Richard Mille’s RM 020 Tourbillon pocket watch is an ultra-modern time machine that transports men back to a more civilised age.

When the wristwatch became popular a century or so ago, men may have gained convenience, but they lost one of their few means of fancy adornment: the pocket watch fob chain. Even more tragically, they were also denied the ability to execute one of the most graceful movements in a gentleman’s repertoire: the elegant withdrawal of a pocket watch from a waistcoat.
This story is from the July 2019 edition of Philippine Tatler.
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