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The Ming 18.01 H41 - my main skiing watch ❄️🎿🤿
While my deep dives tend to happen in the office, far away from water, the number of dive watches in our household is also quite limited. They do double as quite competent skiing watches, where they see more frequent use.
The Ming 18.01 H41 - their first non-prototype dive watch - is likewise more often in use on skiing slopes. I really appreciate that it was one of the first post-IWC / Porsche Design Ocean 2000 dive watches with a 1000m WR and still a relatively small and slender profile. If I recall correctly it was also Ming’s first stainless steel watch - in spite of this it’s not all that heavy.
Heft and size is a very personal preference but I like to have my watches slender and not too heavy - the Seiko Izul notwithstanding my wrist does not support the larger dive watches specimen very well 🤷🏻♂️
Any other dive watches or Mings in the current rotation? Wishing you a great remaining Sunday 👋🏻❄️
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The Ming 18.01 H41 - my main skiing watch ❄️🎿🤿
While my deep dives tend to happen in the office, far away from water, the number of dive watches in our household is also quite limited. They do double as quite competent skiing watches, where they see more frequent use. The Ming 18.01 H41 - their first ...
This Ming does indeed seem to be a perfect skiing watch!
Great legibility and durability. Best, Emmanuel
Thank you 🙏🏻
Safely off the slopes but got some sort of allergic reaction - in bed - last night. Looked like someone punched my lights out 😂😂😂 Slowly returning to closer to normal but my phone still does not recognize me on facial recognition 😁🤷🏻♂️ ...
Office today, so safe and sound 😁
Fortunately the avalanches were a bit away, in France but there was a warning across much of the Alps 🤷🏻♂️
Should it ever fall off, at least it should be easy to find!
Keep it strapped on, just the same ;-)
What makes a good skiing watch?
I have never considered this genre. What does make for great specs and complications in a ski watch? Is there a dream mechanical complications avid skiing, mechanical watch nerds are hoping comes to market?
Don’t know about other skiing nerds…
For me it is an adequate mechanical robustness and WR so that if you fall that you do need t fear the watch not making it 😊