How Sylvester Stallone inspired Richard Mille to craft a $983,000 watch

The RM 25-01 is meant to invoke the spirit of a wild-card Vietnam-era badass who is the central character in a film called First Blood, says James Stacey

Buckle up, buttercup, as this may well be peak Richard Mille. Nothing short of a wrist-full, the newly announced Richard Mille RM 25-01 Tourbillon Adventure is a high-tech chronograph that also happens to feature a tourbillon, a mountable compass, a level and a hermetically sealed cache of water purification tablets. Oh, and it was born of a friendship between Richard Mille (the man) and Sylvester Stallone, as a sort of study into the kind of watch that John Rambo might have worn. You can’t make this stuff up, and the RM 25-01 is a fittingly complicated, stupendously expensive, and very