Richard Mille has spent two decades designing watches for women, and the Richard Mille RM HJ-02 In-House Automatic Tourbillon is how the brand marks the milestone. The second chapter in its high jewelry saga, introduced in 2026, comprises 12 unique timepieces divided into four color families—pink, violet, blue, and green—with stones treated as an integral part of the watch’s construction.
The Richard Mille RM HJ-02 In-House Automatic Tourbillon is a high jewelry collection of 12 unique watches in four color families. Each is set with 1,399 precious and ornamental stones and runs the skeletonized in-house CRMT2 automatic tourbillon caliber with a power reserve of around 50 hours.
Each family carries its own name: Pink Pursuit, Violet Variations, Blue Ballet, and Green Gambit. Every one of the 12 watches is set with 1,399 precious and ornamental stones, and the palette runs well beyond diamonds. Rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and Paraíba tourmalines share space with malachite, chrysoprase, turquoise, and mother-of-pearl, alongside other vibrant precious and ornamental stones that give each piece its own color story.
The setting is as much about structure as sparkle. Richard Mille’s gem-setters use snow, grain, and bezel-setting techniques to organize color and define the watch’s lines, carving and layering volumes so that stones of different sizes and shades build a visual rhythm across the case, the buckle, and the movement. Counting every stage of the process, from preparation through finishing and multiple control procedures, the brand puts the work at nearly 700 hours per watch, or roughly 88 full working days.
The shape is still a Richard Mille tonneau, though not the smooth one most collectors know. The RM HJ-02 draws on the geometric vocabulary of Art Deco, breaking the case’s usual uninterrupted curve into sharp transitions, layered planes, and asymmetrical interruptions. The case alone took more than a year to develop, part of a development time of more than three years for the watch as a whole.
Beneath the stones is a new in-house movement, the skeletonized CRMT2 automatic tourbillon, which displays hours and minutes. Its baseplate and bridges are machined from 18k white gold, microblasted, beveled by hand, and gem-set themselves, so the jewelry continues into the mechanics instead of stopping at the bezel. The gem-set gold rotor uses a One-Way reverser system mounted on ceramic ball bearings, and a fast-rotating barrel and a free-sprung balance with variable inertia support chronometric stability over a power reserve of around 50 hours.
The figures underline how compact that architecture is. The CRMT2 measures 30.70mm by 23.70mm and 6.20mm thick, with 23 jewels and a frequency of 4 Hz. Richard Mille’s usual engineering details carry over too: a 20-degree pressure-angle gear-tooth profile developed for its in-house calibers, spline screws in grade 5 titanium for the bridges and case, and sapphire crystals treated with anti-glare coating on both sides.
To introduce the collection, Richard Mille created the Dazzling Division, a group of women the brand describes as “a syndicate of brilliance” and the embodiment of its new high jewelry line. It is a fitting frame for a brand whose women’s watches have embraced color before, as in its RM 07-01 ceramics.
With only 12 pieces and no two alike, the Richard Mille RM HJ-02 is a collection in name and a series of one-offs in practice. Richard Mille has not published pricing for the collection.
| Property | Specification |
|---|---|
| Model | RM HJ-02 In-House Automatic Tourbillon |
| Edition | 12 unique pieces in four color families: Pink Pursuit, Violet Variations, Blue Ballet, and Green Gambit |
| Case | Gem-set tonneau case with Art Deco-inspired geometry |
| Stones | 1,399 precious and ornamental stones per watch |
| Setting techniques | Snow, grain, and bezel setting |
| Gem-setting time | Nearly 700 hours per watch |
| Movement | In-house caliber CRMT2, skeletonized automatic-winding tourbillon |
| Functions | Hours, minutes |
| Baseplate and bridges | 18k white gold, microblasted, hand-beveled, gem-set |
| Rotor | Gem-set gold with One-Way reverser system on ceramic ball bearings |
| Balance | Free-sprung with variable inertia; CuBe, four arms, four setting weights |
| Balance spring | AK 3 |
| Movement dimensions | 30.70mm x 23.70mm |
| Movement thickness | 6.20mm |
| Jewels | 23 |
| Frequency | 4 Hz (28,800 vph) |
| Power reserve | Around 50 hours (±10%) |
| Crystal | Sapphire with anti-glare treatment on both sides |
| Price | Not published |
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