The unending pursuit by watch companies of the most commercially successful blue dial watch with integrated steel bracelet has left a lot of empty space for other expressions of a blue dial wristwatch. With their latest expression of the Big Date, Mido have grasped this empty space with both hands, producing a watch that has a deep blue dial, but is encased in a rose gold tone case, and strapped to the wrist with a matching midnight blue leather strap. It isn’t a watch that has already been done to death, and to add to the refreshing take, the aptly named Mido Baroncelli Big Date Limited Edition offers a date display that is far more balanced than we are used to seeing on a dress watch. Starting with the dial, the starburst blue dial is brushed to radiate from the large (and ever so slightly stepped) date aperture, rather than the typical and more symmetrical point where the hands are mounted. What it loses in horizontal symmetry, it gains in the way it draws the eye towards the date window and emphasises the lateral symmetry that is lost whenever the date window is placed at 3 o’clock on the dial.…
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