Richard took the decision last night (Sunday) that there would be no live photos and no photos on the stand this year. I am in complete agreement. In the last few months an ever increasing number of fakes have been seen being sold on the internet and the standard of the fakes has reached a point that measures have to be taken. The problem reached a peak with the arrival in the Boutique in Paris of an ‘all-black’ skull RM052 that was a fake. It was a fake on two counts. First, no ‘all-black’ skull exists in the Richard Mille line up. There has been a gold skull/black case and a black skull/gold case, but no ‘all-black’. Second, the movement was not a true tourbillon and hence on closer inspection was obviously fake. Nonetheless, this was serious. In the words of a Richard Mille spokesperson, the case was very close to the mark.