Nafi Thiam Watch Collection - Every Watch the Belgian Heptathlete Has Been Spotted Wearing
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Introduction to Nafi Thiam
Nafi Thiam is a Belgian track and field athlete widely regarded as one of the greatest heptathletes of her generation. Born in 1994 in Namur, she burst onto the international scene with a world record-breaking performance at the 2016 Götzis Hypomeeting and went on to claim back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the heptathlon at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games. She has also collected multiple World Championship and European Championship titles, cementing her place at the very top of combined events athletics. Known for her composure under pressure and her technical precision across all seven disciplines — from the 100m hurdles to the javelin — Thiam is as close to a complete athlete as the sport produces.
The Nafi Thiam watch collection, as documented through public sightings, centers on her partnership with Richard Mille, the Swiss-based manufacture that has built its reputation on high-performance, technically complex watches favored by elite athletes and racing drivers. Thiam has been spotted wearing the Richard Mille RM 07-04, a 30mm piece machined from green Quartz TPT — a proprietary composite constructed from layered silica filaments — making it one of the few watches in the Richard Mille catalog designed from the ground up as a women's sports watch rather than adapted from an existing men's model. The choice is deliberate and fitting: the RM 07-04 is built to withstand the kind of physical punishment that competitive athletics demands, not simply to look the part.
What the collection reflects, at least from what has been documented publicly, is a preference for function-forward horology with no compromise on technical credibility. Richard Mille's manufacturing philosophy — lightweight cases, shock-resistant movements, materials borrowed from motorsport and aerospace — aligns naturally with the demands of an athlete who trains and competes at the highest level. The RM 07-04 sighting is notable precisely because it was not a red-carpet moment; it placed the watch in its intended context, on the wrist of someone whose career makes a genuine case for why the engineering behind it matters.
Nafi Thiam Spotted Wearing Richard Mille RM 07-04 in Green Quartz TPT
Inserted 25/03/2023
The RM 07-04 marks a genuine first for Richard Mille: a sports watch engineered specifically for women, not a scaled-down men's piece. Its green Quartz TPT case — a material built from silica filaments infused with quartz and pressed under extreme heat — delivers exceptional rigidity at a featherweight 30mm footprint, complemented by a pink inner bezel and matching strap. At the centre is the new CRMA 8 calibre, an automatic movement developed in-house. Belgian heptathlon champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Nafi Thiam, a Richard Mille ambassador, was recently seen wearing the piece.
