Last year, the Swiss watch brand Mido released a follow-up to its popular Mido Multifort Datometer watch, expanding upon the collection with the new Multifort Patrimony. Longtime readers of this series will remember that in 2018 we covered the Multifort Datometer, a watch commemorating the 100th anniversary of the brand and which upon its unveiling at Baselworld that year was applauded as being a top release of the year. The Multifort Patrimony is an extension of this watch?s success, shifting gears now from the 1939-inspired original model in the collection in favor of a new, and uncommon, mid-century-inspired design.

The new watch is available in three different colorways ? anthracite, blue, and black ? in which the blue uses a sunburst effect and the anthracite and black version use a gradient motif that recalls other watches that take inspiration from mid-20th-Century trends (think pieces produced by luxury manufacturer Glashütte Original, or by the micro-brand Evant). Using a 40-mm case available in either steel or steel with a gold PVD coating, the watch features the Multifort collection?s well-known scallop lugs, as well as a slightly rounded crown to adjust the time.
On the outer edge of the dial we find the watch?s primary notable feature, a pulsometer scale ? a once-practical tool found much more commonly on watches produced from the 1940s to ?60s, particularly chronographs, than on watches today. Its most common application was for doctors and other medical pr...