Most watch dials are engineered to resist time; this one is meant to register it. The MING 37.06 Royal Selangor gives the independent watchmaker’s titanium two-hander a dial rarely encountered in modern watchmaking.
Limited to 88 pieces, the collaboration combines MING’s contemporary 37-series architecture with Royal Selangor’s long-established pewter craft—and brings final assembly home to Kuala Lumpur.
Royal Selangor produced the hand-hammered dial from pewter, a tin-based alloy strengthened with small amounts of copper and antimony. Its irregular surface changes character as it catches the light, while the metal resists tarnishing and corrosion and develops a soft patina over time.
Rather than interrupt that texture with applied indices, MING engraved the hour track into the underside of the domed sapphire crystal and filled it with Super-LumiNova X1. Luminous hands appear to float above the dial.
The all-brushed grade 2 titanium case measures 38mm in diameter, 11.05mm thick, and 44.73mm from lug to lug. It has 100 meters of water resistance and weighs 35.9 grams without its strap. A sapphire caseback reveals the automatic Sellita for MING SW300.M1, which provides approximately 50 hours of power reserve and features skeletonized, rhodium-plated bridges over an anthracite-coated baseplate. Recent titanium watches have emphasized ruggedness; this one uses the metal to keep an expressive dial from feeling heavy.
A blue-gray Jean Rousseau goat-leather strap, titanium micro-adjustment buckle, and matching hammered-pewter presentation box complete the collaboration. All 88 watches were assembled in Kuala Lumpur, marking MING’s first locally assembled full production run.
