Skeletonisation: Shaping Spaces — RICHARD MILLE

Skeletonisation is an artistic discipline that reveals the inner architecture of a movement by removing all non-essential material. Richard Mille approaches skeletonisation from a fundamentally different angle. Rather than removing material for decorative purposes, it is conceived as an engineering process from the outset. Components such as the baseplate and bridges are designed as openworked structures from the very beginning, optimised for strength, rigidity, and weight reduction. Skeletonisation is not added, it is integrated at the very core of the construction.