Richard Mille and Colnago unveil a skeleton tourbillon for collectors
Richard Mille and Colnago turned racing-bike codes into a 50-piece skeleton tourbillon, with a 274-part movement and a price tag around 800,000 Swiss francs.
Colnago and Richard Mille unveiled the RM 64-01 Tourbillon Colnago on June 29, a 50-piece skeleton tourbillon that turns racing-bike geometry into one of the year’s most collector-driven watch gifts. The watch lands squarely in the zone where horology, sporting mythology and scarcity do the heavy lifting, with a case in White and Azure Blue Quartz TPT and 5N red gold details.
Richard Mille said the manual-winding movement contains 274 components, runs for about 65 hours, and displays hours and minutes through a skeletonized architecture built around lightness, transparency and volume. The crown carries Colnago’s ace-of-clubs symbol, a small but pointed nod to the bike maker’s identity, while the exposed construction gives the piece the same visual drama collectors expect from Richard Mille’s most extreme references.
Colnago framed the watch as a tribute to the architecture of a racing bicycle frame. The brand pointed to star-shaped bridge sections inspired by Gilco tubes and micro-lugs that honor the C Series bicycles handmade in Cambiago, Italy. That detail matters because Colnago’s own frame history has long been tied to stiffness and low weight, including the Master frame from the 1980s, which helped set the brand’s reputation for technical elegance rather than brute-force engineering.
Nicola Rosin, Colnago’s chief executive, said the brand found in Richard Mille a partner capable of interpreting Colnago’s history, codes and idea of performance in a new language, adding that the watch shows what it means to turn technique into culture. That is the right lens for the price, which one report placed at about 800,000 Swiss francs: this is not a cycling-themed novelty, but a mechanical trophy aimed at buyers who already understand why a Tour de France-winning silhouette can translate into wristwear.
Richard Mille also tied the launch to its broader cycling roster, citing Mark Cavendish, Mathieu van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar and UAE Team Emirates. The brand’s relationship with UAE Team Emirates dates to 2021, and its tie to Pogačar was formalized in 2025, giving the new Colnago piece the feel of a long-built alliance rather than a one-off collaboration.
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