Oris is back with another Hölstein Edition, an annual release celebrating the brand’s birthday each June. You might recall that last year?s edition saw the release of a lovely execution of their trademark pointer date, complete with their new in-house movement, and 2020 saw a fully bronzed-out (is that a thing") chronograph. Those are two very different watches, and it leads one to believe that the theme of these releases is that there is no theme at all, but that the watches are chosen to celebrate something that makes Oris unique, and gives the brand an opportunity to tweak the ?standard? version of a watch just a little bit. This year?s Hölstein Edition is Oris to the core, and a throwback to a time well before the current moment watch enthusiasm is experiencing. Yes, we?re going back to the 90s this year with the Full Steel. Happy birthday, Oris.
The Full Steel Worldtimer was introduced in 1998 and showcased what at the time was the most complicated movement Oris had ever produced, the Calibre 690. This movement offered the user the ability to jump the local time in one hour increments via a pair of pushers on each case flank, marked by plus and minus signs. Home time is always shown via a subdial at 3:00, and the date can change in either direction along with the local hour hand. It?s a fairly ingenious and intuitive system for managing time-telling while on the go, and it was all thrown into an unusual, compact sports watch with a bold dial and ...