Introducing: Mido Multifort 8 One Crown Two-Tone

BY HARLAN CHAPMAN-GREEN

It wasn’t that long ago that we were talking about a new Mido watch. The Multifort 8 One Crown article we published a couple of weeks ago got generally favourable comments. One of my favourite ones is this: “Mido really said, “you know what, let’s just make a Royal Oak for people with normal salaries” and honestly, I respect it”. Firstly, thank you for reading our work, Delston_Wizard. I think the Multifort 8 gets more of its looks from Girard-Perregaux’s Laureato myself, but, like you, I appreciate that Mido went to the effort of making something with a similar feel to watches whose price tags are often five figures, assuming you survive the waiting list (if there is one).

Mido has now followed up with another version of the Multifort 8 One Crown, featuring a two-tone look. The main difference between this watch and the last one is the PVD application of rose gold to the Multifort’s octagonal bezel – where the 8 in the name comes from – and to the centre links of the bracelet. Both the case and bracelet are made from stainless steel, and the case measures 40mm x 9.9mm with 100m of water resistance.

The watch’s dial is a clean matte black with horizontal lines. The hands and applied markers are both rose-gold coloured, with Super-LumiNova applications making the watch legible in low-light conditions. The only thing that stands out for me is the date window, which is not colour-matched to the dial. I don’t know why they chose a white backdrop, but it stands out to me.

Behind the dial and the non colour-matched date window sits the Mido Calibre 80, which is based on the faithful workhorse calibre C07.611. It has a long power reserve of 80 hours and a beat rate of 3Hz, thanks to its Nivachron hairspring, which is more resistant to magnetism than a standard metal spring. The Calibre 80 is visible through the sapphire crystal caseback with some Côtes de Genève finishing on the winding rotor.

I like the way Mido’s new Multifort 8 One Crown looks in two tone, it gives it a more grown up air but remains unstuffy, and it serves as a reminder that the main point of being into wristwatches is to find what works for you, and that what works doesn’t have to be at the end of a long period of saving money or sitting on a waiting list.