Oris's video: Oris - In the Atelier: Lukas B hlmann on Designing the Oris Big Crown ProPilot X Calibre 115 2019

Oris - In the Atelier Series - Episode 1: When everything comes together - Oris’s Senior Product Design Engineer Lukas Bühlmann on the design process behind the Oris Big Crown ProPilot X Calibre 115. Behind the watch: How many of us really know how the technology around us works? As in, how the nuts and bolts come together to do what they do? How many can really grasp how a connected device taps into the great invisible network in the sky? It won’t be many. The advances of our age have distanced us from a tangible knowledge of how the things we own work. In one sense, we’re content to embrace that. Smartphones, a common example, are tools we use for work. They bring us together so we can share stories and ideas. These are good things. But while they enable us at their best, they enslave us at their worst. And because we don’t understand how they work, it can be hard to trust them; to really know them. Which we’re increasingly uncomfortable with. This vein of thinking goes a long way to explaining why mechanical watches, dreamed up generations ago, are more relevant today than ever. No electronics. No connectivity. No apps. No smoke and mirrors. Archaic? Or enlightened? By comparison, a mechanical watch is a hand-crafted object we can connect with in the most natural sense. If we don’t move, an automatic runs out of power. If we don’t wind the crown every couple of days, a hand-wound watch will stop. The connection is tangible. At Oris, we decided to look into the essence of that idea. If you took the honesty and integrity of a mechanical watch and stripped it back to its bare bones, to show its true nature, what form would it take? And what would an Oris watch conceptualised through that prism look like? What would it say? The answer is the Oris Big Crown ProPilot X Calibre 115, the most Oris watch we’ve ever made – every watch that went before it has led us to this point. It’s inspired by nature, particularly by the Waldenburg Valley, which surrounds the village of Hölstein, where Oris has been based since it was founded in 1904. It’s a reflection of contemporary culture, too, and of our growing desire for authentic experiences. And it’s a watch that explains Oris’s true personality. The idea started with the movement. Oris, an independent company, only makes mechanical watches. Everything in the watch stemmed from its mechanical heartbeat. For our 110th anniversary, we introduced Oris Calibre 110, a limited edition watch with an in-house developed movement that carried a 10-day power reserve, a patented non-linear power reserve indicator and a small seconds. This innovative, unique combination of complications became the base architecture for a suite of landmark calibres that followed, through to Calibre 114, launched last year. Together, these calibres have become the symbol of Oris the movement creator. Since the company was founded, it has introduced more than 270 in-house calibres, a proud legacy. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ►PRODUCT INFORMATION Model: Oris Big Crown ProPilot X Calibre 115 Ref. No. 01 115 7759 7153-Set7 22 01TLC CASE Material: Multi-piece titanium case Size: 44.00 mm, 1.732 inches Top Glass: Sapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside Case back: Titanium, screwed, see-through mineral glass Operating Titanium screw-in security crown Water Resistance: 10 bar/100 m Interhorn Width: 22 mm MOVEMENT Number: Oris 115 Dimensions: Ø 34.00 mm, 15’’’ Functions: Centre hands for hours and minutes, subsidiary second at 7.30 h, non-linear power reserve indication at 3 h, fine timing device and stop-second Winding: Hand winding Power-Reserve: 240 hours Vibrations: 3 Hz (21’600 A/h) Jewels: 38 DIAL Design: Skeleton dial Luminous Material: Indices and hands Super-LumiNova® STRAP/BRACELET: Multi-piece titanium bracelet with ‘lift’ clasp or black leather strap with titanium ‘lift’ clasp Availability: September 2019 Swiss retail price: CHF 6,800/7,200 (strap/bracelet) Product Page: www.oris.ch/ProPilotX ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ► Find out what others think about the model: Hodinkee: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-oris-big-crown-propilot-x-calibre-115-live-pics-pricing Gear Patrol: https://gearpatrol.com/2019/09/06/this-new-skeletonized-pilots-watch-is-what-luxury-dreams-are-made-of/ Fratello: https://www.fratellowatches.com/oris-big-crown-propilot-x-launch-event-report/ Horology House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmlj3sQeTQo&t=7s Bark and Jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glz1V94e7F8&t=343s ID Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7jwA8E4O28 ► Follow our path Website: https://www.oris.ch/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oris/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ORIS/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriswatches ► Subscribe to our YouTube Channel https://rebrand.ly/oris-youtube-26040