Bronze on Bronze: The New Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date (With Live Photos)
In production continuously since 1938, the Oris Big Crown Pointer Date, originally envisioned as a tool watch for aviators, has become Oris’s signature piece, even playing a key role in its revival as an all-mechanical brand in the wake of the 1970s Quartz Crisis. Oris marked the 80th anniversary of this emblematic timepiece last year in a watch with a bronze case and dark green dial. This year, the Hölstein-based brand ventures even further into the watch world’s new Bronze Age with another special edition, this one combining a bronze case with a solid bronze dial.
The Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date uses bronze for both the case and dial.
The Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date has a multi-piece bronze case measuring 40 mm in diameter and featuring all the venerable model’s visual hallmarks, including the coin-edged bezel, tapered lugs, and the oversized, grooved, screw-down crown that gives it its name. Under a domed sapphire crystal with nonreflective treatment on its underside is the dial, made of a chemically treated bronze and coated with a transparent matte lacquer that will, Oris tells us, impart to each individual watch a unique finish. Vintage-look hands tell the time on white Arabic numerals while a central hand with a red crescent tip indicates the date on a peripheral scale. The hands, numerals and principal indices are all treated with Super-LumiNova. The tapered lugs are a signature of the Big Crown Pointer Date case.
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