ORIS – FULL STEEL Holstein Edition

 

ORIS – FULL STEEL Holstein Worldtimer Blue Calibre 690 Automatic Edition 2022

To mark their birthday on 1 June, Oris introduces the Hölstein Edition 2022, a watch that revives an icon, the Full Steel. It captures the spirit of the 1990s, and a groundbreaking mechanical movement – Oris Hölstein Edition 2022.

The path to Hölstein

Oris was founded in 1904 in the Swiss village of Hölstein, not far from Basel, but a long way from watchmaking’s traditional heartland. It’s still shaping who we are today.

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Whether we like it or not, we’re shaped by where we come from. The country and city, town or village where we’re born will always be part of us. Oris came into being on 1 June 1904 in the remote Swiss village of Hölstein. For exactly 118 years, this beautiful little place has been shaping us, guiding us, even.

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Oris Nature Waldenburg Valley Forest

How? To understand the impact Hölstein has on us today, we have to go back to our founding year. Oris was the vision of two brave, pioneering watchmakers from Le Locle, deep in the French-speaking heartland of Swiss watchmaking. Their concept was to embrace the industrial practices that by then were fuelling the mighty Swiss German-speaking city of Basel. By bringing their watchmaking skills and romantic sensibilities together with state-of-the-art, highly efficient manufacturing, they believed they would be able to deliver high-quality Swiss Made watches to the world citizens of the day.

This was an unconventional step. Oris, named after a nearby brook, had a path of its own. It would go its own way. 

“O ris, named after a  nearby brook, had  a path of its own. It  would go its own wa

There was more to it. Hölstein was surrounded by the Waldenburg Valley, a spectacularly beautiful area. Its people would come to work at Oris, and those who came from Basel and beyond would soon come to appreciate its power to inspire them.

Today, 118 years on, our founder’s vision remains; the valley continues to inspire us (and motivate our ambitious sustainability strategy); and our factory is still on the same site. All here in Hölstein. Our home. For the third year, we celebrate it with a limited edition watch for the global Oris community.

Full marks

The Hölstein Edition 2022 revives the Full Steel of the late 1990s, a landmark mechanical watch

The watch celebrating our 118th birthday is inspired by the Full Steel Worldtimer, a stainless steel sports watch introduced in 1998 that picked up on an extraordinary movement Oris had debuted a year before.

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01 690 7780 4085-Set – Hölstein Edition 2022

Known as the Worldtimer, Oris Calibre 690 was a world first. Using plus and minus buttons on the case flanks, it could adjust local time in one-hour jumps either forwards or backwards, with home time shown on a counter at 3 o’clock. Even more impressively, as the time moved past midnight in either direction, the date would change, too.

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The late 1990s was an exciting time for Oris. The company was resurgent after the trials of the Quartz Crisis, which put hundreds of Swiss watchmaking companies out of business in the 1970s and 1980s, and was innovating new mechanical functions with real-world applications. The Full Steel Worldtimer was a landmark not just for Oris, but for Swiss watchmaking.

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The Hölstein Edition 2022, limited to 250 pieces, is a faithful revival of this Oris icon. It has a 36.5mm stainless steel case, a three-link stainless steel bracelet and a blue dial with the famous red plus and minus symbols. And it’s powered by Oris Calibre 690.

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Oris Portrait Rolf Studer, Co-CEO, wears the Oris Aquis Date Calibre 400 with reference 01 400 7763 4135-07 8 24 09PEB

Spirit of the 1990s

Oris Co-CEO Rolf Studer talks about the Hölstein Edition 2022, and why the watch and the decade behind it inspire him

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Rolf, while we have you – it’s been a significant couple of years for watchmaking. How are things at Oris?

Last year was a very strong year for Oris as we built on our Calibre 400 Series story with some really strong new releases. Calibre 400 was created for today’s world citizen, and it’s working! 

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We also became climate neutral and released our first sustainability report, part of our ongoing Change for the Better mission. The last year also marked our debut at Watches and Wonders in Geneva.

