News · Mido

A dive table under a world time bezel

Mido's Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer puts a concentric decompression scale in the middle of the dial and twenty-four cities around the edge. CHF 1,270, with a mesh bracelet and a rubber strap in the box.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 9 August 2026

The Mido Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer, a steel dive watch with a world time city bezel and a dial printed with concentric coloured decompression rings, on a blue rubber strap — Image: Mido

Look at the dial of the Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer and you see a stack of concentric coloured rings before you see the time, pink and yellow and blue and green, printed in the middle of a dive watch. Mido has put a decompression scale back on a dial and then wrapped a world time bezel around it, which is a combination nobody else is daft enough to be selling.

Reference M026.829.17.041.00, 40.5mm, and it went up on Mido's own site this week.

A dive table in the middle and twenty-four cities around the outside

The bezel carries the usual world time roll call, New York through London, Geneva, Moscow, Dubai, Bangkok, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland and back around to Los Angeles, read against a 24-hour ring on the dial edge. Inside that sits the decompression graphic, which is the part that gives the watch its name and its face.

It's busy. There's no honest way to call a dial with this much printing on it restrained, and Mido has clearly decided it doesn't want to be. Whether you love it or not comes down to whether you see that centre as dive history or as clutter. I see history, and I'd wear it.

The caseback of the Mido Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer, engraved with a starfish and the wording for 20 bar water resistance and a screw-down crown — Image: Mido

Two hundred metres, and eighty hours from the Caliber 80

The case is 316L stainless steel, water resistant to 20 bar, which is 200 metres, with a screw-down crown. The crystal is sapphire with a single anti-reflective coating on the underside. Inside is Mido's Caliber 80, the automatic that gives the family its name and runs to roughly 80 hours of reserve.

Eighty hours is the quiet reason to buy a Mido. Take it off on Friday night and it's still going on Monday morning, which almost nothing else at the price manages.

The Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer shown with both its blue rubber strap and its steel mesh bracelet — A mesh bracelet and a blue rubber strap, both in the box. Image: Mido

It comes with the mesh and the rubber

This is a special edition and the extra in the box is a second strap. You get a steel mesh bracelet and a blue textured rubber strap, and it looks like a different watch on each. On mesh it's a 1960s tool watch. On rubber it's a modern one. Two straps in the box beats most of what brands call a special edition.

Twelve hundred and seventy francs, and nothing yet for Australia

Mido lists it at CHF 1,270 on its international site. It isn't in Mido's Australian catalogue, so there's no Australian price to give you, and Mido's Australian site currently bounces the reference back to its homepage.

A worldtimer with a dive table on the dial and eighty hours of reserve, for less than most dress watches with neither. Mido has been quietly good value for years. This is the same argument, shouted.