In 2018, Mido is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. To commemorate the centennial, it has been revisiting some of its most important models from the brand’s entire history. Chief among them is the Multifort Datometer Limited Edition, which is modeled after a 1939 watch by the same name, released five years after the original Multifort in 1934. This vintage piece held a number of defining characteristics, from its small steel case with ?scalloped? lugs, dauphine hands, circular date indicator, and rounded ?Super Automatic? script towards the bottom of the dial. Each of these elements, with exception to the specific script, were not uncommon for the era, yet few pieces connected them within a single design. While these original Datometers from the late ?30s and early ?40s are sometimes difficult to come by on the vintage market today, later models from the 1950s are frequently available for a few hundred dollars.
The modern piece (reference M036.407.36.031.0) is a faithful homage to the original with some key distinguishing features of its own. With a 38-mm steel case coated in a rose gold PVD, the contemporary watch matches the vintage with its continued use of ?scalloped? lugs and the rounded end of its crown. The silver dial of the piece has a slightly domed construction and features a sandblasted finish; on its edge is an outer minute ring with the vintage watch?s signature analog date markers encasing it. Printed Arabic numerals meet these outer fe...