Indeed, the only thing Mille retained was a reverence for peerless finish and quality in his craft. What was once heavy, he made wonderfully, ethereally, almost unbearably light.
What once deified the past, he connected to the future. What was once hidden, he made transparent. What was once round, he made into a Space Age tonneau that shimmered with Futurist manifesto velocity even standing still. It was brought on by the singular vision of a man who was the ultimate rebel genius, who eschewed every existing aesthetic, technical and even material convention and cliche. The change has been seismic, pervasive and irreversible. There has been no modern brand in watchmaking history, created by a living founder, that has had such a massive global impact not just on horology, but also on contemporary culture itself. Now upon the 20th anniversary of his brand, I believe that truth is self-evident in a René Descartes irrefutable evidence of God’s existence kind of way. For two decades, I have told anyone that would listen that the watch world would one day be divided into the era before Richard Mille and the era after.
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