MING LW.01 Automatic

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(Probably) the world's lightest mechanical watches ‍ Out of our Special Projects Cave and several years in the making, we're proud to present what we believe are the worlds lightest mechanical wristwatches: the MING LW.01 Manual and LW.01 Automatic. They are a featherweight 8.8 and 10.8 grams respectively and for the watch head only. The challenge ‍ We wanted to push the envelope further than we – or any other brand – has ever done. Why? Because we wanted the challenge. We set ourselves some conventional constraints, though: the watch had to be a wearable size, and retain certain tactile qualities such as the texture and thermal transfer of metal. More importantly, it would have to be practically wearable and not technically compromised purely for the sake of lightness. As it turns out, it would take us a couple of years longer than expected and an exhaustive amount of metallurgy and testing. ‍ Exotic solutions to chase numbers ‍ MT began by rethinking the entire case construction to minimize the amount of metal used, whilst retaining (and maximizing) rigidity. In a normal watch, the dial is fixed to the movement, which is in turn fixed to the caseband, with upper and lower bezels forming the front crystal and caseback respectively. The MING LW.01 has a combined dial ring and movement holder shaped like a hat, just 0.5mm thick in places but ribbed for strength. To prevent