A manufacture that has created versatile watches themed on aviation, diving and city life, Oris engineers a variety of sporty watches in its facility in Hölstein, Switzerland. Inspired by the great outdoors, Oris has developed more than 280 unique calibers and created many horological icons since its founding in 1904, including the Aquis, Divers Sixty-Five and Big Crown. In the Oris family, the ProPilot is a collection of utilitarian timepieces themed on flying; each ProPilot watch bears aviation-inspired aesthetic details. This March, the brand debuts two timepieces under the acclaimed collection, both of which express the flight-ready design DNA of the collection, but in distinctly different ways.
ORIS PROPILOT ALTIMETER
While Oris has dive watches that can measure depth, the brand wowed mechanical watch connoisseurs when it unveiled a timepiece nine years ago that can measure height and ascent. In 2014, the brand created the Oris Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter,