WHY WE LIKE IT

This is the early 1940s, the golden years of watchmaking; the birth of Mido Multi-Centerchrono brings something completely new and different to the market: a chronograph without counters!

This is a “sommatore centrale”, it has two central hands one, as on normal chronographs, measures seconds, the other (the one that on Multi-Centerchrono is always red) measures minutes.

The case is the mythological Borgel case with “tasti tondi” used by other famous chronographs, Patek 1463, Movado M90 and M95, Ulysse Nardin.

This chronograph is a cross between two pillars of vintage watchmaking; it is “sommatore centrale” like the Longines 5699 and uses the Borgel case with “tasti tondi” chronographs like the Patek 1463, but… Mido created a sommatore centrale watch before Longines and was the first watchmaker to use the FB Case, in fact in 1937 saw the birth of the Mido Multichrono (the daddy of the Multicenter), the first waterproof chronograph in history.

The incredible variety and type of dials makes it an icon.