This incredibly classy timepiece had a hand wound movement with a phenomenal power reserve of 10 days.
At its peak Oris employed over 800 staff creating over 1.2 million watches per year.Ī hint at the possibility of an astounding manufacture high-volume movement came in the shape of the in-house Calibre 110 in 2014 to celebrate, yes you’ve got it, Oris’ 110 th anniversary. This business structure was successful and by 1910 Oris was the largest company in the region. Their business model utilised the up to date industrial techniques of the time with the historical art of craftmanship, to create beautiful pocket and wrist watches with accurate and reliable movements. The name Oris was derived from the brook that ran close to the factory.
This remains home to the brand nearly 120 years later. watch factory in the German speaking town of Holstein, near to Basel. So, it was a brave move to buy the old Lohner & Co. Oris was founded in 1904 by Paul Cattin and Georges Christian, two watchmakers from what was considered the Swiss centre of excellence for horology at the time, Le Locle. However, prior to that, between their inception over 115 years ago, to the quartz crisis in the 1970s, Oris were a well-respected Swiss manufacture. Up until the Calibre 400, Oris were no longer at the forefront of the manufacture brands, having become incredibly successful in the £1000 to £2000 price range, mainly with the contemporary Aquis Diver and the re-issue of the Sixty Five diver.
The exceptional all new Calibre 400 from Orisįirst, a bit of history that both backs up the initial and subsequent statements above. However, if you were told that this class leading proprietary movement was to be housed in a case by an exponent of trusted 300m dive watches with ceramic bezels and beautiful detailing, I’m pretty sure you’d soon get to Oris. If you had to guess from the wealth of high end Swiss watch brands which one had just produced a brand new manufacture automatic movement with 5 day power reserve, anti-magnetic to 2250 gauss, 10 years service life and 10 years warranty I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be Oris.
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