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Today's review is gonna be on the Richard Mille RM 055 Bubba Watson.
So this particular watch was created for the professional golfer, Bubba Watson.
Like everything that Richard Mille does, it has some type of a new technology or something
that can sort of, you know, fit it as a tool watch for the individual that they're making
the watch for.
When I first started seeing the Bubba Watson, I immediately compared it to the RM35, the
Nadal.
Now, there's a lot of similarities, but they're also very different.
For one, the Nadal is way lighter, but they do share that same principle, where the movement
is kind of just cradled in the middle with shock absorbers in four points to insulate
the movement from impact.
Something pretty cool, you know how Richard Mille does, everything is complicated, nothing
is very simple.
They go over, above and beyond and over engineer everything in a fancy way.
The only difference is it has a clear caseback and it pretty much is made out of ceramic
instead of carbon.
And like I mentioned earlier, the movement is the same.
The only difference is the mountain points for the case that actually insulates the movement
from vibrations.
One thing that I wanna mention is that the whole time that I had seen this watch, I kind
of always thought that it was all made out of white ceramic, but I had overlooked the
fact that Richard Mille in their true fashion will make it complicated complicated somehow
some way.
The top plate is actually the only thing that's white ceramic, whereas the sides and the bottom
caseback is actually titanium that's fully wrapped in like some complicated technology
with white rubber.
I mean, I don't know how I feel about that.
They say it's part of the way to also insulate, but I kind of just get kind of worried.
It kind of scares me like how the rubber-clad bezels back in the days of the Aps that get
nicked up and then the metal shows under.
I kind of would have probably maybe wanted it to do it all ceramic.
That's just my only thing.
I mean, I'm sure they had their reason behind it, but it was actually quite a surprise for
me.
Now, the movement is manual wound and has a power reserve of 55 hours.
One thing I want to talk about is the strap.
From factory, this watch comes fitted with a white rubber strap.
Now you guys know how I feel about the rubber strap for RM.
I love them!
This example that I have here today has the black Velcro, which I think is kind of funny
actually because such an expensive watch with Velcro holding it.
It's a canvas strap with a Velcro strap on the bottom, but I like the look of it, the
whole contrast kind of plays well with me.
Now, I'm not a fan of white watches, but I'm gonna say that this particular one is one
of my more favorite ones.
I don't know what it is about the white watches.
I guess it kind of like gives me flashbacks of that ceramic, Big Bang from back in the
days, but overall the whole white look of the Bubba for me is what tends to be the signature
of this model.
So let's talk some prices.
The retail of this watch is $104,000 more or less.
Right now with today's market, that Richard Mille is hot and there isn't any available.
You're gonna be paying in the mid-100's, easily 140 all day.
So if you're looking to pick one up, don't be surprised about this over-retail that's
going on right now with these watches and they're doing it on purpose.
I feel that there putting the retails low on purpose, so that the market drives the
prices up and then the watches are always over-retail, thus, making them geniuses because
their watches go over retail.
So as far as the Watch Game goes, an RM55 is a heavy hitter.
It's a no-brainer.
I mean we're talking about over a hundred thousand, exclusive, not everybody has it,
so obviously it's a heavy hitter man.
In the game, it's a serious watch.
Obviously, there's gonna be bigger ones when you go into the rose gold or the RM11, stuff
like that, but it's a solid, heavy-hitter in the Watch Game.
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My name is Eric, Watch Your Style!