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Ming
Ref. MING 18.01 6.39 Concept: Diver's watch MING 20.01 S1 Concept: Chronograph MING 27.02 Concept: Time only
A set of 3 attractive prototype wristwatches: Diver's, Chronograph and Time only
- 估價
- CHF40,000 - 80,000€37,100 - 74,100$43,600 - 87,200
CHF81,900
拍品詳情
- 製造商
- Ming
- 年份
- 2020
- 型號
- MING 18.01 6.39 Concept: Diver's watch MING 20.01 S1 Concept: Chronograph MING 27.02 Concept: Time only
- 錶殼號碼
- MING 18.01 6.39 Concept: P000000 MING 20.01 S1 Concept: P000995 MING 27.02 Concept: P001675
- 材料
- MING 18.01 6.39 Concept: Stainless Steel MING 20.01 S1 Concept: Titanium MING 27.02 Concept: Stainless steel
- 機芯
- MING 18.01 6.39 Concept: Automatic, cal ETA 2824-2 Top Grade MING 20.01 S1 Concept: Manual, cal. Agengraphe MING 27.02 Concept: Manual, ETA 7001
- 錶帶/ 錶鏈
- Leather
- 錶扣
- Stainless steel pin buckles
- 尺寸
- MING 18.01 6.39 Concept: 40mm Diameter MING 20.01 S1 Concept: 41.5mm Diameter MING 27.02 Concept: 38mm Diameter
- 簽名
- Case, dial, movement and buckle signed
- 配件
- Accompanied by a large travelling case and 3 individual wood boxes and travel pouches
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圖錄文章
MING is an incredibly creative micro brand whose first watch was launched in 2017 and has ever since hit a chord with collectors. Making only a handful of watches in small series each model is sold out within minutes of being released.
The brand takes the name of one of its founders and core drivers: Ming Thein, a physicist by training. and a world renown photographer. A long time watch collector he decided that he wanted to create his own brand and offer watch impeccably made but at a very competitive price point.
We are delighted to offer a unique set of three prototypes of watches that were never marketed and that represent the past, present and future of MING, they show where their thinking originated and where it will go.
Past: MING 18.01 6.39 Concept
The present watch is one of the three designs prototyped along the path to create the brand’s first dive watch: the Abyss Concept, presented in in 2019 which gave way in 2020 for the brand’s first series production dive watch Ref 18.01 H41 which has been shortlisted in the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve 2020 for best dive watch. Whilst only 13.8mm think the present watch was tested to an impressive depth of 1000m.
Present: MING 20.01 S1 Concept
The present watch is a timepiece that doesn’t exist within the MING collection…yet: a chronograph. Using Agenhor’s groundbreaking Agengraphe caliber modified to make it manual winding and no longer automatic. It features four central hands, two for time telling and two for the chronograph functions: the seconds and minutes totalisers. The incredible architecture of the movement is enhanced by its DLC finish.
This chronograph was to be launched in early 2020 but Covid 19 changed the plans
Future: MING 27.02 Concept
This watch is an evolution of the brand’s extra slim model 27.01 launched in early 2020. The apparent simplicity of the watch should not fool you, subtle yet important details create a very interesting visual layering, including the a guilloche ring intelligently placed underneath the sapphire dial, which transitions from completely opaque into completely transparent, depending on the lighting.
The brand takes the name of one of its founders and core drivers: Ming Thein, a physicist by training. and a world renown photographer. A long time watch collector he decided that he wanted to create his own brand and offer watch impeccably made but at a very competitive price point.
We are delighted to offer a unique set of three prototypes of watches that were never marketed and that represent the past, present and future of MING, they show where their thinking originated and where it will go.
Past: MING 18.01 6.39 Concept
The present watch is one of the three designs prototyped along the path to create the brand’s first dive watch: the Abyss Concept, presented in in 2019 which gave way in 2020 for the brand’s first series production dive watch Ref 18.01 H41 which has been shortlisted in the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve 2020 for best dive watch. Whilst only 13.8mm think the present watch was tested to an impressive depth of 1000m.
Present: MING 20.01 S1 Concept
The present watch is a timepiece that doesn’t exist within the MING collection…yet: a chronograph. Using Agenhor’s groundbreaking Agengraphe caliber modified to make it manual winding and no longer automatic. It features four central hands, two for time telling and two for the chronograph functions: the seconds and minutes totalisers. The incredible architecture of the movement is enhanced by its DLC finish.
This chronograph was to be launched in early 2020 but Covid 19 changed the plans
Future: MING 27.02 Concept
This watch is an evolution of the brand’s extra slim model 27.01 launched in early 2020. The apparent simplicity of the watch should not fool you, subtle yet important details create a very interesting visual layering, including the a guilloche ring intelligently placed underneath the sapphire dial, which transitions from completely opaque into completely transparent, depending on the lighting.
Ming
Malaysian | 1986Ming Thein is the vision behind MING: he has a diverse background that bridges both the creative and corporate, with more than 10 years in strategy and finance and 20 years as a photographer, with seven as a full time professional. Ming was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1986, educated in Australia, New Zealand, and finally graduated with a masters’ degree in theoretical physics from Balliol College, Oxford at the age of 16.
Somewhere during the mechanical portions of his degree, he contracted the watch bug made worse by a Lange 1815 graduation gift from his parents. It would follow through his early career at KPMG and The Boston Consulting Group, where the generosity of online collector communities allowed him access to their events and watches. His contributions to the community were driven by knowledge (including numerous attempts at movement design) and photography: capturing a personal interpretation of a watch, Ming in a way made them his own and shared a different vision with the collector’s community
瀏覽製造者Somewhere during the mechanical portions of his degree, he contracted the watch bug made worse by a Lange 1815 graduation gift from his parents. It would follow through his early career at KPMG and The Boston Consulting Group, where the generosity of online collector communities allowed him access to their events and watches. His contributions to the community were driven by knowledge (including numerous attempts at movement design) and photography: capturing a personal interpretation of a watch, Ming in a way made them his own and shared a different vision with the collector’s community