MING 51.01 Halo (Pre-order)

This is a pre-order with delivery expected December 2026 through Q1 2027.

21st Century Dress Watch

MING’s whole identity is built on making things glow, lume-filled indices and color-shifting dials are the brand’s signature move. The 51.01 Halo engraves its hour indices the same way every other MING does, then fills them with 5N-colored lacquer instead, skipping the glow entirely. It’s a small decision with a specific reason: a dress watch doesn’t need to be read across a dark room, it needs to read correctly next to a dinner jacket.

The case makes a similar kind of restrained choice, just through metallurgy instead of lacquer. It’s titanium, not gold, heated in a vacuum chamber to 1,200°C until its crystalline grain structure grows larger, then acid-etched to expose that texture at the surface. Only after that does a 5N coating go on, giving it a warm color that has nothing to do with the texture underneath. The grain is real and comes from the titanium itself. The color is a finish applied on top of it.

Key Details

• Movement: Manufacture La Joux-Perret for MING Calibre 7380.M1, manual winding, 21 jewels, 3Hz (21,600vph), approximately 90-hour power reserve
• Finishing: custom skeletonized bridges with matte anthracite coating and hand-finished anglage over a matte black-coated mainplate, MING spoke pattern on the ratchet and barrel wheels
• Functions: hours, minutes
• Dial: black lacquered “opaline” dial, polished center with circular-brushed periphery
• Crystal: box-shaped top sapphire with hour indices engraved and filled with 5N-colored lacquer instead of lume, flat sapphire caseback, both with double-sided anti-reflective coating
  
• Strap: black goat leather by Jean Rousseau Paris, 20mm curved quick-release spring bars, 5N-coated crystallized titanium flying-blade tuck buckle with micro-adjustment
• Limited edition: 150 pieces
• Warranty: 2-year limited warranty against mechanical and manufacturing defects

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