Friday, January 26, 2018

ORIS – Aquis Clipperton Edition


















ORISAQUIS Clipperton Steel 43.5mm Limited Edition

To protect and conserve

Oris continues its mission to conserve the world’s oceans and to bring change for the better with the Oris Clipperton Limited Edition

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It’s widely accepted that more people have scaled Mount Everest than have stepped foot on Clipperton Island, the world’s most isolated landmass. The uninhabited atoll sits in a zone known as the ETP, or the Eastern Tropical Zone, approximately 1,100km south of the tip of the Baja Peninsula, on the west coast of Mexico. The nearest landmass is 945km away.

But despite its remoteness, the French-owned island and its unique ecosystem are under threat because of illegal commercial fishing and pollution. Its waters are a critical migration corridor for a number of threatened species of shark and pelagic, and several endemic species, on land and underwater, call it home.

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The Clipperton Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Eastern Tropical Zone with a unique ecosystem, which is under threat because of illegal commercial fishing and pollution

Earlier this year, Oris announced its sponsorship of The Clipperton Expedition, a ‘citizen-science’ expedition led by N2Pix, specialized in underwater imagery and expeditions owned by Canadians Michel Labrecque and Julie Ouimet. The Oris-sponsored expedition took a group of scientists and conservationists on the arduous 80-hour journey to Clipperton (it’s only accessible by boat) to raise awareness of the vital role Clipperton plays in the migration patterns of these species, to gather data to help develop existing shark migration theories, and to effect lasting change that will preserve Clipperton’s ecosystem.

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Oris is now following this up with the launch of the Oris Clipperton Limited Edition, a diver’s watch based on the brand’s Aquis series. A percentage of funds raised by sales of the 2,000 pieces produced will go towards the protection of our ocean in upcoming initiatives. Last year, a French ministerial order created a 12-nautical-mile Marine Protected Area (MPA) around the atoll, but the ambition is to secure an extension of the MPA to 100 nautical miles and UNESCO World Heritage Site status for Clipperton.

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The Oris Clipperton Limited Edition is a fitting tribute to the atoll and to the work of Michel Labrecque and Julie Ouimet. It has a gradient blue dial designed to reflect the colour of the water around the atoll, which drops to 60 metres deep just offshore. The 43.5mm stainless steel case is water-resistant to 30 bar (300 metres) and has a screwed case back embossed with an outline of Clipperton Island and its coordinates. Oris Clipperton is a registered trade mark.

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Beyond these features, the watch has the same roster of high-performance functions the Oris Aquis is renowned for. Its automatic movement provides it  with a date function  and  a sweeping seconds hand, which Oris has finished with a ‘lollipop’ filled with luminescent Super-LumiNova®. This is a significant detail – to qualify for diver’s watch status, a watch must have a display that shows the running of the watch to indicate to the wearer that their dive timing is accurate. The watch also has a uni-directional rotating bezel with a black ceramic insert with a 60-minute counter.

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The Oris Clipperton Limited Edition is the next step in Oris’s commitment to conserving the world’s oceans and to bringing change for the better. It follows limited edition watches made in partnership with the Coral Restoration Foundation and shark conservation programme Pelagios Kakunjá.

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The Oris Clipperton Limited Edition’s presentation box is made using environmentally friendly regenerative algae. Inside it has a Clipperton Island insignia

We’re proud of our Swiss watchmaking traditions, as well as the quality and integrity of our watches,’ says Oris Chairman Ulrich W. Herzog. ‘But we’re just as, if not more passionate about bringing change to make our world better, and in particular to conserving the world’s oceans. We have been making diver’s watches since the 1960s and have deep links with the underwater world – the Clipperton Limited Edition reflects our commitment to it, and becomes a significant part of our  
#changeforthebetter vision.’

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Technical Specifications

Collection: Aquis
Model: Oris Clipperton Limited Edition to 2,000 pieces

Reference No. 01 733 7730 4185 MB  Steel

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 stainless steel, case ceramic minutes scale top ring
Size:   Ø 43.50 mm, 1.713 inches
Top Glass:    Sapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
Case Back:   Screwed stainless steel case back with special engravings and engraved limited edition number
Operating Devices:    Stainless steel screw-in security crown
Water Resistance:    30 bar (300 m)
Interhorn Width:    24 mm
Diver’s uni-directional rotating bezel with black ceramic insert with 60-minute timer and zero marker filled with Super-LumiNova® 
Crystal
Sapphire crystal domed on both sides with inner anti-reflective coating
Dial
Gradient blue dial with applied indices filled with Super-LumiNova®.
Nickel hour and minute hands filled with Super-LumiNova®.
Nickel central seconds hand with ‘lollipop’ insert filled with Super-LumiNova®
Strap/Bracelet
Black rubber strap with Oris-developed safety anchor and quick-adjust, sliding-sledge folding clasp with extension.
Alternatively available with stainless steel bracelet with quick-adjust, sliding-sledge folding clasp with extension
Interhorn Width: 24 mm

Extras
Special presentation box is made using environmentally friendly regenerative algae.
Inside it has a Clipperton Island insignia, certificate, limited to 2000

Price Swiss Retail Price: CHF 1,950.00
 
Edition
Limited edition 2000 pieces

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URWERK – UR 210 ROYAL HAWK Black Platinum Edition


URWERKUR-SATELLITE UR 210 ROYAL HAWK Black Platinum & Ttitanium Edition

UR-SATELLITE
ROYAL HAWK Black Platinum

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Once they’ve seen it in action, nobody can deny the appeal of the UR-210. To appreciate it fully you have to keep your eyes glued to the dial as the minutes hand approaches the end of its hour. Don’t blink, because if you do, you’ll miss a display of controlled energy in the lighting return of the retrograde hand as it snaps back to the start of the next hour.

