It’s not sexy, but it’s also really important to develop movements that are as simple as possible and not prone to faults so that even if they go wrong they can be repaired quickly and affordably.
ORIS CALIBRE 400 AQUIS SERIES
We want Calibre 400 Series watch owners to enjoy the freedom of knowing they can put their watch aside for a few days without it stopping. One of the basics is a long power reserve. Performance comes as standard: Oris’s advanced automatic, seen through the back of the Aquis Date 41.5 mm Calibre 400, offers elevated antimagnetism, a five-day power reserve and a 10-year warranty. That’s a lot to consider when you break it down, but with the Calibre 400 Series, I think we’ve achieved it. It has to deliver beauty, functionality and reliability, and it has to last a lifetime. People expect a lot of a luxury watch, as they should. How does Oris go about conceiving a new automatic mechanical movement?įor us, it’s really important that a mechanical watch lives up to the expectations of today’s watch consumers.We have to check components, ensure the quality of every part, manage assembly, control the quality of fully assembled and mounted movements, and generally be available to answer questions other teams in the company have about the Calibre 400 Series.
My job is to pick up the brilliant concept developed by our chief operating officer Beat Fischli and his team, and to deliver Calibre 400 Series movements ready to go into watches such as the new Aquis Date 41.5 mm Calibre 400. For the last two years, I’ve been the lead watchmaker on our Calibre 400 Series of automatic movements. Then I got the chance to become part of the manufacture department, working on our Calibre 100 Series of hand-wound movements. When I joined, I started in quality control. Due to my rather quiet job, I regularly need my portion of adrenalin, so I enjoy getting into nature to go diving or parachuting. My name is Cédric Röhrich, I’m 27 years old and I’ve been an Oris watchmaker since 2014. Oris’s team of in-house watchmakers and engineers pushed the limits of mechanical watchmaking with the Calibre 400 Series. “A mechanical watch, like Oris Phénomena, gives us something to feel joyful about.” A head for heights
“ Mechanical poetry is all about making people smile,” says Oris Co-CEO Rolf Studer. With elevated levels of anti-magnetism, five days of power reserve, accuracy superior to the chronometer standard (even after exposure to magnetism), 10-year recommended service intervals and 10-year warranties on all watches they power, Calibre 400 Series sets the new standard in Swiss Made automatics. The latest of these sit in the Calibre 400 Series of automatics. In the last eight years, we’ve conceived nine new calibres, always pushing the limits of mechanics to create beautiful watch movements that make the mind wonder and the heart race. This is why we only make mechanical watches.
Think about your phone or your car – the workings are invisible. These days everything mechanical is hidden. “It’s meant to make you stop, think and smile. “It looks like the sort of crazy rocket with things whirring and wires moving that Heath Robinson would have made,” says Charles. The work has four two-metre-high steel frames, each a letter spelling the word Oris. “Oris Phénomena” (pictured above) is, in Charles’s words, a “clockwork cocktail”. We commissioned British-born, Swiss-based artist Charles Morgan to create a piece of kinetic art that celebrates our love of Swiss precision mechanics. I think we all like tovknow how things work”Īs well as making watches, we love working with mechanically minded people. “ Your phone, your car – thevworkings are invisible. That’s what we mean by the joy of mechanics.Įvery Oris watch is inspired by the simple joy of seeing and understanding how things work. But the simple pleasure of owning one and seeing it work makes life that much more enjoyable. Because if there’s one thing our watches have to do, it’s bring a smile. Whether we’re looking at a Ferris wheel with its open workings, or a mechanical watch movement through a case back, it warms us to see how things work.
In our digital, connected, touch-sensitive world, the joy of mechanics has taken on new meaning. The joy of mechanics rises to the surface in a smaller version of Oris’s versatile diver’s watch powered by the game-changing in-house automatic Calibre 400. New Watch From The House Of Oris: Aquis Date Calibre 400 41.5 Mm
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