Who is Carl Brashear you ask? Well, perhaps you may already know, especially if you are a movie buff who had watched the 2000 Hollywood production, Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. (who plays Carl Brashear), Robert de Niro (Master Chief Billy Sunday) and Charlize Theron (Gwen Sunday). He is not some fictional movie character but a true American … More
Oris presented its first watch with the digital hour display at the 2014 BaselWorld watch fair. Known as the Artelier Jumping Hour, this is the brand’s first watch with the jumping hour digital display. After every sixty minutes, the jumping hour disc will make the change to the next hour instantaneously. Based on the Sellita SW300 automatic movement, the dial … More
What more can Oris offer after the 2013 Oris Aquis Depth Gauge which measures the submerged depth? [Note: TimeWerke Magazine Vol. IX, pages 276 to 278 has a detailed write-up on the Oris Aquis Depth Gauge]. The answer is already here and that is the 2014 Oris Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter. As its name implies, this mechanical watch is able … More
In 1904, Paul Cattin and Georges Christian, watchmakers from Le Locle, acquired a former watch factory in Hölstein located in the north-western part of Switzerland. Their objective was to create their own timepieces and the brand name they chose was Oris. Oris is a name derived from a brook found in a valley close to Hölstein. The etymological roots of … More
Apart from the serpentine theme because this is the year of the snake, having a blue dial is also the in thing, as we have learnt from the BaselWorld watch fair. One timepiece that “chased the blues” away, so to speak, was the Oris John Coltrane Limited Edition. This is by far, one of the emotional pieces in blue that … More