Ming Gmt Kyoto 22.01. Full set.
Basic Info
Listing code : M7A969
Brand : Ming
Reference number : 22.01
Movement : Automatic
Case material : Steel
Bracelet material : Leather
Year of production : 2022
Condition : Used (Very good)
Scope of delivery : Original box, original papers
Gender : Men's watch/Unisex
Location : United Kingdom, GU14 0LQ
Price : 2,100
Availability : Item is in stock
Caliber
Movement : Automatic
Case
Case material : Steel
Case diameter : 38 x 43.9 mm
Dial : Grey
Bracelet/strap
Bracelet material : Leather
Bracelet color : Green
Offered for sale is this rather lovely Ming Kyoto GMT 22.01. If you’ve made it to this listing then hopefully you know all about Ming watches. I’m a big fan and purchased this to go alongside another Ming watch I already own. I’ve had it about six months and I bought it unworn. And while I love it, I just don’t wear it enough and I’m shrinking my collection so could use the space in my box.
It’s in fabulous condition, and comes with the complete set of box and papers. It’s on the original leather strap which shows some marks commensurate with light wear. The watch itself is in excellent condition; any marks are practically invisible.
Apart from the fantastic and original design cues from Ming, I particularly love the lume and the way the light can play with the crystal and its coating to create different visual effects. I could wax lyrical here but others have done so already so I will quote heavily from a review on Hodinkee instead.
“The 22.01 GMT has a 38mm x 10.7mm titanium case, and there's no spacer ring (the case has been milled to fit the movement exactly). Water resistance is 100 meters, and the movement is the caliber 330.M2, based on the Sellita SW330-2, with a 24-hour second time zone hand, settable at the second crown position in one-hour increments.
The dials have a sapphire overlay over the base metal, which produces a layering effect as the angle of light shifts, and the GMT chapter ring is on top of the sapphire layer. Finally, the hour indexes are applied to the underside of the crystal, in HyCeram X1 (a composite of Super-LumiNova and ceramic).
Ming watches are named for the company founder, Ming Thein, and I think Ming, and Ming, are making some of the most interesting timepieces in independent horology today (or in horology period, actually).
Since the launch of the 17.01 the variety in pricing, design, and complications has broadened enormously but one thing that all of the watches have in common is meticulous attention to detail, and to every detail. There is no particular reason to mill out the inside of the case so that you don't need to use a movement spacer ring – the latter provides a perfectly good solution to securing the movement. But making sure that the movement and case fit together organically is a detail that just somehow feels more satisfying and in paying attention to things both seen and unseen, Horloger Ming produces watches that, unlike many things, become more satisfying the more you know about them.
The design language is like everything else Ming Thein's ever done, highly specific in every element and the design language isn't for everyone but it's not intended to be. It's a very singular vision but taken on its own terms it's a very internally consistent one, and again, in watch design that's unusual. Watch design can sometimes seem a very narrow enterprise but it reminds me of something that a character says about sonnets in the novel, A Wrinkle In Time – that the structure is very rigidly prescribed, but within that structure you can say whatever you want. Watches are constrained by many things and attempts to break the long-established molds can seem affected or forced, but the design language and technical features of the 22.01 GMT are neither and instead, exist on a continuum that embraces both. That that language and those features continue to evolve in every new Ming watch, is exciting – it's far from easy to keep breaking new ground while staying grounded in the past. Tradition is great; inventing your own is even better.
The Ming 22.01 GMT: Case, 38mm x 10.7mm, grade 5 titanium with sapphire caseback, lug to lug distance 43.9mm. Concave bezel with mixed brushed and polished finish. Top sapphire, double AR coating with laser-etched indexes filled with HyCeram X1. 100 meter water resistant.
Dial, composite in 3 parts with grained finish in grey-green (Kyoto) or cyan-gold (Gilt) with matching GMT hands. Hour and minute hands coated with Super-LumiNova X1
Movement, cal. 330.M2, based on Sellita SW3302, with hours and minutes, independently adjustable 24-hour hand; custom finish and rotor, running at 28,800 vph in 25 jewels.
Strap, barenia leather by Jean Rousseau Paris”
If the description above doesn’t make you love it by now, nothing will. :-)
Please enquire if you have any questions. I have sold several pieces on Chrono24 before so do please ask if you would like to know more about the process.
I’m UK based and would prefer to ship to the UK but will consider overseas transactions but the buyer will need to accept and understand any custom charges that are incurred.
Thank you for looking.
