Baselworld 2018: Introducing the Oris Divers Sixty-Five Bronze Bezel in 36 and 40mm
Oris has been on a roll lately with vintage-inspired offerings that update classic designs with 21st century technology and materials. In 2015, the brand released the Divers Sixty-Five, a modernized version of their popular dive watch from the 1960s, and it has since become one of Oris’ most popular collections (there have been numerous iterations of the watch with different dial colors and limited editions). New for 2018 are two editions, one in 40mm and the other in a new, smaller 36mm case?both with bronze bezels and several aesthetic updates.Though the cases themselves are fashioned from stainless steel and feature screw-down case backs and crowns for 100m of water resistance, it?s the watches? uni-directional bezels with bronze outer turning top rings that give the new Divers Sixty-Five their unique visual signature, adding a glistening goldish hue to otherwise steel and black watches. The bronze bezels feature aluminum inlays with 60-minute demarcations and Super-LumiNova. The bubble-curved sapphire crystals with AR coating add to the overall vintage-inspired looks of the watches. The new, smaller 36mm Divers Sixty-Five is as vintage-inspired as it gets.
The dials on both watches are nearly identical with the exception of the placement of the date wheel. The 36mm edition moves the date to three from six, which is a nice callback to the historical model. The dial surface itself is domed, and it’s black with applied rose gold PVD-plated indices and ...
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