And that is fact. Look up the interviews with the organisers of the event. When they were looking around for a sponsor, Richard was the only one that came forward and went with it. Typical Richard. And the success of the event is down to Richard's continued enthusiasm and support for the event.
More to the point, read this: http://www.thepurists.com/watch/features/interviews/MilleApr02/
An early interview with Richard on Purists. What you have to understand is that Richard is about the love of technique, whether racing machines from yesteryear, or from today. How you engineer a problem to create more speed, better handling. And Richard takes the influence and learning from that and applies it to watches.
There is everything classic about RM. In fact, as yesteryears racing machines in the Le Mans world become todays classics, so it is with Richard's watches. Look at an RM001 or an RM006 now against when it was introduced. They are the future classics.
Andrew H