Why Is Richard Mille SO Expensive?!
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- Why does this Richard Mille cost $325,000? Five years ago, it was a $100,000 watch. Today it’s over three times that. Why?
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For that kind of money, the damned thing should handle February as well.
Yet you can buy Casio/Citizen that handles February better with 1/1000 price
@@ahha6304 Keeps better time, too!
@@ahha6304and they are also made in millions and worn by 5 yo kids 👧
Richard Mille absolutely are instantly recognizable, unless you're trying to recognize the time.
Lol
😂😂
The kind of people who buy RMs consider the extortionate price a selling point.
Richard Mille: we only make 5000 watches a year, so supply is very limited.
Also Richard Mille: half of our watches we make we give to every living breathing celebrity to help us with marketing.
Lol
Honestly it's like crypto burning their own token but RM marketing was way way freaking better and everybody got baited
The evolution is Invicta -> Hublot -> Richard Mille (when you win the loto)
BEWARE THE PIPELINE
Hahahaha 😂 perfect!
Hahahahahahahahahah😂
It's money laundering as always
Richard Mille occurs to me the same way the Kardashians do: I don't understand the appeal of something so ostentatious and unattractive, and I don't understand people who do.
It’s quite simple. I’d argue people buy these watches not for the love of horology, but for the love of letting everyone know just how much money you have.
Now there's a target for the muggers!@@craigfisher1937
I couldn't agree more!
Because Richard Mille has celebrity ambasadors, so they can claim only the most exclusive VIP can use or afford their watches, yes, it doesn't make sense to me either.
The Emperor has no clothes...but at least he's wearing a fancy watch!
I’ve only had the pleasure of seeing two people wearing a real model from this brand… and they didn’t disappoint… They were the embodiment of the definition of the word ‘tool’….
The people or the watch ?
@@BoSSLeVeLs I think I know which one.
Those would be instantly-rich tech bros. Add in professional athletes who suddenly find themselves with 8-figure contracts. I'm willing to bet that "old money" is a tiny fraction of the market for these things.
That's about who i expect to buy quarter mill watches that look they came from a gumball machine
I don't understand the hype. If money weren't a factor, because I would just sell a RM if I had one, but given the choice of picking between RM and something like an F.P. Journe, no question I'd choose the work from a master watch maker.
These toys are just Tulips.
I don't know why, but when I hear Richard Mille, The story of the King's New Clothes comes to mind.
"Richard MIlle is just Invicta overpriced"
I said that in comment of some video
Any person looking to purchase a watch such as this should first take a long hard look into a mirror.
@3:40 Andrew, the F1 drivers don't wear their watches in the cars, so these watches did not survive the accidents you list. You will see the drivers get handed the watches at the end of the qualifying/race to be wearing for the interviews.
Good point. It's like wearing a watch during your workout - senseless and distracting.
It was audacious and brilliant to make a new watch brand whose principal attraction is that is ridiculously expensive and overpriced. No need to slowly build up a brand's prestige over the decades and more than a century; just make is super expensive from the get go, and give it a look similar to a metal G-shock, and the "more money than brains" crowd" (of which there are too many these days) would buy it compulsively simply to show off their enormous wealth.
Couldn't agree more, and it's UGLY!
The weirdest thing is it happened twice, Hublot was founded in 1980, and twice the same decade with Fossil. In short, no matter the money, there is always going to be people that like the smell of their own farts.
RE: these watches surviving F1 crashes - I very much doubt that. I recall reading that F1 drivers are required to remove all jewelry including wedding rings when they are driving for safety reasons. Can anyone refute or confirm?
I know that rally driver Sebastian Loeb and Ogier have RM on their wrists while racing. F1 drivers have a picture of a sponsored watch on a racing glove.
Confirmed. I wrote in another comment that the FIA and medical staff were even making a safety point out of Lewis Hamilton's nose piercing and earrings.
Besides: Don't forget that the first thing that drivers do when they get out of the car and congratulate the team is take a swig of water, dry their face, put on their cap and *put on their watch* . No driver is allowed to drive with a watch.
Today is forbidden to wear anything besides the safety apparels. Back when RM was founded not so.
I think it all about gross weight
@@absoliut Safety reasons.
I'd rather get 1000 g shocks than whatever this shit is 😂😂
It’s quite complex to understand but all I can say is that it’s brilliant marketing
So you have to get it serviced , for warranty , guy let his daughter swim with it , and it was damaged , Mille would not cover repair , service for warranty , on these starts at $7500 to _$14000 must be done every 16 months and takes 9 months to get back , also most of them are plastic ,are you nuts !
She didn’t go for a swim she went in a sauna which is bad for almost all watches, and you’re pretty stupid for just calling it “plastic” you just post the same ignorant comment everyone else posts. All brands are annoying with services, you can just take it to a watch repairer
RM biggest inventory is in 'grey market dealers" they control the prices...
Things cost that much because people will pay that much for them. YW Cheers!
I would love to own a watch from RM, Jacob & Co, and AP.
