In 2014, the 110th anniversary of its founding, Oris introduced its first in-house movement in nearly 40 years, the aptly named Caliber 110. In every year since, the brand has rolled out another variation of that base movement, adding increased functionalities and complications. The new Artelier Calibre 113, launched at Baselworld 2017, features the fourth of these movements, which is equipped with a so-called “business calendar,” with indications for the day, date, week, and month of the year.
The Oris Artelier Calibre 113 features the brand’s fourth new in-house movement since 2014.
Like Oris’s previous in-house calibers, numbered 110, 111, and 112, Caliber 113 offers an impressive 10-day power reserve in a single mainspring barrel and powers a non-linear power-reserve indicator and a small seconds display in addition to the hours and minutes. The combination of calendar functions that have been added for Caliber 113 are rarely found together in a single timepiece (Oris says this watch is unique in that regard), with the 52-week scale being especially unusual (Blancpain has designed one of its new calendar models, also introduced at Baselworld 2017, to include this function, albeit without the month indications). This manual-winding movement, which oscillates at 21,600 vph and is on display through an exhibition caseback, was a product of Oris’s recently founded research and development department, dubbed the Centre of Excellence. We exp...