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Our new Head of Marketing & Communications shares a few words about watches, curiosity, and joining MING.
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Our final dispatch for 2025 - also my customary end of year moment of indulgence and gratitude for what's been, and excitement for what's to come.
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Dr Magnus Bosse takes a look at the history of the Frederic Piguet Cal. 21, its significance in watchmaking and how it came to play a role in the Project 21 and MING.
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Reflecting on 2024, I am reminded of a quote by Jhumpa Lahiri, a favourite writer of mine...
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We’re elated to announce that the 37.09 Bluefin brings home the Sports Watch Prize at this year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG)! We’re thrilled to have our efforts with the Bluefin recognised and marks the second prize for MING following the Horological Revelation Prize in 2019.
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While the AgenGraphe represents a significant turning point for chronographs this millennium, there is another chronograph movement that represents some of the best of watchmaking at the end of the last millennium.
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The lume cone was created to provide a convenient way to view the lume on our watches, without having to resort to going into the closet and turning off the lights.
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Today, we’re excited and happy to announce that we’ve taken possession of the keys to our first ever Swiss office, and welcome two new members to Team MING
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The AgenGraphe® is a turning point in the history of chronographs, which started in the early 19th century when Frenchmen Louis Moinet and Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec independently invented instruments to measure time intervals.
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Since 2020, we’ve done an end of year update, which has been an opportunity to look back on the year that’s been, the things you’ve helped us achieve, the lessons we’ve learnt and also to give you a glimpse of what we have in store for the next.
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As with any design objective to be realised on a physical object, one must first envision it, then identify suitable materials and techniques to realise, and finally test, evaluate and fine tune the whole.
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Lisa Lloyd on meeting MT and the genesis of District 2901 - an art piece that commemorates our 29.01 Worlditmer.
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A couple of weeks ago, I managed a ‘first’ – assembling a watch, from the kit of component parts provided to our watchmakers, as would be done with serial production pieces. There are a couple of important things to...
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When I took on the challenging of designing what will probably be the world’s lightest mechanical watch* - I honestly thought it would be a case of selecting the right materials and figuring out how far we could push the machining.
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There comes a time, or times, in the life of every company where we face challenges. Some serious challenges whose scope goes beyond...
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From our start (almost to the day) 5 years ago, our efforts to create watches that we really like have been met with...
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Since day one, I’ve received far too many message asking why I’m allergic to second hands and date windows – so it’s probably about time we set the record straight.
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On rare occasion, we are informed that a watch has been stolen from a customer or is otherwise missing. To ensure that a collector does not purchase a stolen watch from the secondary market and in the hopes that we can help re-unite customers with their watch, here is a register of all watches reported stolen or missing:
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Starting from the 20.11 Mosaic, we introduced a new 12 o’clock marker to replace our previously standard zero: why? A bit of a circular argument, this one.
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When we moved to the second generation design language, we wanted more distinctive hands that would be part of the instantly recognizable elements that make a MING... a MING.
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We realize not every detail is obvious at first glance, so this series is intended to provide an inside look into the thought and design process behind our creations – and yes, perhaps a sneak peak or two at the future.
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It would be an understatement to say 2021 has been a big but challenging year for us - we’ve seen significant changes in the watch market in general and MING as a company. I would like to...
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On the face of it, creating a new mosaic should be simple: draw a pattern, send it to the laser machine, put in a blank crystal, and hit the big red button. In reality, it’s (quite a bit) more complicated than that.
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Since the 17.06 Slate in 2019 - I find myself penning one of these posts after nearly each launch. Sometimes they never get published as...
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In true MING form, 2021 continues to be a year of constant change. When we presented the 27.02 in January, we also introduced...
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Today it’s my great pleasure to finally announce something we’ve been working on for a very long time: the Special Projects Cave. It might only have acquired a name in the last year, but...
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Time to close off what’s been a challenging year for all of us with a few updates and some good news.
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2020 has been a challenging and unexpected year for all of us. We had big plans, some of which we’ve presented, and some of which have been delayed, deferred or forever changed. On the bright side...
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Three years is both a long time, and not; it’s more than enough to establish a fledgling brand from the wrong part of the world, find fantastic partners, release a few (well, 18 now) models, win a golden finger, and...
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Though the 27.01 appears to be a completely new watch, look a bit closer and you’ll see the many evolutionary steps that have been taken to achieve a conceptually thin dress watch from the 17 series.
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It would be an understatement to say that the first quarter of 2020 has been a trial of unprecedented proportions for the whole world; I doubt there’s anybody who has not been impacted in some way.
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While we've addressed the challenges of production and launch logistics directly with various collectors and in bits and pieces over time, we wanted to revisit it once more and I hope I can shed some light on what happens behind the scene.
