Orion’s New Tesseract Debuts a Unique American Made Dial
Something we?re always tracking at Worn & Wound are new ways that brands take advantage of a stepped up watch infrastructure right here in the United States. While watches that are 100% American made are rare (primarily because movements and their components are still made almost exclusively overseas) individual watch parts (dials, cases, and so forth) are being made in larger numbers now than we?ve seen in recent years in the US, and they?re starting to show up in watches at all price points. At the high end, you?ve got folks like Joshua Shapiro and his traditional engine turned dials, but there are interesting things happening on the other side of the market as well. One brand that we?ve covered in the past, Orion, just announced a new watch that is actually a fairly serious entry into the growing American made watch space, and is honestly a bit of a (welcome) surprise.Â
The Tesseract is the latest in a series of watches from a brand that really knows how to name their timepieces (previous watches include the Hellcat and Calamity), but this one has a very different feel. While their prior watches had a distinct military/tool flavor, the Tesseract is more impressionistic, and it comes down to the dial. Made in the USA, the isometric patterned dial is made using a milling process as opposed to being laser cut, which results in what Orion says is a crispness and sense of depth that can?t be achieved by taking shortcuts. Naturally, technical challenges crop up ...
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