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It was a huge success for us and our ‘piazza concept’, an open, inclusive, informal forum, gave us an opportunity to showcase our values on the international stage for the first time in three years. We believe our job is to cheer people up and it was great to see the sparkle in people’s eyes talking about Oris and mechanical watches. Thanks to everyone who came to visit us and share the joy.

So, the Hölstein Edition 2022. This is the third in the series. Remind us of the thinking behind these watches…

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The main thing is that they’re linked to our birthday – the company was founded on 1 June 1904. This place and this valley define who we are, so if you like they’re a gift to ourselves, but also to our community. Hölstein Editions always have a quirk, and they always tell our story. For example, they’re the only pieces that feature the Oris Bear. The Oris Bear is the medium of the Oris story. He’s a symbol of warmth, of joy and of going your own way.

How have previous Hölstein Editions been received by your customers?

In a short time, they’ve become a part of our yearly release plan and people now look forward to them. Honestly, it’s a challenge to find something that meets the criteria we set ourselves for the Hölstein Editions. They have to express our story and how we value our whole community. As before, this year’s is not only a boutique option – people all over the world can buy this watch through their official retailer, even though it’s basically a boutique edition. And they can choose their limited-edition number on our website. We try to give Oris enthusiasts an experience we would enjoy ourselves.

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Hölstein Edition 2022 visual 

Oris isn’t known for short-run editions. Why produce the Hölstein Editions in such low volumes, just 250 pieces?

It’s a good question, because we could sell more, and people will know that we talk a lot about being inclusive – so shouldn’t everyone have access to one of these watches? As I explained, they are available to anyone, albeit only 250 people. But then we also want to do a few really special things for the Oris community. You could say the Hölstein Editions give access to the heart of pure Oris.

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The Hölstein Edition 2022 takes a new direction. Why go back to the Full Steel?

I have to admit that some of it’s personal. The Full Steel Worldtimer was always one of my favourite watches, long before I worked at Oris, and I think it’s a much underrated design. I also love the movement – a watchmaking landmark. Until Calibre 110 in 2014, Calibre 690 was our most complicated movement, which is a special legacy. In the true Oris sense, it’s functional, useful, beautiful and only mechanical. And there’s something about the Full Steel that captures the experimental spirit of 1990s designs. 

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Oris - Aviation watches BC4 Flight Timer Automatic

 Think of the Lamborghini Diablo and it just makes you smile. The Full Steel is the same. And the 1990s was a much freer time than today. We weren’t so connected and we had much more reasonable expectations of each other, work and how we build societies. We’ve lost so much of that, and we wanted a watch that would embody these values – Oris values.

Is the Full Steel back for good?

It’s a single piece and the idea isn’t to bring it back. But never say never… 

The Oris Bear returns to the case back – what do your customers make of him?

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He’s a magnet for people – how can you not love the Oris Bear? He makes people smile, which is our customer purpose, and the perfect canvas for any kind of emotion. And there’s no status with a bear. Just warmth.

Oris has been in Hölstein since 1904. How does that inform your thinking as Co-CEO?

It creates a strong emotion for me. I’m always impressed upon and inspired by the rigour that my predecessors applied in managing Oris, keeping it alive through difficult times and always working for the brand and not for themselves. That’s a legacy I want to continue.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection: FULL STEEL

Model:   FULL STEEL Holstein Calibre 690

Based on the ‘Full Steel’ of the late 1990s and powered by Oris’s Calibre 690 Worldtimer, the 250-piece Hölstein Edition 2022 is a celebration of the rich history and joyful spirit that define Oris

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 Ref.: 01 690 7780 4085-Set  -

Movement
 Number Oris 690
 Dimensions Ø 25.60 mm, 11 1/2’’’
 Power-Reserve 38 hrs
Vibrations 28’800 A/h, 4 Hz
Jewels 30

Functions
        Centre hands for hours and minutes with forward or backward one-hour setting device

