If I Could Create My Dream Mido

If you're just tuning in, what you may not know is that I am, at heart, a pretty devoted fan of Mido -

Fathers, Sons, And All That Comes With It

So if I were given the opportunity to design my "dream Mido", (and you'll have to employ your imagination a bit here), it would combine two existing Mido GMT models -

The basis would be the Ocean Star GMT Limited Edition for Hodinkee -

Courtesy of Hodinkee and Mido

I would opt for a non co-branded case back ; )

I would change the bezel insert to the one from this globe trotting time machine which indicates various major cities -

Courtesy of Mido

Now in a completely perfect world I would replace New York with Zanesville (Ohio), Los Angeles with Eugene (Oregon), Tokyo with Kasukabe (Japan), and London with St. Andrews (Scotland). 

I'm sure the folks at Mido will drop everything and jump on this idea ; )

Enjoy your watches!

When Mido Crawled Inside My Head - The Ocean Star Decompression WorldTimer

Courtesy of Mido

Regular readers of "the blog formerly known as Tempus Fugit" will note that I have a somewhat pronounced (and some have even said unusual) affinity for Mido watches. You could truly call me a "lifelong" fan as my father was given one the day before I made my world debut in 1968. 

Time has passed, and with it several different Midos (some vintage, some NOS, some new) have come and gone from my collection. My Commander is not going anywhere -

You can read more about that here -

https://www.henkitime.com/2021/10/fathers-sons-and-all-that-comes-with-it.html

And though the Hodinkee GMT was (and is) impressive, this latest time machine from Mido takes the biscuit! It is, as if, the designers in Le Locle climbed inside of my fevered head, and pulled together every disjointed idea I had for the perfect Mido watch, and reassembled it!

Courtesy of Mido

It comes in two "tropical flavors" - blue (above) and black -

Courtesy of Mido

I'll be going into more detail over the next few days, so stay tuned!