Memorigin x Hong Kong Athletes

William Shum, Memorigin’s founder, calls Coleman Wong talented, hard-working and modest — and at 19 he was already the first Hong Kong player to win a professional title. In 2023 Memorigin asked him to design a watch.

That summer Wong had just won mixed doubles bronze for Hong Kong at the World University Games in Chengdu, and flew home straight into the photoshoot. In 2025 he became the first Hong Kong player to win a main-draw match at an ATP Masters 1000, at the Miami Open.

One of Hong Kong’s strongest mixed doubles pairs. In 2023, their tenth year together, William Shum — a lifelong table tennis player — asked them to make a watch to mark it. He admits Wong once beat him playing left-handed.

At the Paris Olympics they finished fourth, the best result ever for a Hong Kong mixed pair, and launched the watch at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair on 3 September 2024. Doo says the orange ball on the hand takes her back to playing as a child.

“Asia’s King of Cycling”: track world champion, three Asian Games golds, five Olympics. After racing he coached the next generation, and he has now given more than thirty years to the sport.

He launched BALANCE at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair on 5 September 2023, arriving with a bike and the rainbow jersey of a world champion, and told the room the story behind both.

“When you win, don’t let it go to your head. When you lose, let it go.”— Wong Kam Po

A former Hong Kong team swimmer who set Hong Kong records in the 200m backstroke and 400m individual medley at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. He and William Shum went to the same school, St. Joseph’s College, and have known each other for years.

In 2019 he took on a charity challenge: to swim alone around Hong Kong Island, 45km, to raise money for clean water. Memorigin made Ambassador of HOPE to back him and served as official timekeeper. He set off from Sandy Bay at 5am on 5 November and finished in 10 hours 43 minutes 6 seconds, raising more than HK$7.8 million. In November 2026 he gets back in the water with his father and brother, for a 35km charity swim between Hong Kong and Macau.

World No. 1 in women’s kata, Grace Lau designed The Peak-Zone with her training partner, the American karateka Ariel Torres. Full-time athletes live in the dojo, so the dojo is on the dial: carved wood grain, the mat, the belt.

In one week of 2025 she won the Asian title, the K1 Premier League in Morocco and the season’s overall crown. She brought the champion’s gold-trimmed gi to the launch at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair 2025.

“We walk into the dojo in daylight and leave under the night sky. The star dial is gold on purpose: it stands for the medal we train for.”— Grace Lau

In 2022 Memorigin worked with the Hong Kong team’s French coach Gregory Koenig, team fencer Cheung Siu Lun and international referee Cheng Chi Hung on three watches, named for what the sport asks of you: Elegance, Flexibility, Focus.

Part of the proceeds fund fencing lessons in Hong Kong schools. Schoolchildren fenced on stage at the launch, and that December the three watches went up over the Cross-Harbour Tunnel.

“I hope this brings more people to fencing.”— Cheung Siu Lun

He started bowling at eight, following his father. He won the 51st Bowling World Cup in 2015, a historic world trios title with Mak Cheuk Yin and Tseng Tak Hin in 2017, and has been named a Hong Kong Outstanding Athlete seven times.

He was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, recovered, and bowled better afterwards. 2018 was his twentieth year as a professional, and the year he was made a Justice of the Peace. Before his illness, he says, he cared about results; after it, about the process. He dedicated his first watch design to his late father.

In 2021 Memorigin sponsored the charity premiere of Zero to Hero, the film about So Wa Wai and his mother, So Hon Siu Ching. William Shum was moved by it, and through his friend Marco Fu he met So and asked the two of them to design with him.

So began with the track and his finishing-line gesture. In their talks he kept coming back to his mother’s support, and a second watch followed, for mothers everywhere. The four of them — two mothers and two sons — shot the photos before Mother’s Day 2022, and So and his mother wore the watches to the Hong Kong Film Awards that year.

“It feels warm, and I love it. More important, part of the proceeds from both watches go to the Hong Kong Paralympic Committee, for disability sport here.”— So Hon Siu Ching

At 23 a traffic accident took his left leg. Badminton brought him back and made him a full-time athlete: 16 years on the Hong Kong team, nearly 500 international matches and more than 80 medals, until he retired in 2024.

In July 2025 the watch went up on a billboard in Causeway Bay, and on 4 September it launched at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair, with his wife and mother in the room.

A Hong Kong sevens player with more than seventy international tournaments. 2024 was the last Hong Kong Sevens at Hong Kong Stadium before the move to Kai Tak, and he fitted the photoshoot around training for it.

“This is the last year of the Sevens at Hong Kong Stadium before it moves to Kai Tak, so it’s my last tango at the stadium.”— Salom Yiu

Hong Kong captain at 19, and later the first Hong Kong player to start in the Chinese Super League. He wanted the watch to carry the spirit he brings to every day.

“I trained on the pitch downstairs with my dad and my brother, got picked for the Hong Kong youth team, signed my first contract with Peterborough in the Championship, captained Hong Kong, and became the first Hong Kong professional to make it in the Chinese Super League.”— Chan Chun Lok

He learned karate from his father, a former Hong Kong representative, and went full-time at 15. In 2021 he won Hong Kong’s first men’s kata gold at the Asian Youth Championships; in 2023 he won gold at the World Combat Games, and became Hong Kong’s first world No. 1 in U21 men’s kata.

William Shum admired his discipline and asked him to design Karate Spirit.

A Hong Kong first-division player, known as much for his volunteering with young people as for his game.

His charity limited edition launched at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair on 3 September 2026. The proceeds pay for training, kit and a chance to compete for children from low-income families who have the talent but not the means.

Darts left the pub long ago: it takes the whole body, a steady eye and endless practice, much like building a tourbillon. In 2017 Hong Kong player Cathy Leung and the Singaporean star Paul Lim designed the 501 Series with Memorigin, and wore it to tournaments around the world.