• Small seconds at 9 o’clock, date at 6 o’clock
• Home time hour and minute hands with day/night indicator at 3 o’clock
• Instantaneous date
• Date corrector

        fine timing device and stop-second Winding Automatic winding,
        bi-directionally rotating red rotor
    Power reserve 38 hours
Case
    Multi-piece stainless steel case
    Size: 36.50 mm (1.437 inches)
Dial
Dial: Blue
    Luminous material Indices, numbers and hands with Super-LumiNova®
    Top glass: Sapphire, flat, anti-reflective coating inside
    Case back: Stainless steel, screwed, special engravings
    Operating devices: Stainless steel screw-in security crown and pushers
    Water-resistance: 5 bar
Bracelet
    Multi-piece stainless steel metal bracelet with folding clasp

 Limited edition 250 pieces,  each watch is delivered in a special wooden presentation box

⚠️ Warranty Extended to 2 years with MyOris sign-up. nd extend your warranty for free to 3-year years.

Retail
Availability June  2022

Swiss Retail price CHF 4’000
 
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ORIS – Big Crown Pointer Date Calibre 403

 

ORIS – Big Crown Pointer Date Calibre 400 Blue Automatic  2021

Higher point

 Introducing the Big Crown Pointer Date Calibre 403. A new chapter in the story of an icon begins

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Introduced in 1938, the Big Crown Pointer Date has been in constant production for more than 80 years. The original had two distinctive features – an oversized crown so the watch could be operated by gloved airmen, and a central hand that pointed to a date scale around the edge of the dial. The form has become Oris’s signature design, a Swiss watchmaking icon, and a byword for beautiful, functional, timeless watchmaking.

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Now, the Big Crown Pointer Date is getting one of the most significant upgrades in its illustrious history. The updated 38 mm model carries Calibre 403, one of the Oris Calibre 400 Series of high-performance in-house engineered automatics.

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Calibre 403 first appeared in the 250-piece Hölstein Edition 2021, but this is the first time it features in a collection piece. It provides the watch with small seconds and pointer date complications.

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As with every movement in theCalibre 400 Series, Calibre 403 has elevated levels of anti-magnetism, a five-day power reserve and a 10-year warranty. It’s also accurate to -3/+5 seconds a day – which would comfortably pass chronometer testing – and has 10-year recommended service intervals.

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“People who love Oris have been asking for this,” says Oris Co-CEO Rolf Studer. “It’s a privilege as Oris guardians to begin this new chapter in the Big Crown story.”

 The new standard

All Oris watches powered by the new Calibre 400 Series of automatics make three real-world performance promises:

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•     Anti-magnetic: Calibre 400 Series movements have more than 30 anti-magnetic parts and exceed the norms of the ISO 764 enhanced anti-magnetic standard.
•     Five-day power reserve: For many reasons, a mechanical watch may not be worn every day. Calibre 400 Series movements have a five-day power reserve, so they’re ready for longer.
•     10-year warranty: Reliability comes as standard with any Oris watch carrying a Calibre 400 Series movement. Owners who register with MyOris activate a 10-year guarantee.

Natural selection

The Oris Movement Creation Programme continues, inspired by the needs of today’s world citizen, engineered in our home of Hölstein. 

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The story of Oris the watch and movement creator began in 1904. That was when the company was established, here in the beautiful village of Hölstein in the Waldenburg Valley. Oris is in northwest Switzerland, some way from the cradle of Swiss watchmaking. The choice of location was deliberate – and it’s always helped us go our own way.

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Our founders were watchmakers, but also pioneers. Their vision was to marry handcraftsmanship and industrialised watchmaking to produce high-quality watches for the citoyen of the day. Over the next 75 years, Oris would create almost 300 mechanical movements, pushing boundaries while never losing sight of the founders’ philosophy.

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When the hand-wound Calibre 110 was introduced in 2014, it kickstarted the new Oris Movement Creation Programme. Since then, there have been eight further unique calibres, all engineered in-house.

