Mido has always treated its Multifort line as a working archive — a place to reissue the brand's most unusual case shapes for a new audience. The TV-shaped case, first introduced in the 1970s, is arguably the strangest and most beloved of them: a rounded-rectangle silhouette that looked, at the time, like the future of television. Fifty years later, Mido brought it back — and gave it a sequel. This is S01E02: tighter art direction, a louder dial, and a case finish built for a generation that grew up on screens, not just watches.

The Original Broadcast: Mido's TV Case

Mido's TV-shaped case is one of watchmaking's odder heritage stories. In the early 1970s, as television sets moved into nearly every household, watch designers across Switzerland experimented with case shapes borrowed from everyday objects — and Mido's take on the rounded-rectangle "television" silhouette became one of the era's most distinctive. It disappeared for decades, then returned to the Multifort collection as a heritage reissue, giving collectors a shape unlike anything else in a modern catalog.

The "S01E02" name isn't a gimmick tacked on after the fact — it's the concept the design team built the watch around. If the first TV Big Date reissue was the pilot episode, this special edition is explicitly framed as its sequel: same core shape, same engine, but a bolder script.

Design: A Pixel-Noise Dial

The dial's defining feature is its relief "pixel-noise" motif — a field of micro-geometry that shifts and shimmers as the watch catches light, deliberately built to evoke the static and test-card patterns of vintage television screens. A grey border and black inclined flange frame that busy center, giving the eye a clean edge to rest on before it's pulled back into the texture. White Super-LumiNova fills the hour markers and hands, so the reference stays legible even after the "broadcast" fades to black.

The case itself wears a uniform grey PVD finish across brushed and polished surfaces — an industrial, screen-grey tone that reads closer to a piece of vintage electronics than a traditional dress watch.

Case: Still the Strangest Shape in the Catalog

At 40mm by 39.2mm, with a 46.85mm lug-to-lug span, the TV-shaped case keeps the rounded-rectangle proportions that made the original so recognizable, scaled for a modern wrist. Sapphire crystal protects the dial, and a screwed crown backs up the watch's 100m water resistance rating — enough for daily wear, swimming, and the occasional splash without ceremony.

The Bonus Straps

All three come in the box, swappable without tools thanks to a quick-change system — so the same watch can go from boardroom-grey steel to primary-color rubber in seconds, matching the "channel-surfing" spirit the S01E02 concept is built around.

Movement: Caliber 80, Quietly Serious

Underneath the retro-television styling sits genuinely modern engineering: Mido's Caliber 80 automatic movement, built on a Nivachron™ balance spring for added resistance to shocks and magnetic fields, with an 80-hour power reserve — enough to sit unworn through a weekend and still be keeping accurate time on Monday morning.

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Caring for a PVD-Finished Case

PVD coatings are more scratch-resistant than standard polished steel, but not indestructible — clean with a soft microfiber cloth and mild soap and water, avoiding abrasive cloths or ultrasonic cleaners that can wear the coating over time. When swapping straps, handle the quick-change pins gently to avoid marking the case's PVD finish at the lug.

Final Thoughts

The Multifort TV Big Date S01E02 is a rare thing in watchmaking: a heritage reissue with a sense of humor. It takes a genuinely strange 1970s case shape, gives it a dial that looks like it's still buffering, and backs the whole bit with an 80-hour Caliber 80 movement that would hold its own in a far more serious watch. Whether you're drawn in by the retro-TV concept or the straight-up specs, this is a Swiss automatic that doesn't take itself too seriously — and is better for it.