Take that excellent sizing and add to it drilled lugs, a sapphire link crystal, a large guard-less crown, a solid caseback, and a case treated link to Seiko's Dia-Shield hardening, and you have a balanced and handsome design that wears well on any strap I tried while offering strong legibility, equally strong lume, and link really no weakness on wrist.

With the 17.09 MING x Massena LAB Limited Edition, another link longtime collector and fixture of the enthusiast community adds his own touches to the already hard-to-come-by-watch. William Massena, who requires little by way of introduction to HODINKEE readers, is the former managing director of Timezone and a Talking Watches alumnus. Massena and Thein have known each other for years, and unsurprisingly they met through their interest in watches.