Our most recent belong to the Calibre 400 Series. These automatics have elevated levels of anti-magnetism, five-day power reserves and 10-year warranties. They have set the new standard for Swiss Made automatics.

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Those game-changing specifications were determined and delivered by our in-house teams of engineers and watchmakers, who spent five years creating the Calibre 400 Series, always with the founders’ vision as their template.

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The result is that every movement in the Calibre 400 Series is designed to suit the lifestyles of today’s world citizens. Calibre 400 is the base automatic with three hands and a date; Calibre 401 adds a small seconds; and Calibre 403 revives Oris’s signature combination of complications, a small seconds and a pointer date.

 Calibre - 400

Oris Calibre 400 sets The New Standard in mechanical watchmaking. Conceived  entirely in-house by the independent Swiss watch company’s skilled engineers, it has a  five-day power reserve, elevated levels of anti-magnetism, and comes with a 10-year  warranty and 10-year recommended service intervals. Here’s how it works.

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Five-day power reserve
When a standard mechanical watch is laid down for a day or two, it will stop as the power reserve runs down. Calibre 400 has a five-day power reserve, so it’ll still be running if it’s not been worn between, say,

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Thursday and Tuesday. It delivers this longer period of use via twin barrels, both of which house an extended mainspring, each long enough to store two-and-a-half days of power.
 
A more stable rotor system
One of Oris’s fundamental ambitions with Calibre 400 was to eliminate problems before they occur. Oris’s engineers identified that one of the most frequent issues with automatic mechanical movements concerns the ball-bearing system that allows the free-spinning oscillating weight (or rotor) to rotate.

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This is a critical element of an automatic watch – as the rotor spins, it generates power that’s stored in the mainspring, which is housed in the barrel. So we removed the ball bearing altogether and replaced it with a low-friction slide bearing system, in which a metal stud runs through a lubricated sleeve.

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This is much less complex, highly efficient, and involves far less wear and tear, making it less prone to breakdowns.
 
10-year warranty and recommended service intervals  
Oris is so confident in the performance of the advanced technologies integrated into Calibre 400 that we are offering a 10-year warranty on all Oris watches powered by the new movement once
registered with MyOris.

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In addition, Oris is also  proposing 10-year recommended service intervals on Calibre 400 watches. This means that barring accidental damage or water-resistance checks, a Calibre 400 watch won’t need servicing until 2030 at the earliest. This is The New Standard. 

“We’re fortunate to have this design. People know and love it. Updating it is a big challenge” Lukas Bühlmann discusses the process of reworking an 80-year-old design icon

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“The question of how our founders would create watches today guides us,” says Rolf Studer. “Like them, we want Oris watches to be high-performing, industrially produced and beautiful, but above all, to make sense. We call it the luxury of common sense. Our new Big Crown Pointer Date Calibre 403 is the epitome of this philosophy.”

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection: BIG CROWN

Model:  Big Crown Pointer Date Calibre 403

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Ref. No. 01 403 7776 4065-07 5 19 11 – Big Crown Calibre 403

An icon reborn. The Big Crown Pointer Date has been in constant production since 1938. For the first time, it’s now equipped with Oris Calibre 403, an in-house automatic with elevated levels of anti-magnetism, a five-day power reserve and a 10-year warranty.

In detail

Case
Big Crown, Stainless steel
Material Multi-piece stainless steel case
Size 38.00 mm, 1.496 inches
Top Glass Sapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
Case Back Stainless steel, screwed, see-through sapphire glass
Operating Devices Stainless steel screw-in security crown
Water Resistance 5 bar
Interhorn Width 19 mm
Dial
Blue
Luminous material: Indices and numbers printed with Super-LumiNova®, hands filled with Super-LumiNova®
Top glass: Sapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
Strap:  Black leather
Material Black leather strap, stainless steel buckle
Movement
Number: Oris Calibre 403
Functions: Centre hands for hours, minutes and date, small seconds at 6 o’clock, fine timing device and stop-second
Accuracy: -3/+5 seconds a day (within COSC tolerances)
Extra features: Highly anti-magnetic
Winding: Automatic
Power reserve: 120 hours

