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!

You Get to Pick 1 of Each... Frederique Constant

So onwards with quest to pick one of the "current" collections of the brands I will visit in a few weeks, it is Frederique Constant.  This is the Manufacture Worldtimer - in BLUE!

Courtesy of Frederique Constant

I am a sucker for world timers, and the design of this one is particularly appealing.  Global cities chapter ring, 24 hour scale in the inner ring.  The date at 6 o'clock.

So here are the details, straight from the source -

Manufacture Worldtimer

FC-718NWM4H6

SPECIFICATIONS

FC-718 Automatic movement
26 jewels, 28'800 alt/h and 42 power reserve, with Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Date, Worldtimer.

Stainless steel case, diameter of 42mm with Convex sapphire and 2-O-Rings crown, height 12.1mm. Water-resistant to 5 ATM.

Navy blue dial, worldmap, white luminous indexes

Navy blue alligator strap with white stitches

360° views of a watch in this collection.

Summer Reruns - a Few Minutes with Peter Stas

As I am in the middle of the Alpina review, it seemed like a good time to re-heat this one from last August.


From very uncertain beginnings, Peter Stas and his wife Aletta have nurtured Frederique Constant from its birth, growing it into one of the watch world's serious players in a very short time.  And now, a few minutes with Peter Stas -

Courtesy of Frederique Constant

"Pirata" Caribeño horas del mundo from Cuervo y Sobrinos

Along with me weakness for alarm watches, I have an possibly unhealthy affinity for world time watches.  I suppose it might have something to do with having lived in the US, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, England, Finland and Canada....

Courtesy of Cuervo y Sobrinos

At any rate, this is the "Pirata" Caribeño horas del mundo from Cuervo y Sobrinos, and here are the details:

Movement

Automatic, diameter 26,20 mm, height 4,10 mm, 25 rubies, power reserve 42 hours

Functions

Hours, minutes seconds, date and time with universal disc counter, indication of the time in the world in 24 different cities and second 24 hour disc counter

Case

Bronze, titanium, burnished and polished steel, antireflective sapphire crystal on both sides, waterproof to 5 ATM, diameter 45 mm, height 12.40 mm

Strap

Rubber strap with bronze stitching, 

www.cuervoysobrinos.com