Direction Selection: A Hands-On Review of the New Oris Aquis GMT Date
The Aquis GMT Date doesn?t represent a venture into previously unexplored terrain for Oris because the popular independent brand from Hölstein, Switzerland, has previous experience with time-zone watches. The Oris Big Crown ProPilot Worldtimer is a pilots? watch with innovative time-zone setting via the bezel. The local time advances in single-hour increments when you turn the bezel clockwise and retreats in hourly steps when you turn the calibrated ring counterclockwise; the date moves correspondingly backward or forward whenever the reset hour hand passes midnight. With the Big Crown ProPilot Caliber 114, Oris has even equipped Caliber 114, which was developed in-house, with a second time zone via a 24-hour scale, 10 days of power autonomy, and a 240-degree power-reserve display. The new Oris Aquis GMT Date
Oris?s experience with world-time watches dates back to the 20th century. The launch of its Worldtimer in 1997 was a world first because its patented time-zone mechanism let the user reset the local time forward or back in hourly increments simply by pushing a designated button on one side of the case or the other. Even in this first model, the date jumps forward or back whenever the local time crosses the midnight mark. In 2008, Oris launched the BC4 Flight Timer, a watch with three time zones, one of which could be reset using a vertical crown at 2 o?clock. This watch even won a Red Dot Award in the ?Best of the Best? category in 2009.
The Time-Zone Settings ...
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