There's no regatta, but there's a watch dedicated to it!
There was bad news for sailors at the beginning of this year, who'd been hoping to achieve the top result at one of the most famous Caribbean regattas and win a watch by competition partner Richard Mille. The Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille organizing team announced the super-yacht regatta would be postponed until 2022.
Now competing crews will have to wait until next April for their chance to win a watch. Nevertheless, Richard Mille hasn't postponed this year's release of the company's special model for navigators and skippers. It won't be possible to win a RM 60-01 Les Voiles De St Barth watch as a trophy, but a limited edition of 80 pieces will be available for purchase.
The new Richard Mille RM 60-01 Les Voiles De St Barth has a 50 mm round titanium case, which is an unusual choice for the brand. It features a bi-directional rotating bezel which can be aligned with the UTC hand to use the RM 60-01 as a compass. The same hand performs the UTC function to tell the time in a second time zone.
The countdown to the start can be timed using the 60-minute countdown timer at 9 o'clock. The chronograph also has a quick-locking and releasing safety mechanism to prevent the chronograph pushers from being pressed accidentally. All you need to do is wind the secondary crown until the red triangle appears to lock the crown itself and the pushers.
The flyback function can be activated using the pusher between 4 and 5 o'clock, which allows you to reset the running chronograph and launch a new countdown without having to stop the mechanism first. The engineers at Richard Mille have made it possible to stop the second hand when setting the time in order to ensure accuracy.
The annual calendar will help you count down the days to the start of the multi-day regatta. The day is shown in an aperture in the upper half of the dial. The numerals on the two disks are framed in the aperture and can be observed thanks to the watch's skeletonized dial. A second aperture for the month sits between 4 and 5 o'clock.