⚠️ Warranty Extended to 10 years with MyOris sign-up. Applies to watch and movement. 10-year recommended service intervals, five-year recommended water-resistance check

Retail
Availability November  2021 

Swiss Retail price CHF 3’100
 
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🟦 The Oris Guarantee  
Oris’s engineers developed Calibre 400 to meet the demands of today’s watch wearer. It makes three key performance promises

🔳 Anti-magnetic
Calibre 400 has more than 30 antimagnetic components and exceeds the norms required  by the ISO 764 enhanced antimagnetic standard.
 
🟩 Five-day power reserve
For many reasons, you may not wear a mechanical watch every day. Calibre 400 has a five-day power reserve so it’s ready to go when you are.

🟥 A 10-year warranty
A modern luxury watch should be reliable. Any Oris watch carrying Calibre 400 is guaranteed for 10 years when you register it at MyOris.

 
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ORIS – Diver AQUIS Depth Gauge

ORIS – DIVING AQUIS Depth Gauge 45,8mm Stainless steel - 2021

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 Oris is proud to announce the second generation Aquis Depth Gauge one of the world’s most innovative and most distinctive high performance diver’s watches.

Back into the deep

Known affectionately as ‘the watch with a hole’, the Aquis Depth Gauge uses the scientific principles of the Boyle-Mariotte Law to create a gauge that clearly measures depth during a dive 

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The patented system works by allowing water through a hole cutint o the sapphire crystal at 12 o’clock and into a channel milled around the outer edge of the crystal. 

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This creates a watermark that corresponds to a gauge clearly indicated in yellow on the dial.

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The new model captures and refines the spirit and functional ity of the original, delivering even higher performance when it really matters deep below the ocean surface.

The new Aquis Depth Gauge has three key improvements:

1️⃣. Depth gauge system
In the new watch, the process used to mill the channel into the out er edge of the crystal has been refined so the accuracy and legibility of the gauge are increased. 

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2️⃣. Metres to feet conversion chart

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The case back has been re engineered so the metres to feet conversion chart is always set at 90 degrees to the 12 o’cloc k position.

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For divers relying on the chart on a regular basis, this will greatly enhance their experience of the watch.

3️⃣. Oris’s new patented Quick Strap Change system

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Owners can now switch the stainless steel metal bracelet and ru bber strap quickly, safely and securely without needing a tool or a visit to a jeweller. 

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Technical Specifications

Collection: DIVING  

Model: Oris AQUIS Depth Gauge

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Ref. No. 01 733 7755 4154-Set MB

Case
Material: Multi-piece stainless steel case, uni-directional rotating bezel with ceramic insert
Size: 45.80 mm, 1.803 inches
Top Glass: Sapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
Case back: steel, screwed, engraved with metres-to-feet conversion chart
Operating Devices: Stainless steel screw-in security crown
Water Resistance: 50 bar/500 m
Outerhorn Width: 24 mm
Movement
Automatic movement Oris 733, based on Sellita SW 200-1,
Dimensions: Ø 25.60 mm, 11 1/2’’’
Winding: Automatic winding, with red rotor
Power-Reserve: 38 hours
Vibrations: 4 Hz (28’800 A/h)
Jewels: 26
Functions
Centre hands for hours, minutes and seconds, date window,
instantaneous date, date corrector, fine timing device and stop-second
Dial
Design: Black
Luminous Material: Indices and hands Super-LumiNova® BG W9
Indices: Applied
Bracelet
Stainless steel metal bracelet or black rubber strap,
both with Oris-patented Quick Strap Change system and Oris-developed
folding security clasp with extension and safety anchor systems

Availability
May 2021

Swiss retail price
CHF 3,700 MB, 3’600 RS
Presented in a waterproof Peli case diving box


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