In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Oris’s first dive watch – the Divers 65 Oris has today launched the 60th Anniversary Edition.

In the 1960s, the world enjoyed a magical season of design and artistic creativity. A new era of international travel and exploration was taking hold, and diving using Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus – or SCUBA diving as it became known became a recreational activity. Divers needed reliable, legible watches for their underwater adventures and so in 1965 Oris created its first dive watch. It had large, luminescent numerals and promised high levels of performance.

The new watch pulls across some of the original design cues including the original quirky dial design, domed sapphire crystal and the bi-directional rotating bezel as well as the use of their historical Oris Logo including the word ‘Waterproof’ below the logo.

The new 60th anniversary edition is not a limited edition and is presented as a 40mm no-date variant with a 20mm lug width, an aluminium bezel insert, on a steel bracelet with an additional leather strap. Like the rest of the Divers65 range it’s water resistant (rather than waterproof) to 100m/10bar and is powered by the Oris calibre 733-1 a no-date iteration of a Sellita movement.

This edition now joins the rest of the Divers 65 and Divers date line up that totals some 95 models which is a lot of choice for a single model!

The new watch is available here for less than the existing range at £1950 here:
https://www.oris.ch/en-GB/product/watch/divers/divers-sixty-five/01-733-7772-4034-Set

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