West End Watch Multi Centerchrono in stainless steel with Borgel case

West End Watch Multi Centerchrono in stainless steel with Borgel caseThe Multi Centerchrono is one of the most ingenious and underappreciated chronograph concepts of the 1940s. Produced by Mido and sold under several trade names West End among them it houses the calibre 1300, a heavily modified Valjoux VZ that achieves something genuinely unusual: a fully centralised chronograph layout with no subdials whatsoever. Start the chrono and a fourth central hand begins counting elapsed minutes alongside the seconds hand an

The effect is monochromatic but never monotonous

it was the largest Calatrava of its era

The reference 16220 represents the Datejust at its most classically resolved — produced from 1988 to 2000

This 33mm rose gold example is built around a dial of exceptional refinement

A Movado Sport in Borgel configuration

and a dial conceived as an object of beauty in its own right

offering precision and reliability that purely mechanical movements of the era could not match

wearing four decades with complete authenticity

with a dial this characterful

For collectors

the enamel dial retaining its integrity and the gold case wearing its decades with appropriate dignity

The cream dial is a study in period clarity: two guilloché subdials at 9 and 3