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J Balvin was spotted trying out Zach 's exclusive and rare Richard Mille RM 88 "Smiley Tourbillon" in sapphire. The highlight of this watch is the Smiley, a universal language, drawn by Franklin Loufrani just over 50 years ago. Around the Smiley’s radiant face, an array of miniature sculptures takes possession of the RM 88 Automatic Tourbillon Smiley’s movement. The striking Smiley figure in yellow gold, micro-blasted and painted, presides over this landscape from atop the additional motion-work bridge in microblasted ARCAP® with polished anglage and drawn edges. Featuring a larger echo of the rainbow motif, it gleams with faint reflections thanks to hand-applied varnishes, contrasting with its anthracite-coloured rhodium plating. No effort has been spared in the finishing, down to the tiniest detail of each element in this display. The cocktail glass is an assembly of four parts, all in gold. The umbrella, the olive (1.7 mm in height), the 0.4 mm-diameter grooved straw – all polished – and the glass itself, its base micro-blasted to convey its chill, weigh a total of just 0.4 g. The gold flower above it is mirror-polished, its petals brushed and rhodium-plated. The pink flamingo, 0.2 g of red gold, also undergoes multiple processes: its wings are polished and their feathers traced with the tip of a Dégussit grinding stone; its eye is made using the smallest beading tool in existence; its pedestal is micro-blasted and the part that depicts the grass and water is polished. The component is given a metallic pink PVD coating before the beak is painted black using a brush. The production of the sapphire structure is a watchmaking milestone of technical achievement itself and took years of research. Creating a case of this quality usually takes over 1000 hours of machining of which 430 hours were spent on pre-forming the case components and 350 hours on polishing the whole case. The manual winding tourbillon movement offers hours, minutes and power-reserve indicator.

Retail Price : $2,850,000.00
Market Price : $6,000,000.00

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