However...I would be paranoid wearing something so extremely expensive. Watches of this caliber maintain their value. And they only increase in value, as each day passes.
Glad I got one for only 50.
Oh yeah the RiChina Mill one.
Oh yeah the RiChina Mille one.
You can get one in Turkey for €10 and a curly wurly
I'm going to beat Richard Mille at their own game... Our watches are going to cost $10 million a piece and be so exclusive we won't actually make any.
This watch should be able to take you to the shops and back for that price
Richard Mille is the Damien Hirst of watches.
Tadej had one. I don't remember if he got it back
It cost that much because some people have just too much money. They don’t care how much something costs.
It's very simple - conspicuous consumption. Rich people love to buy things that are expensive and recognisable as expensive - no point buying an old master that nobody can recognise - buy a Warhol or a Liechtenstein that everyone can recognise instead. they are aimed at the shallow and insecure - you rarely (if ever) see them worn by old money wealthy people, it is new money that buys them
You know it for sure? And in your idea of new and old money, where do you place old noble families and accolades in the oil industry in Middle East?
Nobody at all wears that kind of a clunker. It's just too much of a doorframe magnet.
When i see the dial, i can only see the skeleton of the watch😂😂😂😂
just over hyped by celebrities with branded collabs.
I've handled a few they're nothing special and definitely not worth the price tag. They're no better than a 1500$ watch
I wonder who the original people were who designed the rectangular shape watches. Richard Mille has quality craftsmanship . I know they were not the original watch company to come up with that body design 😊
7750…equivalent automatic K from 1947
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There are lots of idiots with money. RM built a business around them.
Yes indeed.....but specific the ones without taste and style ;)
Still better quality than most APs on the market lmao y’all don’t care about quality you just hate whatever is popular to hate
@@GODOFLIQUOR He flat out says it isn't worth 100k and people are like " but will you take 250k for it?" Dumb....
@@sirthom3275This is the point to show off you have money to burn.
They're so ugly, large, and obnoxious. Put Invicta on the dial and I'd believe it to be one of their original designs.
Extroverted thinking is opposed by Introverted Feeling
Like many I find them offensive. But then again, I collect mid century Longines tanks, so what do I know?
The rrp is so high to offset the amount of watches they give away to celebrities 🤔
Your photography makes every watch look awesome but these macros just show this watches imperfections.
Just clicked on the video, any timestamps of when you see imperfections?
For the folks that know the price of everything and the value of nothing
First of all..we don’t need watches 2023?? Second I would rather have Valjoux movement with all its history than a Richard Mille…Richard reminds me of the Dutch tulip 🌷 mania from 1600-1720…if my Valjoux went down from 5000 to $500 I wouldn’t give a shit!! I still keep wearing Valjoux for the next 50 😊years..
I had no idea Grosjean was wearing his RM when his crash at Bahrain happened. TIL.
U r right, in theory drivers don’t wear watches when they r racing on the track
He didn't, and neither did Alonso wear a watch while driving. Drivers are not allowed to wear accessories. The FIA and medical staff were already hampering Lewis Hamilton on his nose ring and Charles Leclerc on his ring. So don't except drivers to be allowed to race with bulky wrist watches. It's just marketing.
LOL. If you can afford a watch that expensive….I guess you can afford a security detail!
Obviously it's a method to separate people with far, far too much money from a chunk of that money.
I will rather buy an invicta and Pagani design and give the rest to the charity.
Lmao it aint supposed to “tick” like that… 😂
I think I will get 5 of them
Not impressive at all. Sold my 5712 for 155k bought it for 27k.
The outward advert to the world that the wearer has money but absolutely zero taste.
Why waste all that fabulous watchmaking in a shell that looks like your dog puked on the carpet
100% :)
Same for Hublot
This watch is $200K US. S. Steel RM 30 is about $150K now & dropping 😎 I like them under $70K 🥂
Richard mille customer nowadays alot selling away their watches and the watch itself is getting boring nowadays and moving back to patek rolex and fp joun. Because their watch too much problem and doesn't less long. Price is tripled but having people buy it also a problem
Bonkers!!
😂rip off
there's absolutely no reason why a watch like that would cost that much.
I sold my home, and my car , I got divorced. I'm gonna use my 401k. im getting closer to owning a Richard Mille. 😃
I really didn't know F1 drivers wear a watch as they're driving!
Not today.
Can’t grasp why people like these, but detest and belittle Hublot?
It Makes Hublot look good value 😂😂😂
My opinion on RM: even less interesting and less desirable than a Rolex, and for very similar reasons.
I don’t have the funding for that kind of piece, and if I did, I’d be looking at Urwerk, MB&F or maybe FPJ, ALS, or VC, not RM
I just dont see the appeal
Waist off money once the bubble burst there will be a few people who put every thing into a watch like this wll end up in a nut house £300,000 a lot of money to loose.
Actually the only reason Richard Mille sold his first watch at a quarter million was because he didn't believe it would be a success. And he needed to pay so many overheads.
