You could have seen some unique bling on head coach Pep Guardiola’s wrist final evening. The Spaniard boss wore an uber-rare Richard Mille watch on the sidelines on the Bernabeu.
The timepiece, often called a Calibre RM27-01, is price roughly $1.3 million and is one in every of solely fifty variations worldwide.
At 19 grams, it has been touted because the lightest mechanical watch ever. And that weight consists of the strap. Mille particularly tailor-made it for tennis sensation Rafael Nadal.
The high-end watch design features a particular suspension system just like that utilized in suspension bridges. The watch’s internal workings are held in place by 4 skinny metal cables, every solely 0.35mm huge, that are tightly secured to maintain all the things steady. The manual-winding watch has yellow markers for hours and minutes and a red-tipped hand to point out the time.
Guardiola is an enormous fan of luxurious watches, with an envious assortment that features the $70,000 Patek Philippe Annual Calendar Chronograph 5905P. A few of his gamers, notably Erling Haaland, even have glorious selections in high-end watches.
Guardiola has by no means been shy about revealing his good vogue style. In any case, he modeled for designer Antonio Miro at a vogue present within the mid-Nineties.
Actual Madrid and Metropolis go into subsequent week’s second leg on the Etihad 3-3 on combination.
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