When it comes right down to it, there are two things (besides watches) that I just can?t get enough of: trains, and words that are really fun to say. Maybe that?s a strange way to lead into this new release from Oris, but I have to be my authentic self as I consider this new watch. And let me tell you, it checks a few boxes that I frankly didn?t even know existed. 

The new Waldenburgerbahn Limited Edition (see, I told you it was going to be fun to say) is a jet black edition of their popular pointer date complication made in celebration of the railroad that allowed Oris to flourish in the Waldenburg Valley in the watchmaker?s earliest days. The WB, as it?s known, opened in 1880 and connected small Swiss villages in the valley (like Hölstein, Oris?s hometown) with one another and larger industrial centers like Basel. The railway allowed not just Oris but many other companies involved in watchmaking and engineering to grow at a rate that would have been impossible without the train connecting them to the rest of the world. The Waldenburgerbahn recently received an upgrade to modernize it a bit, and Oris has taken the opportunity to release a commemorative watch on a platform that is directly linked to their long history. 
Making a watch in honor of a historically important train might seem like a stretch, but as someone who has become something of a train enthusiast in the last few years, regularly taking the Acela to Worn & Wound?s offices in New York...