It's a design abomination. CHAV w/Cash is its statement.
Is that hole at the 6 o clock
This has to be the brand that the CEO of Christopher Ward intimated has a mark-up of 55x.
Is it not true that Rolex is a more durable watch
Can somebidy pls recommend cool green watches?
Girard-perregaux laureato chronograph is the coolest green watch i've ever seen
It’s cost this much because there are enough rich people with more money than they know what to do with.
These watches cost very very little to make , compared to the retail price.
It’s great marketing putting watches on the correct wrists, it’s a well thought out well executed business plan, don’t see the appeal tbh 👍
Stupid rich..
I do not get these watches. It's rubber strap can't just be swapped so it's is utterly impractical and most of them are just utterly ugly.
Utterly butterly
Whenever Mr Mille needs a new private jet, RM prices will got up a few notches to cater for his whims & fancy
No one pays attention to Haas, lads.
The romain grosjean video must be insanely fake because drivers are not allowed to wear any jewlery on track... Do better and more research mate
ha Ha! out today I drop kicked my garmin to prove it's better than my friends sub....would ya
do that with a RM?
Do Richard Milles even have any horological significance?
DOES The Perpetual Calendar Mechanical WATCHES HAVE END LIFE IN 2099 LIKE DIGITAL WATCH WITH PERPETUAL CALENDER WATCH? OR IT NEED TO CORRECT THE TIME AND DATE IN YEAR 2100
Watchfinder should do more new watch segments like it used too. The new format is a bit boring.
All the luxury watches are scams for millionaires who don't care about loosing money😂😂
Richard Mille is one the most successful marketing con jobs in modern history
Real watch guys know this is way overpriced and not gonna hold value.
There r a lot of fools on this planet, hence this watch
It's a Veblen good, as are most high-end watches. But it also makes you look like a massive attention-seeker, which... I guess is a plus for some people.
Naah. Can't put it on a nylon strap.
Those watches only value is whst somwone willing to pwy.
Really less “stunning & brave” and more “craven & debauched”. All they did was piggyback on the rise of flex culture, and the luxury watch market’s part in that, and design a status symbol that could be easily picked up by any camera…and satellite. Their marketing is a modern interpretation of Rolex’s original marketing; get your watch on the wrist of the heroic & capable of the day (except in the on-demand media age, mere claims weren’t gonna cut it). They made the 0.01% watch. Nothing really brilliant about it, just a moderate understanding of status & those who crave it.
Overpriced!!
I only see them on the wrist of people I have no respect for. Like athletes.
You have no respect for athletes? Surely you have to respect the dedication and hard work it takes to get to the top of any sport
Not respect is too harsh not really what I meant. I don't disrespect them. I just meant I don't care about them and find their entire industry to be annoying. Just like Christmas is.
Can't believe people still wear watches. Why lug something around on your wrist when you can just take a quick look at your phone. Silly junk for wealthy individuals to impress the easily impressed.
Money and taste 🍑💨
Wretched excess !
Money laundering
that's just ugly!!!
Cause of capitalism
If you’re broke just say that…
I was stay in a very nice hotel in Mallorca this summer….the level of bellendness correlated perfect to their watches….
It's a nope from me, would have a alange & sohne over that and any of the rm's they are awful looking things, very much in the same vein as hublot...😅
A fool and is money soon part and that fool and his money never should have gotten together in the first place.
I did say his money because there isn’t a woman in the world that would buy these watches. Thanks Andrew
Yep, madness with watches and their prices is, sadly, a male pastime!
someone figured out a way to sell invicta to millionaires
I would not wear one even if they gave it to me but...I would sell it. 😁
Stupid looking watch look like it came out of a gumball machine
Great watch making. But I have to wash my eyes with bleach after seeing one.
More expensive watch doesnt mean better watch. Complete garbage for the value for any idiot who buys this watch imo. Even amazon billionaire only wears a $5000 breitling watch and ceo of toyota wears grand seiko watch. Invest is a joke for this watch 😂
I think tuder black bay 58-54, longenes are all brilliant value watches and a good old Seiko for knocking about in 👍🏻.
Ps Tissot prx 80 automatic bit overdone but ok for the money , but I think i would give the prx digital a miss 🤮.
@@DainSmart-vm7pc Can’t deny Longines value. I moved from a Hydroconquest to a Breitling Superocean. The Breitling is better in every way but only by a very small margin, yet cost 3 x the price. I think that Longines is the sweet spot but sooner or later you get the urge to get something better, but you’ll have to pay for it.
Grand Seiko is just so much more value for money than any other luxury brand.
@@SRADracer my favorite are grand Seiko, longines and breitling so far.. I'll do a hard pass for Rolex over priced watches.. Tudor is great but getting overpriced imo.
@@SRADracer Ot may well be, it the name… it may as well be a Grand Lorus or a Grand Timex. Seiko doesn’t shout luxury.
That's a lot of money for a glorified Hublot.