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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