Journal

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Thank you, and see you next year!

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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Design

Photoessay: the birth of a case

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100 Years Of The Frederic Piguet Cal. 21

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

Reflecting on 2024,  I am reminded of a quote by Jhumpa Lahiri, a favourite writer of mine...

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Announcements

MING brings home the Sports Watch Prize!

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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The THA/LJP 5000 Monopusher for MING

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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MING celebrates a new facility in La Chaux-de-Fonds

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® for MING

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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Taking Stock of 2023

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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On The Challenges Of Realising A *Practical* Ultra-Light Watch

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 District 2901

Lisa Lloyd on meeting MT and the genesis of District 2901 - an art piece that commemorates our 29.01 Worlditmer.

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Design

Design Brief Ch 7: Finding lightness

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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Announcements

PSA: Stolen Watch Register

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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Design

Photoessay: the birth of a case

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Design

Design Brief Ch 7: Finding lightness

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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