“Probably less than the other brands as we don’t have retail locations or a huge staff. Thein has much more positive expectations on how MING will be performing and if its being affected harshly in these times though. I think where we’ll see a huge shift is in the physical retail landscape, especially in Asia which has historically been less online friendly than Europe or the US,” he adds when asked if he thinks the power of balance between big and smaller brands will change 17.03 Courtesy © HOROLOGER MING 2020 Where larger brands will be more heavily impacted is in reliance on physical retailers that must have foot traffic in order to sell – that’s totally gone – and a lack of online sale infrastructure. “Whether a brand survives or not has nothing to do with its size, but the way the business is run. “I think we’re all going to be equally affected, mostly by the smaller critical suppliers of things most collectors don’t even think about – screws and gaskets, for example,” says Ming when asked about how this pandemic will affect the entire Swiss watchmaking industry as a whole The pandemic will be affecting the entire Swiss watchmaking industry as a whole, and not just affect the relatively smaller, upcoming independent brands like MING. What will flourish is the genuine love for watches, because that’s more of an intrinsic value for humans rather than a show-off piece. With actual retail fronts being closed or restricted to limited working hours, and people being confined to their homes, the safe queens will remain in the safes. This is more true especially these days in the current COVID-19 virus laden global pandemic that’s shutting down small manufactures and affecting the global luxury industry far worse than the recession from the last decade.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and the love for a watch should be personal. We strongly believe that for someone a quartz TAG Heuer watch that would be blasted left, right and centre by watch collectors could be equally grail worthy as a Patek Philippe Nautilus. The industry has become heavy on snobbism, and we wanted to break away from that. This statement also drove closer home, because we started - it’s just two of us at Watch Ya Gonna Do About It, watch enthusiasts, collectors, admirers, whatever label you wish to put on us - this new review website solely because we wanted to write about watches from the perspective of what we would like to read. Ming Thein Courtesy © HOROLOGER MING 2020 More often than not, brands are churning out watches for those who simply wish to show off the wealth they have it’s all become a mine’s-bigger-than-yours syndrome rather than pandering to the true love for horology.
Not many brands can honestly claim to say this. “… it carries the weight of our personal expectations and experience and commercial/business ones, too. “This is a heavily loaded statement…,” he says. I have been around enough phoney watch enthusiasts and sales people in my own personal watch collecting journey to spot a gem in the rough. The first thing that hits you like a welcome spring breeze is Ming Thein’s genuine love of watches. We ended up conducting an interview with the man himself, Ming Thein. Impressed, we wanted to find out more about this new disruptor that’s taken the centuries old Swiss watch industry and stirred it more than James Bond’s martini. It is essentially the same watch as the award winning 17.06 Copper, but with a different coloured aesthetic. Recently we had the opportunity to review their last release, the MING 17.06 Slate. The most impressive part about all of this: MING has been in existence since only 2017! To put in simply, the MING watches team has come a long way. Ming Team accepting Horological Revelation Prize at GPHG 2019. Since then, Ming Thein & Dr Magnus Bosse have also been invited to join the Academy of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. MING 17.06 Copper then took home the Horological Revelation Prize at GPHG 2019. The namesake MING watches 19.01 has been nominated as a finalist in the Petit Aiguille category of the Grand Prix D’Horlogerie De Genève 2018 Edition, and won the Aurochronos Festival 2018 Grand Prix. YF Chek, Kin Meng Chan, Ming Thein, Jacky Lim, and Praneeth Rajsingh Image Courtesy © HOROLOGER MING 2020 Luxury Watch reviews for the Grail Collector
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