MING 29.01 Dubai Edition

By popular demand, and to commemorate its first participation in a major industry event – MING proudly presents the 29.01 Dubai Edition, a special worldtimer for Arabic speaking (and reading) collectors with a few small but significant tweaks.

Evolving the worldtimer

We’ve made a couple of design and functional tweaks to differentiate this new edition of the 29.01 from its sibling: firstly, the debut of a rose gold finish for our second generation Schwarz-Etienne for MING ASE222 microrotor automatic, and adjustments to the city ring.

By collector request, additional cities have been added to the dial with numbers and city names now in Arabic. Furthermore, we have added a third ring to provide differentiation for the cities that accommodate daylight savings time, in addition to an offset marker to indicate time in these zones when DST is active.

29-series design principles

The watch of course follows the 29-series concept of liquidity, with an organic form and smoothly flowing lines. There is no bezel, but instead the top crystal merges into the case body with no steps and plays the role of a bezel. Continuing this idea, the dial is also seamless: cities, indices and hands appear to float at different levels over a 24-hour disc with varying brushed finishes to differentiate day/night and different indication zones on the dial.

This dial is mounted on and rotates via a peripheral ball bearing track, appearing completely seamless. We also retain our trademark inversion thanks to the use of a sapphire upper dial which carries the cities, as well as sapphire hands. Both are laser-etched and filled with HyCeram for great luminosity and night time visibility.

The 29-series case is sized at 40mm, but is visually larger due to the lack of bezel and the 34mm dial opening. Short lugs keep the watch comfortably wearable on a wide range of wrist sizes.

A deep sapphire box on the front serves as both crystal and bezel; it is bonded seamlessly to the grade 5 titanium case body. This case body carries the upper portion of the flying blade lugs that are a key feature of our second generation design language and shared with the 27-series and 20-series. Here they are polished and with an interlocking groove that keys into the caseback. This is secured with four Torx screws and also appears seamless from the underside. A polished top and bottom finish to the lugs contrast with the matte texture of the case sides, with dynamic sculpting continuously blending lug surfaces with case body.

Second generation movement

Premiering in the original 29.01 Worldtimer, our second-generation version of Schwarz-Etienne’s microrotor automatic gained new bridge architecture to make it even more open and transparent, with many unique features that bring it in line with our latest design language. The barrel is fully skeletonized and more open than before for easier determination of state of wind; plates and bridges are now 5N rose gold coated with diamond cut anglage; the rotor guard is a whimsical four-level ‘staircase’ with anglage, and the rotor itself is a little larger with a new organic shape for higher winding efficiency. It has a new mounting system and ceramic ball bearings to improve winding efficiency and remains made of tungsten for density.

And finally...

We've had a lot of requests for alligator or crocodile straps; unfortunately due to CITES regulations and other concerns this has been impossible. We have, however, been working on finding a material as close to the look and feel of these hides as possible: and the 29.01 Dubai Edition debuts our Elastogator straps, with the upper portion made of a 100% rubberbased material and the lining from Alcantara (itself a form of microfiber). This makes for a 100% animal-free strap, which is also available separately in other colours and sizes for our other watches.

Pricing and deliveries

The MING 29.01 Dubai Edition will be produced in an edition of 25 pieces and priced at CHF 22,000. It will be available at www.ming.watch from 1PM GMT on 16 November 2023, with a 50% deposit for order confirmation and the balance on delivery – which is expected to begin Q3-2024.

Technical specifications

MING 29.01 Dubai Edition

Limited edition of 25 pieces

Case

• Material: Grade 5 titanium
• Diameter: 40 mm
• Thickness: 11.90 mm
• Polished and blasted ‘flying blade’ interlocking lugs
• Deep box sapphire crystal front with bezel-less construction; domed rear crystal; both with double-sided antireflective coating
• Water-resistant to 50 meters
• 22mm lug width

Dial and hands

• Sapphire dial with HyCeram ceramic Super-LumiNova X1 fill
• Metallic 24h disc with Super-LumiNova X1 fill
• Sapphire hands with HyCeram ceramic Super-LumiNova X1 fill

Movement

• Schwarz-Etienne for MING Cal. ASE 222
• Diameter: 30 mm
• Thickness: 5.60 mm
• Bidirectional automatic winding via microrotor
• Number of jewels: 31
• Skeletonized barrel
• 5N rose gold coated bridges with diamond cut anglage
• Power reserve of approx. ~70h at full wind
• Movement adjusted to five positions

Functions/Indications

• Hours and minutes
• World time function with DST display
• Automatic winding via microrotor

Strap and buckle

• Black elastogator strap
• 1x additional strap of customer’s choice
• 22mm width, curved bars with quick release
• Fitted with stainless steel tuck buckle with micro adjustment

MSRP: CHF 22'000

For more information, please visit ming.watch