Ming

Lisa met Ming and his colleagues at the Biennale in Venice in 2022, while exhibiting at a Homo Faber event for The Michelangelo foundation. While talking they realised they had a shared interest in movement, form, detail and an affinity with curves and dynamic shaping.

Once back in the UK they started to discuss a collaboration to visually re-interpret a watch that they would be launching the following year; the MING 29.01 Worldtimer. It was a inspiring conversation involving exploded diagrams and deconstructing the elements of the watch. Looking at all the individual elements that make Ming’s watches so beautiful: their iconic logo, markings, cog and hand designs; even the indices and graphics used on the dial.

The vision was to create a futuristic metropolis, an ecosystem within the dome that the viewer could travel around and view from any angle; seeing something new and unexpected at every turn. Every tiny detail is made from paper, using hundreds of individual elements from beautiful Fedrigoni metallic paper in 5 different colours.