Richard Mille

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don't want anyone to think I'm criticizing RM035

I'm just trying to make some sense of why it weighs a lot more at 41g than the 23g I figured it ought to weigh. I just assumed that the ultra light-weight magnesium-aluminum alloy was used to make the case much lighter. It still doesn't make sense to me that you could get a watch down to 46g with a titanium case if you made the RM010 a manual wind and gave it a poly urethane strap. That's only 5g away from the 41g. I'm wondering what accounts for the extra 41g - 23g=18g of the RM035. Perhaps the case of the RM035 is much thicker than the case of the RM010 and that explains some of the extra weight. Since titanium is so much stronger than magnesium, maybe the case of the RM035 just has to be thicker. But, then what was the purpose of using the lighter magnesium-aluminum if the case had to be thicker? Anyway, I'm not trying to criticize RM035, but just trying to understand why it is so much heavier than I would have expected.
Greg