Richard Mille has welcomed Johannes Høsflot Klæbo to its athlete family, pairing the Norwegian cross-country skiing phenomenon with the RM 67-02 Automatic Extra-Flat.
The partnership brings one of winter sport’s most dominant athletes into a stable already closely associated with high-performance competition, lightweight watchmaking and elite physical discipline.
Klæbo’s Record Makes the Partnership Easy to Understand
At 29, Klæbo has built a résumé that would define an entire era of cross-country skiing.
He became the youngest male Olympic champion in the sport at PyeongChang 2018 and has since grown into one of Norway’s defining winter athletes.
His record now includes 11 Olympic gold medals, including six at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games, along with 15 World Championship gold medals, five overall Tour de Ski victories, six World Cup crystal globes and 113 individual World Cup wins.
That breadth matters because Klæbo is not simply a sprint specialist with a fast finish; he has become equally dangerous across sprint and distance formats.
The Klæbo Sprint Meets Richard Mille’s Performance Language
Klæbo’s racing identity is built around timing, control and a late burst of acceleration that has become known as the “Klæbo sprint.”
It is a technique that depends on conserving enough energy to attack at precisely the right moment, then converting endurance into decisive speed when the race is at its most unforgiving.
That makes him a natural fit for Richard Mille, a brand that has long used athletes not as passive ambassadors but as real-world extensions of its engineering culture.
The connection was encouraged by Johannes Thingnes Bø, the Norwegian biathlon legend and long-time Richard Mille partner, who urged the brand to meet Klæbo after seeing the same combination of discipline, explosiveness and competitive intelligence.
RM 67-02 Automatic Extra-Flat on the Wrist
Klæbo wears the RM 67-02 Automatic Extra-Flat, one of Richard Mille’s sport-focused models and a watch that suits an athlete accustomed to counting every gram of equipment and every marginal gain in training.
The appeal here is not just visual; Klæbo has described the watch as thin, smooth and light enough that it nearly disappears on the wrist.
That sensation is central to the watch’s role in this partnership, because cross-country skiing is a sport where comfort, movement and efficiency are not abstract ideas.
The RM 67-02’s extra-flat automatic construction gives the piece a leaner profile than many high-complication sports watches, while still carrying the unmistakably technical Richard Mille character.
A Watch Collector Since His Teens
Klæbo’s interest in watches began when he was 14, which gives the partnership more texture than a routine athlete signing.
For a competitor whose training is described as meticulous, data-driven and deeply disciplined, the appeal of a technical watch brand is easy to see.
No dedicated Klæbo limited edition has been introduced with the announcement, so the focus remains on the athlete, the RM 67-02 and the shared performance vocabulary between skier and watchmaker.
For Richard Mille, Klæbo extends the brand’s reach deeper into winter sport; for collectors, the pairing reinforces the RM 67-02 as one of the marque’s clearest expressions of lightness, athletic utility and modern sports-watch design.
