Coleman Wong

Tennis

William Shum, Memorigin's founder, has followed tennis for years and calls Coleman Wong talented, hard-working and humble. In 2023 he invited him, at 19, to design a watch. Coleman had just won mixed doubles bronze for Hong Kong at the World University Games in Chengdu, and came home straight to the photoshoot. The idea is the swing. The dial follows the strings of a racket, the tourbillon turns like a ball in flight, and the markers and hands are tennis-ball yellow. His motto, “Survive Every Storm”, is engraved on the carbon fibre case, and his signature on the back. He launched it at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair in September 2023. Since then he has won a main-draw match at an ATP Masters 1000 event, in Miami in 2025, and in March 2026 reached a career-high world ranking of 120.

Wong Chun Ting & Doo Hoi Kem

Table tennis · mixed doubles

William Shum has played table tennis since childhood — well enough, he says, to lose to Wong Chun Ting playing left-handed. In 2023, the pair's tenth year together, he asked them to make a watch to mark it. The dial is drawn from overlapping paddle outlines, and an orange ball rides the hand, so the hours pass like a rally. A tourbillon keeps time only when every part works together, the founder said at the launch — like a mixed doubles pair. Doo says the orange ball takes her back to playing as a child. They launched it at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair in September 2024, weeks after finishing fourth in Paris. Since then: a fourth World Championships podium in 2025, and a mixed doubles title at WTT Contender Zagreb in 2026.

Alex Fong

Swimming

A former Hong Kong team swimmer, Alex Fong set Hong Kong records 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 swam 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. The dial is about hope: rainbow colours, the sign that a storm has passed, flow around a river of light with ripples spreading out. Memorigin made a coloured movement for it, set in a carbon fibre barrel case.

Every bout opens with a salute — to the opponent, the referee and the audience — which is why fencing is called combat with grace. In 2022 Memorigin made three fencing watches, each with one person who lives by that code. Elegance was made with Gregory Koenig, the Hong Kong team's French coach, known for the elegance of his training. Five black diamonds mark the hours, “FENCING” is carved into the day-and-night display, and the power-reserve hand is a sword. He visited the Memorigin Hong Kong R&D Centre while designing it: “I hope this collaboration can draw more public attention to fencing.” In 2024 he led Hong Kong's men's foil team to gold. Each fencing watch sold pays for a child to learn fencing through Cheers Up Foundation's schools programme.

Gerald Cheng Chi Hung is an international referee qualified by the FIE, fencing's world body. Each watch in the series is named after a quality of the sport; his is Focus. He presented it on stage at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair 2022. Its case has sharp, hard edges, and the yellow, red and black penalty cards a referee shows are set in relief on the day-and-night display. The grey dial carries a skeleton fencing mask. For each Focus sold, a child learns fencing through Cheers Up Foundation's programme in Hong Kong schools.

So Wa Wai & So Hon Siu Ching

Paralympic sprint — a son and his mother

In 2021 Memorigin sponsored the premiere of Zero to Hero, the film of So Wa Wai's life and his mother's devotion. William Shum was moved by it, and through Marco Fu he met So and asked whether he would inspire more people with the brand. So began with the track and his winning gesture: on The Champion he crosses the line, one finger raised towards a star. As they talked he kept returning to his mother, and a second watch followed. Heroic Mom shows a mother lifting her child high, the movement turning quietly beneath her — the support you rarely see. Mother and son wore the pair to the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards. “The watch was full of warmth when I received it. I like it very much,” she said. Part of the proceeds goes to the Hong Kong Paralympic Committee, and a pair was given to the Dragon Foundation for a charity auction.

Salom Yiu Kam Shing

Rugby sevens

Salom Yiu Kam Shing has played more than seventy international tournaments in Hong Kong's sevens side. Last Tango is his debut as a designer, and he fitted the photoshoot around training for the 2024 Hong Kong Sevens. That tournament was the last at Hong Kong Stadium. “This year marks the final year of the Rugby Sevens tournament at the Hong Kong Stadium before its relocation to Kai Tak Sports Park next year, making this year's event the ‘Last Tango’ at the stadium,” he said. The dial keeps the stadium: an upright rugby ball around its outline, H-shaped posts echoed in the hour hand, and the Cup, Plate, Bowl and Shield — three decades of matches on one watch.

Cathy Leung

Darts

Darts asks for the whole body, a steady eye and endless practice — much like making a tourbillon. In 2017 Hong Kong darts player Cathy Leung designed the 501 Series with Memorigin, together with the Singaporean player Paul Lim, and wore it to tournaments around the world. The skeleton dial is black, the hands luminous red. A rose-gold dart engraved on the dial is a reminder to practise day and night; a traditional dartboard stands for the one throw that counts.