Ming x Massena Lab 57.09 - Sweet Collaboration or Sour Inflation?! - Worth The Hype?! Episode #77
My Watches PodcastShow Notes
The MING × Massena LAB 57.09 Secret Honey combines MING’s contemporary design with the honey-toned vintage-dial inspiration of their earlier 17.09 collaboration. Its 40mm Grade 5 titanium case measures 10.17mm thick, 47.8mm lug-to-lug, and offers 100m water resistance, with contrasting gold- and rose-gold-tone coatings on the stepped lugs.
The dial features three rotating sapphire discs completing one revolution every 24 hours, 12 hours and 60 minutes, creating a shifting visual interference pattern, with orange Super-LumiNova on the honey-coloured hour and minute indications. Power comes from the Sellita for MING 330.M2 automatic movement. Limited to 125 pieces, it comes with both a Jean Rousseau goat-leather strap and a black FKM rubber strap.
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