La marque Richard Mille est née en 2001, année de présentation de la première montre de la collection: la RM001.
Quinze autres modèles ont suivi, en six ans à peine. Toutes ces montres ont les mêmes points communs … elles bénéficient d’une technique de pointe et utilisent des matériaux totalement nouveaux.

La RM001 est la première montre créée par Richard Mille. Ce tourbillon d'un genre nouveau, dont la filiation avec le monde de l'automobile est indéniable, s'est imposé comme une évidence. Puis vient la RM002, évolution de la première mais équipée cette fois d'une platine en titane et d'un sélecteur de fonctions.
D’une technique avancée, fondée sur la performance, les montres Richard Mille sont innovantes par leur dessin et leur style. Fruit du travail d'une équipe talentueuse d'ingénieurs au sein d'un atelier de production ultra moderne -qui s’agrandit encore pour être opérationnel à l’automne 2007-, les montres Richard Mille sont l'image même d'un concept du 21ème siècle.
Fruit de son association avec Dominique Guenat, la Société Horométrie S.A. élabore ses produits en collaboration avec des manufactures telles que Renaud & Papi, Vaucher ou encore Soprod.

The young brand officially began only in the year 2001, when after a preparatory period of 3 years of development, the first wristwatch, the RM 001 was presented to the public and was followed by more than fifteen further developed new models within a span of only six years.
These Richard Mille timepieces have been created through the application of new materials, methods and concepts in watchmaking the majority of which have never been used before.
The concept was based on three pillars: the best of the technique and innovation; an important artistic and architectural dimension, a watch easy to use, robust; and at last the best of the watch culture, each piece being polished and finished by hand.

The first wristwatch model produced by Richard Mille Watches, the RM 001, was presented at the beginning of the new millennium. In a literal as well as figurative sense, this first new model, the harbinger of several to follow in the ensuing years, was consciously meant to serve as a landmark wristwatch, an embodiment of concepts that could delineate a vision of 21st century watchmaking. Real technological concepts and materials inspired by the world of Formula 1 racing car technology were behind the realization of that first RM 001 tourbillon and this forms a thread through all that followed. In this primary model the basic, no nonsense, no frills approach for a continually growing series of watches was crystallized. It represents the embodiment of Richard Mille’s passion for the world of F1, as well many principles it shares with the aerospace industry and the technological resources that power them.
With its core of operations located in Les Breuleux, Switzerland, a village long associated with the Swiss watchmaking tradition, Richard Mille Watches produces his timepieces, with his partner Dominique Guenat.
The compagnie HOROMETRIE also works with manufactures such as Renaud & Papi, Vaucher and Soprod.