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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