Oris releases 39mm ProPilot X Calibre 400 titanium
ProPilot X Calibre 400
The ProPilot X Calibre 400 follows in a long line of Oris pilot’s watches going back to the early 1900s, but its power lies beyond its associations: it’s a mechanical joy machine.
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As widely expected, Oris just released a 39mm ProPilot X Calibre 400 titanium at Watches and Wonders.
Nice looking watch in blue! All of the Calibear movement watches are a bit pricey compared to what we are used to from Oris, which I think is going to be their big challenge as they try to move up-market and control their own movement supply more.
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Daniel
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." - Segal’s Law
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These are a smart compelling product offering. As far as "go-anywhere-do-anything" watches go, I can picture folks seriously cross shopping these against Aqua Terras, Grand Seiko, and Oyster Perpetuals.
These are a smart compelling product offering. As far as "go-anywhere-do-anything" watches go, I can picture folks seriously cross shopping these against Aqua Terras, Grand Seiko, and Oyster Perpetuals.
They are at an interesting price point compared to all of the above at their starting price models, and across laterally at Tudor and what it is doing. I find Oris's designs a bit more diverse than Tudor and am obviously a bit biased toward the brand. The gap between a $2K watch and a $5K watch is definitely getting some more compelling options in the market. I have a feeling a lot of that is being driven by the scarcity of ETA movements making brands take more control of their supply chain and doing some innovation in the process.
I‘ve always lumped diver, pilot, and field watches as sub-types of ”sport watches.” Help me understand what you mean… What would you like to see different from this model for an ideal new Oris sports watch?
Hodinkee’s review by Cole Pennington is out: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/embargo-30-march-2022-830am-cet-the-oris-propilot-x-calibre-400-takes-oris-in-house-caliber-to-new-h
Saw some macro shots on Insta - frankly, while the case looks beautiful and the movement is great, the dial... The dial is absolutely horrible. So are the hands. The hands look like sheet metal that wasn't brushed, but scraped against a pavement. The print quality of the logo and the hour markers is unbecoming of a watch for 10% of the Oris's price.
For the money, the Longines Spirit Titanium is a way smarter choice. And if someone just likes the looks of that Oris, I believe RZE offers something of the sort for something like 600 euro.
To me, Oris is really the kind of brand that one buys when their prices are spare change to one, not the kind that you'd wanna save up for. If it is a considerable expense to one, there's scores of stuff that offers way better bang for the buck - because in terms of value for money Oris loses miserably each and every single time. The ones I've handled were just underwhelming, especially knowing that they're priced higher or equal to similar pieces from Longines, Certina, Maurice Lacroix... The cal.400 doesn't have direct competition from these, but then again, for cal.400 money, why wouldn't one go with Tudor?
If someone just loves the design of an Oris, I get it, love isn't driven by logic.
TBH the only person I see wearing this over an Omega AT would be a WIS. I think the look of the AT is safer and appeases the masses more so. I don't see these two as competing.
I would still love to see this in person. The bracelet looks really cool, and the reviews of the skeleton from a few years ago seem positive.
Semantics to me. If someone were to refer to the Apple Silicon SoC as “in-house,” I wouldn’t debate them on it.
The ProPilot X in this post is remarkably similar to a sports watch, by that definition.