Boxer, Influencer & Entrepreneur
Jake Paul's Richard Mille RM 11-03: The Problem Child's $370K Flyback Chronograph
Vine star. Disney Channel actor. Professional boxer. Co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions. The man who pulled 65 million simultaneous Netflix viewers to watch him beat Mike Tyson. Jake Paul is many things — and the Richard Mille RM 11-03 Flyback Chronograph on his wrist is exactly the watch for someone who has spent his entire career making people underestimate him, then making them watch anyway.
| Jake Paul — Richard Mille RM 11-03. Source: @kaitrumpgolfer / Instagram |
The RM 11-03 — tonneau case, skeletonised movement, flyback chronograph |
Jake Joseph Paul was born January 17, 1997, in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Westlake, a suburb on Lake Erie's south shore. He and his older brother Logan began posting videos online in their early teens — Jake on Vine in 2013, accumulating 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views before the platform shut down. He launched his YouTube channel in 2014, built it to over 20 million subscribers on a diet of pranks, stunts, and the kind of content that reliably generates parental concern, and was ranked by Forbes as one of the highest-paid YouTube creators of the 2010s.
In 2016 he landed a role on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark — where his co-star was a then-unknown Olivia Rodrigo — playing Dirk Mann, a fictional social media star who was essentially Jake Paul playing himself. Disney fired him midway through the second season after his real-world antics became a liability for the family-oriented network, including jumping on a news van and burning furniture in a pool at his Team 10 house in Los Angeles. In a 2024 interview, Paul reflected: "I don't think I was that talented of an actor. I could play 'the bro.' I needed probably four or five more years of acting experience. I guess I made the decision to stick with my bread and butter, which was social media."
Boxing was the unexpected pivot. He had an amateur match against YouTuber Deji Olatunji in 2018 and turned professional in January 2020, stopping AnEsonGib in the first round. The narrative of "YouTuber boxes" attracted simultaneous mockery and massive pay-per-view numbers. He stopped former NBA player Nate Robinson in two rounds. He stopped former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley twice — once in eight rounds by decision, once by knockout in the rematch. He stopped former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva. The opponents escalated. So did the scrutiny — and the revenue.
"65 million people watched him beat Mike Tyson live on Netflix — the biggest boxing gate in US history outside Las Vegas. Whatever you think of Jake Paul, the numbers have stopped being a joke."
Timepiece
Richard Mille RM 11-03 Automatic Flyback Chronograph
Richard Mille was founded in 2001 by Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat with a single, deliberately provocative ambition: to build the most technically advanced wristwatch possible, using materials and manufacturing methods borrowed from Formula 1 and aerospace, and charge accordingly. The brand's watches are immediately recognisable — tonneau-shaped cases assembled with spline screws, skeletonised dials that expose the full movement, and a material vocabulary that includes grade 5 titanium, Carbon TPT, Quartz TPT, and sapphire crystal cases — and uncompromisingly expensive. There is no entry-level Richard Mille. Every model starts in six figures.
The RM 11-03, introduced in 2017 as the successor to the RM 011 that had been in production since 2007, is the brand's automatic flyback chronograph with annual calendar. The large three-part tonneau case measures 49.94mm × 44.50mm × 16.15mm — the dimensions of a serious sports watch — and is available in titanium, red gold, white gold, or specialist materials including Carbon TPT and ceramic. The entire mechanism is visible through front and rear sapphire crystal. The RMAC3 calibre inside features a grade 5 titanium baseplate and bridges, a variable-geometry rotor that adjusts winding efficiency to the wearer's activity level, and dual barrels providing a 55-hour power reserve. The flyback function allows the chronograph to be reset and restarted with a single pusher stroke — no stop, reset, restart sequence required. Motorsport details appear throughout: the crown is shaped like a competition wheel rim, and the pushers echo the grooved texture of racing pedals. Titanium versions retail around $115,000–$370,000 depending on specification; rose gold and special-edition variants push considerably higher.
| Case | 49.94 × 44.50 × 16.15mm — titanium, gold, Carbon TPT, or ceramic |
| Movement | RMAC3 — skeletonised automatic, 68 jewels, 28,800 vph, 55-hour power reserve |
| Flyback Chronograph | Instant reset on single stroke — 60-min countdown at 9, 12-hour totaliser |
| Calendar | Annual — oversize date at 12, month indicator at 4–5 o'clock |
| Rotor | Variable-geometry — adjusts winding rate to activity level |
| Retail | From ~$115,000 (titanium) — special editions and gold to $770,000+ |
The Business Behind the Boxer
In 2021, Paul co-founded Most Valuable Promotions with adviser Nakisa Bidarian — and it quickly became a legitimate force in the sport. MVP's first major co-promotion, the Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano fight in 2022, was the first women's boxing match to headline Madison Square Garden, won Sports Illustrated's Fight of the Year, and was called by Reuters the "biggest women's fight of all time." MVP went on to sign Amanda Serrano as its anchor fighter and began developing a full promotional roster.
The November 2024 fight against Mike Tyson — promoted by MVP in partnership with Netflix — became the biggest boxing gate in US history outside of Las Vegas. Paul won by unanimous decision (80–72, 79–73, 79–73) in front of 65 million simultaneous viewers, earning an estimated $40 million from the fight alone. His June 2025 victory over former WBC middleweight champion Julio César Chávez Jr. earned him a WBA cruiserweight ranking of #14, making him eligible to challenge for a world title — a legitimacy milestone that would have seemed absurd five years earlier. The fight business earned Paul over $80 million across his professional career to that point.
In December 2025, in a fight billed as "Judgment Day" and broadcast on Netflix from Miami, Paul faced former two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Joshua stopped him in the sixth round, breaking Paul's jaw — requiring two titanium plates in surgery. The loss was Paul's first stoppage defeat. His record sits at 12–2 with seven knockouts. He posted on Instagram from recovery: "great experience. i love this sport. time to rest recover and return to cruiserweight."
Why Richard Mille — and Why the RM 11-03
Richard Mille is the watch brand most associated with athletes who combine extreme physical performance with extreme wealth — Rafael Nadal, Bubba Watson, Felipe Massa, Pharrell Williams, and yes, Tom Brady, whose RM 11-03 was among the pieces he consigned to his celebrated GOAT Collection Sotheby's auction in December 2024. The brand doesn't court old money or institutional prestige. It courts people who are doing things now, loudly, at the edge of what their field allows. Jake Paul is precisely that kind of figure.
The RM 11-03 is, in many ways, the brand's everyman grand complication — if a $370,000 flyback chronograph can be called that. It is the watch a person wears when they have built something from nothing, when they understand that the movement inside the case costs as much as it does because of the materials and engineering required to survive what their life puts it through, and when they are comfortable being entirely visible. The skeletonised dial hides nothing. Everything is on display. On the wrist of a man who has been building his entire public life on exactly that principle since he was sixteen years old, it fits.
And at Spot.Watch — that's always worth noticing.
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