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I don’t get tired of looking at, photographing or talking about this movement and the wonderful and ambitious work that Jason and @zachsmiami are doing over at @1776atelier

Here’s another movement walkthrough of the Mount Vernon to start this Sunday!

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I recently got to spend some time with the Oliver Gallaugher Deep Space Blue prototype, which is the second release from @olivergallaugher and features a stunning blue dial in a 904L stainless steel case with an excellent movement from Le Temps Manufactures.

Here is a quick look at the stunning dial, how it breathes under different lighting conditions, and how the watch wears on my 6.75” wrist. You can also get a sense of how much attention has been given to the details, like on the beautifully sculpted and branded buckle. Although that is going to be revised to be slightly smaller on the final 10 piece production run.

And most importantly are the hands, which are unlike anything else I’ve seen before, but we’ll get to that in another post/reel.

#olivergallaugher #watchreview

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More MING 17.03 Ultra Blue GMT! But this time I wanted to highlight the terrific lume design. I’m becoming slightly partial to the way @mingwatches integrated lume into their watches in the past. It wasn’t as sophisticated as it is today with the etched crystals, Polar White, etc. but it was highly legible, consistent and often very bright!

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I just published my full review of the Peacock Witness Tourbillon, and I think it may be an interesting read/watch for anyone curious about the current capabilities of Chinese watchmaking and Peacock in general (@peacockwatch.official), particularly in the tiers where better finishing, stronger quality control and more deliberate design are expected.

This watch has been a genuinely surprising experience. The hand-turned guilloché dial/platine, exposed tourbillon movement, asymmetric layout, clean machine finishing and excellent overall quality control all make it feel far more serious than the “cheap Chinese tourbillon” stereotype would suggest.

It is not haute horology in the traditional six-figure sense, but it is a remarkable way to experience a well-made, well-executed tourbillon watch without creeping into five-figure ‘Swiss Made’ tourbillon territory.

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Some more MING Polymesh footage for this MING Monday; seen here on my MING 18.01 h41 DLC. The blacked out case and raw titanium bracelet combination seems to not be a hit based on all the comments I’ve received 😂. To me the @mingwatches Polymesh behaves like a strap made of metal, and I’ve used plenty of grey straps on this watch, so visually I enjoy the contrast. And the comfort on wrist is excellent!

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Starting off this week (and MING Monday) with a series of photographs of the case of the 57 Series.

I measured the case of the MING 57.04 Iris at 40 mm in diameter, 47.25 mm lug-to-lug, and 12.10 mm in overall thickness including both crystals, bezel, and case-back. As someone who has always been more drawn to case design than dials, and particularly to the ornate lugs of the Art Deco era, I knew immediately that the new 57-series case was something I had to experience.

It delivers in every way: made from steel, the triple-stepped 20 mm spaced lugs may look familiar at first glance, but a closer look reveals that each of the three sections is a separate component, individually finished with brushed flanks and polished upper surfaces. The build quality and finishing are excellent, and it’s obvious to anyone familiar with watchmaking that producing a case this intricate costs significantly more than usual.

Despite the specs, the thickness is visually well balanced thanks to the way the lugs transition into the mid-case, and the even distribution of height across the mid-case, the S-shaped polished bezel, and the polished case-back. The bezel holds a flat sapphire crystal with generous AR coating, offering excellent reflection control: better, in my opinion, than the curved crystals on the @mingwatches 37 Series.

On the left side, a 7.4 mm push-pull crown in a destro configuration feels perfectly placed for a monopusher of this size, remaining comfortable and unobtrusive on the wrist. Around back, a screw-secured case-back features a sapphire exhibition window. This watch is rated for up-to 100m of water resistance. Overall, the design, build quality, and finishing are exceptional: the case looks incredible in person, the lugs are genuinely magical, the crystal provides superb legibility, and the crown placement enhances the ergonomics.

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I’ve recently photographed/handled a couple of different wandering hour watches, almost across the entire price spectrum of available options, from the Orphic Project 0 to the Otsuka Lotec No. 5 to the Urwerk Spock. And all of these watches can trace their mechanical lineage back to this wonderful piece created by Audemars Piguet back in 1991.

The original Audemars Piguet Star Wheel feels as futuristic today as it did when it debuted in 1991. Its wandering hours display is said to trace its origins back to the Campani brothers in 17th century Rome, who devised the complication for Pope Alexander VII, before disappearing from watchmaking for centuries.

Audemars Piguet resurrected this concept by placing three transparent sapphire hour discs on rotating star-shaped carriers above beautifully engine-turned guilloché dials, many of which have since developed gorgeous plum, copper, and champagne tones as the original clear lacquer has naturally aged over the last three decades.

Underneath sits the legendary Calibre 2120, which was derived from Jaeger-LeCoultre’s famed 920, one of the finest ultra-thin automatic movements ever produced.

Audemars Piguet has never publicly credited an outside supplier, and their historical accounts suggest that they created this module themselves unlike a lot of Dubois-Depraz based complications used by them at the time.

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Digging this up from when I shot the MING 29.01 Worldtimer Dubai Edition a while ago, because I think about this movement quite often. What I particularly like is how Ming Thein turned a fairly good looking, but also slightly dull and generic Schwarz Etienne ASE200 micro-rotor movement architecture into something beautiful, architectural and also sculptural; and MING also addressed some technical limitations along the way.

The 29.01 Dubai Edition is powered by the Schwarz-Etienne for MING caliber ASE 222, a heavily reworked movement compared to previous MING models like the 19.02 and the 20.11 Mosaic, both of which also used Schwarz-Etienne micro-rotor movements.

For the 29.01, MING has taken a more architectural approach to the movement’s design, and has implemented several aesthetic and functional upgrades.

Among the improvements is a new mounting system for the micro-rotor, which is now supported by ceramic ball bearings. This is a notable enhancement over the direct mounting of the micro-rotor seen in my 20.11 Mosaic, providing smoother operation and increased durability.

The movement features a tungsten rotor with sculpted contours that align with the fluid, dynamic aesthetic of the case. And it looks like the straight edge of the rotor has hand polished bevels.

The movement is finished with a 5N rose gold coating and diamond-cut anglage. With a 70-hour power reserve, similar to previous models, the 29.01 introduces a more skeletonized approach that boldly showcases the inner workings of its barrel.

While the finishing may not reach the level of hand-polished anglage or complex interior angles, the movement delivers a visually striking experience with several intricate details and architectural elements.

MING does not specify precise performance metrics for the ASE 222, though it notes that the movement is adjusted to five positions. Based on my experience with the caliber ASE200.2 in the 20.11, this movement generally maintains accurate time within single-digit deviations per day.

After purchasing my 20.11 Mosaic, I learned that this movement architecture was developed with contributions from Simon Brette, who has since gained recognition for hi

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Received the Otsuka Lotec No. 5 Kai recently it proves that telling time can be an art form. Every glance reveals another detail—an ingenious satellite-hour display wrapped in unmistakable Japanese independent watchmaking.

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