The Dive Watch Refined & Reconsidered

Connoisseurs love sushi, and the stomachs of the MING team are no exception: the 37.09 Bluefin, recently awarded the Sports Watch Prize at GPHG 2024, is proof of this. To celebrate the win, MING has decided to serve a portion of tuna’s more exotic oceanmate in the form of the 37.09 Uni.

Sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, has morphed from a prosaic necessity into a highly sought after delicacy. It also remains a largely acquired taste – it’s briny, sweet, and a little funky with a blast of umami that contrasts with its buttery softness. It is usually served in a gunkan-maki – over rice, wrapped in seaweed to keep it all together – and seasonings are minimal to give center stage to the sweetness of the uni.

Those who’ve seen a sea urchin in the wild or at the market will know it’s best thought of as durable: it has a hard black shell, toxic spines, and guards its glistening orange treasures jealously. Though they are primarily reliant on currents to help them move, they’ve been found all over the world from the surface to the deep hadalpelagic zone below 6000m. Let’s just say they are deep divers. Like the sea urchin, MING's 37.09 Uni is a black-DLC armored dive watch with orange highlights, and an inspiration or two from its namesake.

Like the Bluefin, it has a rotating sapphire timing dial that can be operated underwater.
The Uni introduces a new design for the hour indices, carries an abundance of Super-
LumiNova on the dial, top crystal and hands, and is the first MING to have orange emission Super-LumiNova – to echo its namesake. Ensuring optimal reliability is an automatic Sellita for MING SW300.M1 in a unique finish.

As any doctor will tell you, you can have too much uni and so we’re rationing ourselves to a limited portion – there will be 150 of the 37.09 Unis available for 2025.

Key Details

Case: 316L Stainless Steel with a polished-brushed finish, DLC Coated, 38mm diameter, 12.8mm thickness, 20mm lug width, 44.5mm lug-to-lug, Domed sapphire crystals front and rear, with double-sided antireflective coating, Super-LumiNova X1 indices inside top crystal, and on sapphire dial
Hands: Super-LumiNova X1 coated hands
Water Resistance: 600m with additional safety factor
Movement: Sellita for MING SW300.M1, Anthracite skeletonised bridges, and customised rotor, hacking seconds, Self winding with ~45h power reserve at full wind
Functions: Hours, Minutes, Seconds. Internal 60-click timer scale on unidirectional rotating dial, via crown at 4.
Strap: 20x18mm, Black FKM Rubber and fitted with tuck buckle, with built in microadjustment
Limitation: 150 in 2025

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