MING 37.02 Minimalist (In-stock - Ships Now)

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The Essence of MING

The 37.02 Minimalist is MING's first watch to be designed, engineered and production managed internally at their new Swiss facility in La Chaux de Fonds. The work to increasingly internalize the engineering and production began nearly two years ago and is motivated by the brand's desire to continually innovate and deliver better value while allowing us more control over the supply chain and achieving better lead times.

More importantly, expanding MING's footprint enables more innovation and the luminous signature of the 37.02 Minimalist is a great example of this. For years, Ming Thein has wanted to develop white emission luminous material and despite many attempts with external suppliers, this remained an elusive goal. With the 37.02 Minimalist, MING is proud to announce that they have finally achieved this in-house and now have a proprietary white emission luminous material – MING Polar White.

MING Polar White has broad spectrum emission and therefore is one of the very few (if not the only) luminous material to truly glow white instead of being tinted. The 37.02 Minimalist is the first of several watches to feature MING Polar White.

Horolger MING chose the 37.02 Minimalist as the first model to develop under the new MING as it is a philosophical successor to the 17.01 and 27.01, both of which marked previous milestones for the brand. It represents the current distillation of what they believe an essential, and reductivist watch should be. It feels just as at home on a leather strap as it does on the moulded rubber strap, under a suit cuff or at the beach.

It is self-winding, always ready to go, quick to set, and can be dressed up or down for any occasion. It carries the same identifiable design elements and visual impact of any of the watches in the MING lineup yet remains discreet enough to fly under the radar should the situation call for it.

The dial is luminous and stylized in the dynamic way only sapphire can do; it can invert, glow, reflect seemingly floating markers, or suck light into a black hole depending on the angle. It is legible but not uniformly boring; balanced but not symmetric. All dial markings are in fact laser cut channels in the sapphire dial that are then liquid filled with the brand's proprietary MING Polar White. MING has retained the blue emission Super-LumiNova X1 on the distinctive handset for visual contrast and increased legibility.

Playing off the gloss of the dial is MING's continually refined and improved 37-series case in stainless steel, sized at 38x11mm. It has a narrow bezel and mixed polished-brushed case finishes to make it visually larger and thinner than the dimensions suggest, yet remains comfortable to wear for a wide range of wrist sizes. An oversized crown and double gaskets make for easy winding and setting, as well as 100m of water resistance. It is completed by MING's new FKM rubber strap which is moulded with a curve that naturally follows the wrist for maximum comfort.

It is worth noting that due to a regulation technicality, watches produced by Horologer Ming SA in Switzerland are not eligible for a ‘Swiss Made’ mark. A qualifying requirement is that design and engineering be completed in Switzerland, but Ming Thein (MT) now leads this directly in Kuala Lumpur for greater agility and innovation. Nevertheless, component sourcing remains unchanged, and our watches are still assembled in Switzerland.

Key Details

• Case: 316L Stainless Steel with a polished-brushed finish, 38mm diameter, 20mm lug width, 11mm thickness, 44.5mm lug-to-lug, Domed sapphire crystals with double-sided AR coating
  
• Water Resistance: 100m
• Movement: Sellita for MING SW300.M1, Anthracite skeletonised bridges, and customised rotor, Self winding with ~45h power reserve at full wind
  
• Dial: Sapphire dial inset with liquid filled MING Polar White, Super-LumiNova X1 coated hands
  
• Functions: Hours, Minutes.
  
• Strap: 20x18mm, Black FKM Rubber and fitted with tuck buckle, with built in microadjustment
  

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