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Since the 17.01’s production ended and the final watches delivered, we get emails on an almost daily basis asking if there’s either a secret stash or if we’re planning to make them again.
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Perhaps the alternative title for this post should be “how we set pricing”: after all it’s assumed (more often than not, correctly) that watches are luxury goods with the kind of hyper inflated margins that go with it.
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The release of a new model is not something trivial for a brand like ours, and before we even decide what to greenlight from ‘the wall’ – lengthy debate and rationalization always takes place first.
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We’ve collated thoughts from each of our team members in an attempt to provide a more balanced, overall view.
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As watch enthusiasts, we’ve always been interested in heat bluing – first with steel hands and later with titanium – and we’ve discussed the possibility of using heat blued titanium in our watches several times.
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One of the earliest widespread experiments in photography - dating to the mid 1800s or earlier - was that of stereoscopy: the making of a three-dimensional image from two normal flat images but shot from a relatively offset position.
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Watch designers have two main challenges: to create something distinctive from a finite number of elements and to do it with pricing constraints.
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All of us at MING wish you a Happy New Year! We hope 2018 proves to be fruitful and fulfilling - both horologically and personally.
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In previous installments we discussed our philosophy behind design and material choices for the ‘hard’ parts of the watch - movement, dial, case, crystals etc - but left out the soft stuff.
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The 19.01 is a watch that’s all about transparency: the case is essentially nothing more than two, deep box sapphire crystals held together by a metal band that also happens to hold the strap mounting points.
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The 19.01 is not a conventional watch, nor a conventional design, and for that - it would only make sense with something other than the usual material choices.
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As a new brand, there are simultaneously a lot of choices and not enough choices when it comes to constructors. Doing something entirely yourself is of course out of the question unless you are both a trained watchmaker and have signifiant investment in...
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The 19.01 was approached concept-first, which is to say we were clear about what the design had to do - and we would make the execution work around it.
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As you can see from the teaser image in this post: our next announcement will be soon; very soon, in fact. This watch has been in the works almost in parallel with the 17.01, and will be the first piece in a flagship series that defines the pinnacle of the MING lineup.
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One of the most frequently asked questions I've received is 'how/why did you decide to start a watch brand?' - and one that is perhaps the most difficult to answer.
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Today marks the public beginning of our brand - MING - and our first watch - the 17.01.
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The lume cone was created to provide a convenient way to view the lume on our watches, without having to resort to going into the closet and turning off the lights.
read nowWhen I took on the challenging of designing what will probably be the world’s lightest mechanical watch* - I honestly thought it would be a case of selecting the right materials and figuring out how far we could push the machining.
read nowSince day one, I’ve received far too many message asking why I’m allergic to second hands and date windows – so it’s probably about time we set the record straight.
read nowStarting from the 20.11 Mosaic, we introduced a new 12 o’clock marker to replace our previously standard zero: why? A bit of a circular argument, this one.
read nowWhen we moved to the second generation design language, we wanted more distinctive hands that would be part of the instantly recognizable elements that make a MING... a MING.
read nowWe realize not every detail is obvious at first glance, so this series is intended to provide an inside look into the thought and design process behind our creations – and yes, perhaps a sneak peak or two at the future.
read nowOn the face of it, creating a new mosaic should be simple: draw a pattern, send it to the laser machine, put in a blank crystal, and hit the big red button. In reality, it’s (quite a bit) more complicated than that.
read nowThree years is both a long time, and not; it’s more than enough to establish a fledgling brand from the wrong part of the world, find fantastic partners, release a few (well, 18 now) models, win a golden finger, and...
read nowThough the 27.01 appears to be a completely new watch, look a bit closer and you’ll see the many evolutionary steps that have been taken to achieve a conceptually thin dress watch from the 17 series.
read nowThe release of a new model is not something trivial for a brand like ours, and before we even decide what to greenlight from ‘the wall’ – lengthy debate and rationalization always takes place first.
read nowWatch designers have two main challenges: to create something distinctive from a finite number of elements and to do it with pricing constraints.
read nowIn previous installments we discussed our philosophy behind design and material choices for the ‘hard’ parts of the watch - movement, dial, case, crystals etc - but left out the soft stuff.
read nowThe 19.01 is a watch that’s all about transparency: the case is essentially nothing more than two, deep box sapphire crystals held together by a metal band that also happens to hold the strap mounting points.
read nowThe 19.01 is not a conventional watch, nor a conventional design, and for that - it would only make sense with something other than the usual material choices.
read nowAs a new brand, there are simultaneously a lot of choices and not enough choices when it comes to constructors. Doing something entirely yourself is of course out of the question unless you are both a trained watchmaker and have signifiant investment in...
read nowThe 19.01 was approached concept-first, which is to say we were clear about what the design had to do - and we would make the execution work around it.
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