MING 37.09 Uni

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, we’ve 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, our 37.09 Uni is a black-DLC armored dive watch with orange highlights, and an inspiration or two from its namesake. We enjoy it as a palate cleansing break from the rest of the collection but remain confident in its survival abilities thanks to its 38mm DLC-coated case that’s cleverly engineered, ensuring pressure balancing and water resistance to 600m with a sapphire caseback. 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 – with only 150 of the 37.09 Unis available this year. Watches will be available from www.ming.watch on 23 January, 1PM GMT for CHF 5,250.

Technical specifications

MING 37.09 Uni

150 watches produced in 2025

Case

• Material: 316L stainless steel, with a matte-brushed finish, DLC coated
• Diameter: 38mm
• Thickness: 12.8mm
• Lug-to-lug: 44.5mm
• Glass: Domed sapphire crystals front and rear, with double-sided antireflective coating
• Water-resistant to 600 meters with additional safety factor
• Lug width: 20mm

Dial and hands

• Super-LumiNova X1 indices inside top crystal, and on sapphire dial
• Super-LumiNova X1 coated hands

Movement

• Sellita for MING SW300.M1, anthracite skeletonized bridges and rotor with contrast circular brushing
• Automatic winding with ~50hr power reserve at full wind
• Hacking seconds for setting

Functions/Indications

• Hours, minutes and seconds
• Internal 60-click timer scale on unidirectional rotating dial, via crown at 4

Strap and buckle

• New moulded FKM rubber strap
• 20mm width, curved bars with quick release
• Fitted with DLC coated ‘flying blade’ tuck buckle with micro adjustment

MSRP: CHF 5'250

For more information, please visit ming.watch