Oris: Source Of Life Limited Edition

Oris continues its mission to bring change for the better with a limited edition watch that celebrates water, the new Source of Life Limited Edition inspired by the River Rhine.

The new watch is based on the Oris Aquis diver’s watch, one of the independent Swiss company’s signature designs. In keeping with Oris’s philosophy to “Go your own way”, every model in the line combines innovation, high-performance and high-quality Swiss design and engineering with price points that make sense.

The Oris Source of Life Limited Edition picks up on that theme, and also recognises the role water plays in feeding, sustaining and connecting life. It focuses on the course of the River Rhine, chosen because it runs close to the village of Hölstein where Oris has been based since 1904, and because the Orisbach, a nearby brook from which the company takes its name, feeds into it.

The watch’s case back is embossed with a map of the River Rhine, which runs 1,233km through six countries from its source at the Lai da Tuma “Tomasee Lake”, a lake 2,343 metres up in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden, through to the North Sea. The river has been a source of life to those who live along it for centuries.

The Source of Life Limited Edition has a 43.5mm stainless steel case is water-resistant to 300 metres, and it has a uni-directional rotating bezel with a grey tungsten insert with a 60-minute timer scale for safely measuring dive times.

The watch’s automatic movement provides it with its standout complication, an inventive circular date indicator shown by a scale running from 1 to 31 around the centre of the watch’s dial. Inside it is a channel with a white indicator that aligns with the scale and makes a full tour of the dial once a month to show the date. The watch also has a sweeping seconds hand with a “lollipop” filled with luminescent Super-LumiNova.