Creating limited-edition timepieces based on celebrities and popular figures is nothing new in the luxury watch business, but few brands in the current market have embraced the concept as wholeheartedly or with as much variety as Oris. Over the past several years, the brand has amassed a dramatic collection of limited-edition designs celebrating notable persona [...]

While an increasing number of brands throughout the watch industry have been partnering with environmental conservation initiatives over the course of the past few years, few have made these efforts as central to their overall brand message as Oris. The independent marque has made efforts around the globe with various environmental partners, particularly focusing [...]

Swiss independent favorite Oris has a long and proud history of creating limited edition models to aid its ongoing crusade towards ocean conservation. These have covered a wide gamut of oceanic causes from ocean plastic removal to helping restore the population of the hammerhead shark, but one of Oris most frequent beneficiaries has been the Coral Restoration Fou [...]

While it may not be as prestigious or as visible as Geneva or Bienne, there may be no brand as connected to its hometown as Oris is to the small Swiss village of Holstein. In fact, the Oris name comes from a stream near the town itself. While the brand has certainly grown in the years since its 1904 founding, in some ways Oris has never lost its friendly, independent, sma [...]

With many of our friends in Europe heading back to work this week, and many parts of the United States showing signs that theres indeed a road map charting a course towards the light at the end of this tunnel, our twice-weekly Instagram Live show ABTW at HOME rambles on with two new guests whove both launched new watches in April and May and cant wait to join you on Instagram to answe [...]

Trade show season is here again, and while there may not be physical debut events to attend here in 2020, brands are still forging ahead with this years Watches and Wonders online. As part of this event, independent favorite Oris has announced a new addition to its Divers Sixty-Five dive watch lineup in conjunction with premium Japanese denim brand Momotaro: the Oris X Momotaro Divers [...]

One of Oris greatest strengths as a watchmaker in recent years is its ongoing effort to create a dive watch for every conceivable enthusiast niche. For everything from clean large diameter modern divers to ISO approved regulator dive watches to vintage inspired bronze cased dive chronographs, Oris has consumers covered, and as part of its 2020 novelties the brand further extends its Aqui [...]

If you havent looked at Oris Big Crown ProPilot watches in a while, it might be time to give the modern aviator timepiece collection a fresh glance. The very sporty Big Crown ProPilot now has dressier options which offer a brand new look and fashionable versatility to the otherwise straight-forward tool watch collection. Case in point is the Big Crown ProPilot [...]

Swiss Oris watches recently debuted a new limited-edition divers watch that is its first dive watch in solid gold, and the second timepiece produced in collaboration with the Coral Restoration Foundation charity organization (based in Key Largo, Florida). For the brand that markets itself as making real watches for real people, producing a solid go [...]

When it comes to the ongoing bronze watch trend, perhaps no other brand has done more to stoke the flames for enthusiasts than Oris. The marque has delivered some stunning entries into the segment over the past few years, including the limited-edition Carl Brashear chronograph and specialty versions of the fan-favorite Divers Sixty-Five. For its latest entry into [...]

Ive always appreciated Oris, having handled or worn most of its offerings at some point or another in my nearly five years of being in watch media. However, none of its watches captured my attention enough to compel me to do a review or hands-on. Thats been for no reason beyond the fact that there are so many quality watch journalists at and peer [...]

Mustaches and Baseball? Its not a new combination, but it rarely looks this good. On the diamond, famous names like Mike Schmidt, Rollie Fingers, and poor Bill Buckner were known for rocking a hairy upper lip, while 1980s TV screens were dominated by Tom Sellecks irrepressible Thomas Magnum, who wore a bushy stache and a De [...]

Swiss Oris does something really different for 2019 with the brand new Oris Big Crown ProPilot X collection that includes the new exclusive Calibre 15 movement. The first part of this news piece will talk about the watch industry context within which a watch like this is born, and then Ill proceed to discuss the watch itself. While this article does not includ [...]

At Baselworld 2014, Swiss Oris watches introduced the ProPilot Chronograph GMT as the newest member of its Big Crown ProPilot watch collection, My understanding is that, by 2015, the ProPilot Chronograph GMT 677 7699 was discontinued. Was the ProPilot Chronograph GMT a flop? Hardly. What happened, according to Oris, is that the movement inside the watch wa [...]

Combining a near replica-level of visual design authenticity with updated construction methods and technology at a fair price, Oriss Diver Sixty-Five series has grown in size and popularity since its release in 2015. While initially available in a middle-of-the-road 40mm-diameter case, Oris has expanded the collection several times to include a [...]

Oris has really found its groove with the Sixty-Five collection. It took me a while to get into the brand because I saw a lot of just-okay pieces that looked like homages to other brands. What the Sixty-Five collection did for me was create a blueprint in my mind of what an Oris is, and now the whole collection feels l [...]

One of the things I have always admired about Oris is its commitment to making the world a better place. Previously, weve seen the brand make the Oris Hammerhead Limited Edition Aquis, where a portion of the sales of each went to a preservation fund for the Hammerhead Shark. Weve also seen the release of the Oris Aquis Cli [...]

Few brands have a dedication to a cause like Oris does. For the past few years, Oris has been releasing a slew of limited edition dive watch models that support clean conservation of our oceans and waterways. Bringing the third member to the collection, Oris has announced the Great Barrier Reef III Aq [...]

The first new Oris watch for 2019 is this handsome and functional Oris ProDiver Dive Control Limited Edition timepiece. Once again working with their preferred Swiss commercial diver consultant, Oris has developed a well-specced diving instrument that also doubles as a handsome lifestyle watch with this years color theme being black and yellow (a personal favorite [...]

My primary attraction to watches has always generally focused on tool watches. I buy a lot of divers, I like pilots watches, and in my eyes, nothing beats a good chronograph. However, one of the purest forms of watch complication for my use remains a GMT (or a second-time-zoneCmore on this later) function. GMT watches have a lo [...]