Mido

It was in 1949 that Walter Gygax launched the Cornavin Watch in Geneva. The watches were very conventional in design—calendar watches, automatic watches, ladies’ watches—and the movements came from the Ebauches SA trust. How Cornavin came to develop a wat

I ask because Mido has a watch called "Multi-Fort" and I'm wondering what could Extra-Fort and Multi-Fort mean? Also I hope this watch turns out to be everything you believe it will. Good things still come to those who do their research. Congratulations.

I think this is an under rated chronograph watch. Beautiful design multi-color dial makes it attractive. Although I have seen this watch with other color dials but this is much nicer.

That is the immediate ancestor. Per De Bethune, the case is 11.7mm thick; I'm not sure about total thickness with the crystal. I've never handled one, but they look lovely in photos. I mentioned the Mido because I was thinking that it, rather than the Lon

I love central-minutes chronographs and can't heap enough praise on this design. Centralizing the hours too, in an automatic movement, at just 13mm total thickness--truly remarkable. Perhaps one might see this as a distant descendant of one of the dressie

A last photo of a watch I can't get tired of. Not only charming, but a true time capsule. Best, nicolas

The crystal cracked finally and I need to find a new one...ideally with the MIDO logo on the underside. Also the last guy who worked on it wasn"t the most careful and he left dust under the crystal. But at least he got it running again. That's the best I

Mido Ocean Star Powerwind

Brands like Vacheron have tapped back into their past for decades, and Patek arguably has never strayed too far from their past in all of their releases, with all models being not too different from the models of the 40s - 60s (with the exception of the n