finished in red gold with a titanium caseband, while the watch is powered by an in-house CRMA4 automatic calibre

For most people, adjusting to a new time zone means a quick flick of the crown or a phone sync. But for Richard Mille, that’s far too ordinary. Enter the RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer – a watch designed not just for those who travel, but for those who live everywhere at once.

At first glance, it’s unmistakably RM – bold, complex and unapologetically mechanical. The 47mm round case, sculpted in satin-finished red gold with a titanium caseband, feels substantial yet surprisingly wearable. But what really sets the RM 63-02 apart isn’t its size – it’s the ingenious way it handles time zones.
The Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer offers an easy way to keep up with global time zones. Photo: Handout
The Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer offers an easy way to keep up with global time zones. Photo: Handout
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Forget fiddly crowns or hidden pushers. Here, world time adjustment happens directly through the bezel. A simple twist to align your chosen city to 12 o’clock, and instantly, the mechanism within – with an intricate dance of wheels and gears – updates the local time and aligns the 23 other global hubs. A 24-hour titanium flange ensures effortless day-night reading, while a rose-and-burgundy disc adds warmth, contrast and clarity.

View of the back of the Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer. Photo: Handout
View of the back of the Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer. Photo: Handout

Powering it all is the in-house CRMA4 automatic calibre, built on a baseplate and bridges of grade 5 titanium. Look closer, and you’ll see the monumental bridge on the dial side – circular-brushed, rhodium-coated and dramatically openworked to reveal the moving world-timer mechanism beneath. There’s also an oversized date at 12 o’clock and a function selector at 4 o’clock, letting you toggle between winding, setting or neutral mode with a satisfying click.

Inspecting the ingenious movement of the Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer. Photo: Handout
Inspecting the ingenious movement of the Richard Mille RM 63-02 Automatic Worldtimer. Photo: Handout

It’s the kind of technical mastery that only Richard Mille could make look this elegant. The bezel alone comprises 12 dedicated components, while the case totals 106 – each finished with Mille’s signature precision and obsession for durability. The RM 63-02 was tested through 5,000 bezel rotations, with seals verified every 1,000 to guarantee water resistance up to 30 metres.

Meanwhile, a 20° involute gear profile and fast-rotating barrel ensure the best possible energy transmission to the variable-inertia balance wheel, delivering a 50-hour power reserve through its red gold and titanium rotor.

In short, this isn’t just a world timer. It’s Richard Mille reimagining what it means to travel through time – one perfectly engineered turn after another.

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