In 1997, Oris shook up the somewhat staid world-time watch category with the launch of its first Worldtimer, which featured an innovative new system, developed by the brand, for changing time zones with ease. Twenty years later, Oris gives its invention a new twist (quite literally), in this week’s Watch to Watch, the Oris Big Crown ProPilot Worldtimer.
The Oris Big Crown ProPilot Worldtimer allows the wearer to change the local time with a turn of the bezel.
The first Oris Worldtimer introduced a mechanism that used plus and minus pushers on the side of the case that adjusted the local time forward or backward, in one-hour jumps, when pressed ? without the wearer ever needing to pull out the crown and stop the running of the watch. The watch included displays for small seconds, home time, and day/night indication, and featured another Oris in-house innovation, a patented mechanism that ensured that the date would keep track of the time adjustment, even if it meant going backward over midnight. Oris has used this world-time system in many of its watches since, and, for its 20th anniversary year, updates it with even more user-friendly functionality. Gone are the plus and minus pushers; a simple turn of the bezel now suffices to adjust the local time. Oris Big Crown ProPilot Worldtimer, Ref. 01 690 7735 4063 LS, on crocodile strap
 
Making its debut in this new model from Oris’s popular Big Crown ProPilot collection, the revamped world-time function enables ...