Gold-colored metal does not always tell the whole material story. The new MING 51.01 Halo starts with grade-5 titanium, then exposes a crystalline pattern beneath its warm 5N coating.
The treatment changes the character of a newly designed case rather than merely recoloring an existing model. Controlled heating and cooling enlarge the titanium’s grains, and etching reveals their irregular boundaries. At 37mm across and 8mm thick, with a 43mm lug-to-lug span, the result brings an unusually textured surface to compact dress-watch proportions.
The black lacquer dial has a polished center and circular-brushed outer area. Hour markers sit in engravings on the box-shaped sapphire crystal, filled with matching gold-toned lacquer. They appear above the dial instead of occupying its surface, while a new, slender handset keeps the display to hours and minutes.
The manually wound La Joux-Perret 7380.M1 supplies approximately 90 hours of power reserve. Skeletonized anthracite bridges and a black baseplate continue the restrained palette through the sapphire back. A black goat-leather strap from Jean Rousseau ends in a matching titanium buckle with micro-adjustment.
MING has announced an upcoming 150-piece edition with a listed delivery window of four to eight weeks. The small scale and two-hand display leave the material treatment room to speak.
