Independent watchmaker Ming is continuing its mission to bring excitement and discovery to watch enthusiasts with news of its 20.01 Series 3 collection emerging from its Special Projects Cave in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Ming Theim, designer, photographer and business strategist for the brand, focuses on creating watches that play with light, form and color.
“Layering and interaction with light leads to visual balance and legibility; tactility and physical balance begets wearability. Our pieces dynamically reflect their environment, rewarding careful observation, and give customers the pleasure of continually discovering a new side to their watches,” he says.
Ming’s Special Projects Cave is the R&D heart of the company and has combined two important design and engineering elements in its 20.01 Series 3 including a glowing dial fused with borosilicate glass and the use of an Agenhor Agengraphe movement.
Aghenhor is an independent manufacturer of complicated movements. It is partly owned by MELB Luxe, the parent company of H. Moser & Cie, which also uses Agenhor movements in several of its watches.
Ming plays with light across the Series 3 dial with 600 apertures in a cake of borosilicate that are laser cut in a spiralling circular pattern from the centre of the dial.
Each void is hand-filled with liquid Super-LumiNova X1 that makes the watch glow with a green-blue light after dark.
Ming’s 20.01 Series 3 comes in a 41.5mm x 14.2mm rose gold and titanium case housing an AgenGraphe by Agenhor chronograph movement that has a central chronograph core, Agenhor’s proprietary horizontal clutch mechanism, instantaneous jumping minutes and a proprietary regulation mechanism.
The hand-would movement, on show via an exhibition case back, is decorated with rose gold coated bridges and plates and has a 55 hour power reserve.
The watch is sold on a goat leather strap by Jean Rosseau Paris and priced at CHF 43,500.
Only 20 are being made, with first deliveries expected in October.