ORIS – Bronze Diver Carl Brashear Limited Edition

ORIS – Divers Sixty-Five Bronze Diver Carl Brashear Limited Edition NEW

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A man of honour
Oris commemorates the life of Carl Brashear

Oris is extremely honoured to introduce its first bronze watch remembering the extraordinary life of Carl Brashear, the U.S. Navy’s first African American master diver.

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The Oris Carl Brashear Limited Edition is based on Oris’s hugely successful Divers Sixty-Five and celebrates a man who conquered not only challenges of race, but also of disability.  

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Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 as a 17-year-old, and despite facing discrimination on account of his race he graduated from the Navy’s diving programme in 1954. In 1966, he lost the lower part of his left leg in an accident during a mission to salvage a hydrogen bomb.

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After an exhausting period of rehabilitation, he became the U.S. Navy’s first amputee diver in 1968, and then qualified as a Master Diver in 1970, the first African American to do so.

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Carl Brasher graduated from the U.S. Navy Diving & Salvage School in 1954. 
At that time diving helmets were made of bronze

After a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy that lasted more than 30 years, Brashear retired in 1979. He died in 2006 aged 75. His extraordinary story was the inspiration for the 2000 film Men of Honour, in which Brashear was portrayed by Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr.

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The watch marking Brashear’s life and character is the first Oris watch to be made in bronze, a naturally aging material used in deep-sea diving helmets of the 1950s. It takes its aesthetic from the Oris Divers Sixty-Five, but at 42mm in diameter.

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The new Oris Carl Brashear Limited Edition commemorates Carl Brashear’s legendary achievements.

Bronze is initially bright and shiny, and then darkens as its copper content reacts with carbon dioxide and moisture. This means each of the limited run of 2,000 pieces will develop a unique patina over time – and a unique relationship with their owner.

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The unidirectional rotating bezel is also made of bronze, with a raised minute scale for tracking dive times, a look that recalls a number of diver’s watches in the Oris archive.

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The stainless steel case back of the Oris Carl Brashear Limited Edition shows Brashear’s diver helmet with his claim “It’s not a sin to get knocked down, it’s a sin to stay down”.

The stainless steel case back shows Brashear’s helmet and his very personal claim. Under the watch’s dark blue dial is an automatic mechanical movement, and the watch is water-resistant to 100 metres.

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Product Features

Model: Oris Divers Bronze Diver Carl Brashear Limited Edition  to 2,000 pieces

Reference No. 733 7720 3185 LS   Dark brown leather strap

Movement
Automatic movement Oris Cal. 733 (based on Sellita SW 200-1)
With date window at 6 o’clock
Dimensions:    Ø 25.60 mm, 11 1/2’’’
Functions 
Centre hands for hours, minutes and seconds, date window,
Instantaneous date, date corrector, fine timing device and stop-second
Winding:    Automatic winding, bi-directionally rotating red rotor
Power-Reserve:    38 hrs
Vibrations:    28’800 A/h, 4 Hz
Jewels:    26
Case
Material:    Multi-piece bronze case and screw-in bronze crown
Size:   Ø 42.00 mm
Top Glass:     Sapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
Case Back:    Stainless steel, screwed, special engravings and printings
Operating Devices:    Stainless steel screw-in security crown
Water Resistance:    10 bar (100 m)
Interhorn Width:    24 mm
Diver’s unidirectional revolving bronze top ring with 60-minute timer.
Zero marker filled with Super-LumiNova®
Screw-in case back with special illustration and engraved limitation number
Crystal
Bubble-curved sapphire crystal domed on both sides and with anti-reflective coating inside
Dial
Dark blue, curved dial with applied rose gold plated indices, filled with Super-LumiNova®.
Hour, minute and second hands rose gold plated and filled with Super-LumiNova®
Strap/Bracelet
Dark brown leather strap with bronze pin buckleExtras
Special box, certificate, limited to 2000 

Price
Swiss Retail Price: CHF 2,600.00
Edition
Limited edition 2000 pieces

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