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How Richard Mille Takes Quartz Watches to a Surprising Level

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North Thin Ply Technology ( NTPT ) is a Lausanne -based manufacturer of high-tech composites for America ’s Cup yachts, satellites, F1 cars, and aerospace.

NTPT 's work with Richard Mille , the Swiss watch brand known for engineering and designs as highly evolved as its price points (the average is around $311,000 a watch).

Richard Mille watches are the result of extensive R&D at the luxury brand.

NTPT is responsible for some of the lightest and thinnest watches ever made, such as the 1.75 -millimeter-thick RM UP-01 Ferrari .

Every new color represents a substantial technical effort to produce it and to get it right, says Alexandre Mille .

The hallmark wavy stripes of a watch like the RM 35-03 are made by including differently colored stacks at regular intervals.

Fusing and hardening the material takes place under heat and pressure in an autoclave oven resembling a small blue submersible.

The resulting Quartz TPT block is cut up into barrel-shaped case blanks by a high-precision waterjet.

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