A push-button at the centre of the crown selects the crown function, winding, neutral, handsetting, and the function is shown on a small indicator at 4 o’clock. The 70-hour power reserve is shown in a scale at 2 o’clock. The manually-wound movement is a tourbillon, but this takes second place and can be seen at 6 o’clock, below the g-scale mechanism. The watch expresses all this drama in its high-tech design and large size – 47 mm in diameter, 17 mm thick – with a case that provides a great sense of depth. Most people can stand about 5 g vertical axis positive g-force before passing out negative g, when blood gets pushed up towards the head, is less pleasant, and the tolerable maximum is about 2-3 g. Sebastian Loeb is a rally driver and a brand ambassador for Richard Mille, but the watch would be equally interesting to wear in a stunt plane, on a roller coaster, a bobsleigh, translating that weird feeling of everything getting pulled down towards your feet, or in another direction, into a reading on a dial. For this reason, you can rotate the whole assembly using the rotating bezel, which is marked with degrees. The system is operated by a weight that slides along a rod (you can see it below the central button), and so its measurements will be affected by the direction of acceleration or deceleration. The G-force measurement system has a push-button at the centre of the dial, and you simply push the button to reset the mechanism, after which the yellow needle indicates the highest g-force reached, on a scale of up to six. The watch is engineered like a Formula 1 car, and its main function is the G-force measuring system at the centre of the dial. Called the Tourbillon Competition G Sensor Sebastian Loeb, it is built from carbon nanotubes (used in a composite polymer material for the middle section of the case) and titanium, with a rotating bezel in a high-scratch-resistance ceramic in brown colour. Richard Mille is a company born at the start of the millennium and all its products have a high-tech, modernistic look and feel, using high-tech materials such as carbon fibre, titanium and other ultra-light alloys. Richard Mille RM 36-01 Tourbillon Competition G Sensor Sebastian Loeb
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