Oris enhances the performance of its groundbreaking automatic mechanical altimeter and places it into a new carbon-fiber composite case.
Announced during Watches and Wonders 2023, the new Oris Pro Pilot Altimeter is now thinner and more lightweight than it was in 2014 when Oris launched it as the “world’s first and only automatic mechanical watch with a mechanical altimeter.”
After working on the new model for the past three years, Oris has made the new model capable of indicating altitude up to 19,700 feet or 6,000 meters (the watch is available with indications in either feet or meters). On the earlier editions the scales indicated up to 15,000 feet or 4,500 meters.
Teaming with 9T Labs, a spin-off from the ETH Zurich university (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Oris built the new 47mm carbon fiber case as a single-piece of 3D-printed carbon 1mm thinner than the earlier models.
Oris attaches a PVD-coated titanium bezel and caseback and powers the watch with its own Caliber 793, a slimline automatic with a newly improved 56-hour power reserve.
The watch is available in two versions, one with an altitude scale in feet and another with an altitude scale in meters. Both versions are priced at $6,500.
Specifications: Oris ProPilot Altimeter
Movement: Automatic Oris 793, with hours, minutes and central sweep seconds hands, date with quick setting, stop second device, date window at 3 o’clock. Power reserve of 56 hours.
Case: 47mm single-piece carbon fibre case, grey PVD-plated titanium bezel and caseback. Water resistance to 100 meters.
Dial: Black with altitude scale on dial ring in either feet or meters.
Luminous material: Indices, numbers and hands printed with Super-LumiNova. Domed sapphire on both sides, anti-reflective coating on both sides. Case back in grey PVD-plated titanium, screwed, feet-to-metre conversion chart engravings.
Operating devices: Grey PVD-plated titanium screw-in security crown at 2 o’clock, grey PVD-plated titanium screw-in altimeter crown at 4 o’clock.
Strap: Green textile with brown leather lining, grey PVD-plated titanium folding clasp with fine adjustment system.
Price: $6,500.
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