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The general perception is that of a premium watch for finishes and technical specifications that are, among other things, appearing in a large font on the transparent case-back, where the designers created a rehaut around the movement. This is a pleasant, but historically difficult effect to capture using a camera. It's a mix that works quite well also because the black dial creates beautiful shadows when exposed to artificial light sources with a predominant yellow tone that match the cream-colored lume. The Côtes de Genéve motif is an unavoidable element, but the same cannot be said of the original dial that lost its big indexes and gained twelve thin applied indexes all identical to each other and partially filled with cream-colored SuperLuminova® like the hands and the central seconds hand. It is simpler but richer too.Īfter many versions (a bit too many to be honest because they confuse you) Mido paved the way for a new path with its Multifort Chronometer 1. Mido’s technical and aesthetic evolution in recent years also affected the Multifort collection and the Multifort Chronometer 1 is the current arrival point of a design strategy that aimed to lighten up aesthetics from a formal point of view and to enhance the performance of the watch itself from a technical point of view. If we exclude the Multifort Datometer, which is the re-edition of the original watch issued for the brand’s centenary, the Multifort is identifiable mainly as a sports watch with Côtes de Genéve decorations on the dial.
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The more familiar and the first watch of this collection was the Multifort Chronograph Limited Edition the first chronograph of the brand I wrote about, followed by a long series of two-register-chronos and several time-only versions, such as the Escape series with its Horween leather strap. The Multifort is by far Mido’s most popular collection, it is easily recognizable in modern times for its black PVD– treated steel case, its Côtes de Genève dial and the round indices mixed with the elongated indices placed at 3, 6,9, and 12 o’clock. The Mido Multifort Chronometer 1 is the first Chronometer certified Multifort in the history of the brand. Despite all a movement that is Chronometer certified is still more valuable and precise than the same movement without that specific certification. Some consider this certification to be obsolete (and perhaps it always was because it focused on the uncased movement), even before the METAS certification made its debut that lowered the COSC certification’s appeal and made it inevitably more accessible.