Oris has topped its family of extremely no-nonsense dive watches with a regulator complication. It’s an unusual – but potentially inspired – idea.
By Chris Hall

Let’s recap what we know about Oris. A sensible brand making sensible watches at sensible prices – decades ago, one of the industry’s biggest producers of watches and recently, a brand which has found its cool with the Diver’s Sixty-Five. If any of that sounds like news to you, read our in-depth profile of the brand from earlier in the year here. 
One of the foundations that Oris’s current range of watches is built on is the ever so solid 43.5mm Aquis dive watch. Yes, the name is a little bit effete but that’s where it ends: this is a very burly dive watch. In fact, it’s so solid – so angular in its design and chunky on the wrist – that you could literally build actual foundations from it. 
The Aquis is from top to bottom, a no-nonsense dive watch. There are some nicely coloured dial variations, some linked to Oris’s various environmental projects, and of course further back in the catalogue there is still the Depth Gauge, but mostly it’s an unremarkable set of timepieces. 
And now this. A dive watch with a regulator dial. That’s an odd sentence to say – dive watches are hardy tools, and regulators tend to be the kind of ultra-classical piece offered by Patek Philippe, Arnold & Son or M...