ORIS – Motor Sport Williams Chronograph Carbon Fibre Extreme NEW
Light speed
Oris uses new technology for its first
lightweight carbon fibre watch
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Oris is proud to announce one of the most innovative, technically
advanced watches in the company’s history – the Oris Williams
Chronograph Carbon Fibre Extreme. It is made using an Oris-patented
manufacturing technique never before seen in watchmaking.
The watch’s case is made of carbon fibre and titanium, but not just any
carbon fibre.
Oris has developed and patented a carbon fibre
manufacturing technique derived from processes used by
Oris’s
long-standing
Formula 1 partner
Williams and never before seen in
watchmaking.
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Oris’s technique has been designed to exploit the full potential of
carbon fibre, and it delivers three key benefits. The first two are
rigidity and water-tightness. In most carbon fibre watches, these can
only be achieved by adding in extra components such as metal
reinforcements or a metal ‘containers’, but
Oris’s solution bypasses the
need for these. The third is in post-production. Processing carbon
fibre after it has been moulded and hardened is labour-intensive and
costly, but the
Oris technique overcomes this.
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To make this unique, high-performance carbon fibre composite, sheets of
woven carbon fibre reinforced polymer are layered manually in individual
moulds in two steps and then twice hardened under five bar of pressure
at
130°C in special ovens. The use of fibre waves rather than shreds
ensures the material is solid, with no hollow spaces. Each watch-case
middle part is individually made by hand.
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The process is so sophisticated that it delivers a completed case shape
and finished surface. The titanium case back and sapphire crystal can be
mounted straight onto it, without further machining, special gaskets or
‘containers’. In fact, the only additional processes required are to
mill off any redundant material, and to mill the holes for the crown,
chronograph pushers and the bracelet.
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Oris has developed this material using knowledge shared with the
Williams Formula 1 team, with whom it first partnered in
2003. Carbon
fibre polymers are used wherever a high strength-to weight ratio is
required, as in a racing car’s monocoque or steering wheel. It is five
times lighter and twice as stable as stainless steel.
Oris has used it
in the middle part of the
Williams Chronograph Carbon Fibre Extreme
multi-piece case. The part weighs just 7.2 grams.
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Completing the
Oris Williams Chronograph Carbon Fibre Extreme case are
polished, black-DLC-coated titanium elements, including the bezel,
crown, push buttons and screw-down case back. The watch is fuelled by
Oris Calibre 674, a modified version of
ETA’s ultra-reliable
7750
calibre. This gives it three counters, one for small seconds, and hour
and minute chronograph counters.
Williams blue on the chronograph hands
and counters completes the watch’s sporty design language.
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The
Oris Williams Chronograph Carbon Fibre Extreme will be launched in
June
2016 for
CHF 4,100, a reasonable price that reflects
Oris’s ‘real
watches for real people’ philosophy of delivering innovative, reasonably
priced, Swiss Made watches.
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Technical Specifications
Oris Williams Chronograph Carbon Fibre Extreme
Ref.
No. 01 674 7725 8764 RS, Ø 44.00mm
Movement
Automatic movement
Oris Cal.
674,
based on ETA 7750, with chronograph function and date at 6 o’clock
Case
Multi-piece case, case middle part made of high-tech carbon fibre
Water resistant to 10 bar/100m
Titanium crown and pushers with black DLC coating
Titanium bezel with black DLC coating
Flat sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating inside
Screwed titanium case back with black DLC coating and see-through mineral crystal
Dial
Black dial with applied numerals
Black hour and minute hands with white Super-LumiNova®
Blue stop second hand with white tip, blue chronograph hands and white small second hand
Strap/Bracelet
Black rubber strap with black DLC-coated titanium folding clasp
Price
Swiss Retail Price: CHF
4,100.00
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Media Contact:
Oris SA, CH-4434 Hölstein,
Switzerland, phone + 41
61 956 11 11,
pr@oris.ch
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