Richard Mille watches are among the most sought-after timepieces on the Internet, even though their prices put them beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest watch collectors. The most viewed watch in the WorldTempus database of over 12,000 timepieces this year was the Richard Mille RM 52-01 Skull Nano-Ceramic. The name alone hints at which this particular Richard Mille model was the most popular. It has the trendy skull motif that we have seen on other models this year (although in this case it actually forms the baseplate of the movement) and uses a high-tech material for its case that is typical of the brand.
Hublot’s Big Bang celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, so it’s little surprise that the brand’s iconic model, which has defined a generation of watchmaking, makes our top five list of the most viewed watches in 2015. The model in question is the Big Bang Yacht Club Monaco, perhaps capitalizing in interest in the millionaire’s playground.
An association with a leading sports personality often makes a watch popular. One article about Stanislas Wawrinka and his Audemars Piguet regularly tops the most viewed list whenever the Swiss player is doing well in a major tennis tournament. The popularity of the world’s number one tennis player in 2015, Novak Djokovic, and his association with Seiko probably explains why the brand’s innovative Astron GPS Solar made the podium of the most view watches on WorldTempus this year.
The remainer of our top 5 is made up of watches whose popularity was derived from the fact that they were among the prizes up for grabs in the monthly WorldTempus competition. The Emile Chouriet Historical Heritier that was offered in our November competition came out ahead of the Eberhard Tazio Nuvolari Gold Car collection that was won in our June competition.
