In an unprecedented feat, Richard Mille has incorporated an artistic creation in sapphire and gold within a tourbillon movement, the RM 57-03 Sapphire Dragon, an innovation that requires the combination of a complex procedure of sapphire machining with the delicate art of engraving.
The dragon, a mythical animal arising from an ancestral imaginary world and eternally intertwined in Oriental culture, has multiple meanings, but in this timepiece it is a symbol of perseverance and success as well as of the power and strength that make it a master of the elements.