Richard Mille RM 055 Bubba Watson: Specs, References, and Market Prices | Ultimate Watch
The Richard Mille RM 055 Bubba Watson is the manual-wind, time-only sports watch that made the RM tonneau reachable for a wider bench of collectors, and it still trades hard on 47th Street every week. Introduced in 2012 as a hand-wound sibling to the RM 038 Bubba Watson tourbillon, the RM 055 keeps the same wrist-machine philosophy but strips it down to hours, minutes, and small seconds. The case runs 49.90mm long by 42.70mm wide by 13.05mm thick in the familiar three-part tonneau, and the standard reference pairs an ATZ white ceramic bezel and caseback with a grade 5 titanium middle case. Inside is the skeletonized RMUL2 caliber, a grade 5 titanium baseplate movement built to survive the shock loads a golf swing throws at a wrist. Water resistance is 50 meters. We buy and sell RM 055s here at Ultimate Diamond because they move: the white ceramic version is one of the most recognized modern Richard Milles, and demand from clients who want the RM look without a six-figure-plus tourbillon has kept it liquid. If you own one or want one, this is the reference we can quote fast.
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The RM 055 lives in Richard Mille lore as the watch that democratized the tonneau, the reference that let a buyer own a real RM without starting at a tourbillon's price. Bubba Watson wore his while winning on tour, which gave the piece a rare thing in the RM catalog: documented athletic use by the namesake, not just a marketing tie-in. The white ceramic version became the poster child, so recognizable that it reads as RM from across a room, and that legibility is exactly why it has held value. On 47th Street it is one of the RM references we can move quickly, because the demand pool is deep with buyers who want in on the brand and see the RM 055 as the smart door into it.
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