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Today URWERK presents the extraordinary UR-210 in a black platinum version, in keeping with a tradition held since its foundation. The Black Platinum model is the most select and exclusive of the UR210s, and as such, irresistible.

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It’s a few seconds to the hour and time holds its breath as it prepares to return the minutes to their starting point. The action is too swift for the eye but you hear the sharp click that announces the arrival of the hand exactly on zero.

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The spectacular combination of the revolving satellite complication and retrograde minutes is seen nowhere as in the UR-210. The prominent three-dimensional minutes hand acts as a high-tech cowling that encloses the hours and carries them in turn smoothly across the scale of minutes. The lightning speed of the flyback— less than a tenth of a second — depends on three key factors:

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-    The central hub ensures that the mechanism remains stable. Turning on ruby bearings, it constitutes the rock on which the entire complication rests. A cylindrical spring of the type used in marine chronometers along the shaft accumulates the power for the retrograde action.

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-    The unusual minutes hand that acts as a cowling to transport the hours has equally uncommon dimensions, machined to the hundredth of a millimetre. The 22.29mm long metal structure, with a width of 8.03mm and a height of 7.3mm, weighs only 0.302 grams. Machined in aluminium, it is perfectly balanced by a brass counterweight.

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-    A double coaxial cam in the shape of a star governs the retrograde action. Its gearing and then its rotation determine the trajectory of the minutes hand.

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The case of the UR-210 black Platinum appears to have reacted to the force of the fly-back minutes, developing a series of regular shock waves radiating from the dial. An allegory has become reality.

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  “We’ve added an extra tactile dimension to a 3D watch,” explains Martin Frei, URWERK’s co-founder and designer “The rotations of the hours satellites are replicated in the metal of the case. As if we had created a shockwave powerful enough to displace matter and bend platinum. The deep furrowed arcs also accentuate the smart hexagonal design of the case.”

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The dial of the UR-210 also features a conventional power-reserve indicator at 1 o'clock. Opposite, at 11 o'clock, what appears to be a similar indication is in fact very different because it shows the winding efficiency during the last two hours.

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This device — a world first — calculates the energy flow, or the ratio between the energy generated and the energy consumed. Contrary to a torque indicator, it doesn’t depend on the tension of the barrel spring.

Are you sitting comfortably, not moving much? Then the hand of the winding efficiency indicator will move inexorably towards the red sector. When it’s workout time, it will move towards the green, showing more energy is being created than consumed.

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Knowing the winding efficiency of your watch enables you to adjust the winding rate. If your UR-210 shows that not enough energy is being generated, you can turn the winding rate adjuster on the back of the watch to FULL. The winding rotor then becomes sensitive to the slightest motion, converting it into pure energy.

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The rotor is connected to a turbine that ensures an optimum winding rate while dampening shocks. If your activity creates too much energy, turning the adjusting wheel to REDUCED absorbs some of that energy to prevent unnecessary stress on the mechanism. A turbine mounted on ruby bearings starts to spin, acting as an air compressor and creating a resistance that slows down the winding rotor. In the STOP position, the self-winding system is disengaged and the UR-210 becomes a manually wound watch.

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  “With this model, URWERK reaches a new goal,” concludes Felix Baumgartner, master watchmaker and co-founder of the brand. “At the same time it opens a new chapter in the evolution of our complicated mechanisms. They now go beyond an original way of measuring a universal phenomenon to initiating a dialogue between the watch and its owner. The UR-210 indicates personal measurements, derived from you and no-one else.

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Technical Specifications

Collection: UR-SATELLITE

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  Model: UR-210 ROYAL HAWK Black Platinum
Case
Material: Platinum and titanium with black DLC coating.
Dimensions: Length 53.6mm; width 43.8mm; height 17.8mm
Glass:    Sapphire crystal
Water resistance: Pressure tested to 3ATM/30m

Movement
Calibre:    UR-7.10
Jewels:    51
Escapement:    Swiss lever
Balance wheel:    Monometallic
Frequency:    28,800v/h, 4Hz
Balance spring:    Flat
Power source:    Single barrel
Power reserve:     39 hours
Winding:    Automatic winding dampened by turbines
Materials:    Baseplate in ARCAP P40; three-dimensional minutes hand in aluminium with brass counterweight; central cylindrical spring in steel; hours satellites in aluminium; central carrousel and screws in grade 5 titanium. 
Finishes:    Sanded and circular-grained baseplate; satin finished and diamond-polished satellites; chamfered and polished screw heads.
Indications   
Patented satellite complication showing wandering hours; three-dimensional minutes hand;
power-reserve indicator; patented winding efficiency indicator.
Hours, minutes and markers painted in Super-LumiNova®
Controls
Two-position winding and setting crown
Winding regulator on the back

Limited Edition  to only 25 pieces

Price:    CHF 155’00.00 (Swiss francs / no tax added)


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Ms Yacine Sar
Telephone: +41 22 900 2027
Mobile : +41 79 834 46 65
press@urwerk.com
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