This $35 sleek Casio is the easiest way to slim your wrist

Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille is known for its elite fan base (including big players like Rafael Nadal and JayZ) as well as for its highly handcrafted timepieces at exorbitant prices. Its latest stunner is the 222 Ferrari RM1UP, which is just 1.75mm thick - just a little more than two credit cards stacked on top of each other - which made history when it relegated this summer to the title. way is the thinnest mechanical watch ever produced. With a limited run of 15 pieces and reportedly priced at $1.9 million, the Ferrari RM1UP has surpassed a host of previous title contenders, from the 22 Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept (2.mm thick, $44,) at this year's BULGARI Octo. Finissimo Ultra (1.8mm thick, $45,). As impressive as these coins are, however, they all have two things in common: limited quantities and sky-high prices. Good news? Casio's A7W1ACF digital watch is nearly as thin as those watches and costs just $34, putting an ultra-thin watch within everyone's reach.

The race for thinner and thinner watches has increased in recent years, but has spanned more than a century, starting in 193 when Edmond Jaeger (co-founder of the Swiss luxury watch brand) JaegerLeCoultre) invents Caliber 145, the finest movement watch. the world has seen. Like athletes and yacht owners, watchmakers are competitive people and they love nothing more than doing something infinitely better than their competition. After the launch of Caliber 145, the brightest minds in the industry immediately started dreaming up new designs for increasingly slimmer movements and movements, and they haven't stopped since. Some 12 years later, Richard Mille's Ferrari RM1UP is leading the way, but, the watchmakers are on their way, a new rival not far off.