Oris In-House Movement Cal.110

[JeepWH]

There was a recent announcement by Oris releasing a new limited edition dress watch line, in stainless steel and rose gold. The interesting thing here in these models are, they feature a movement made in house by Oris themselves. Its labelled as Calibre 110, manual hand winding, 10 day power reserve with indicator. This is the first full in house movement for the modern Oris company.
What are your thoughts?

Read more here:
http://www.ablogtowatch.com/oris-begins-house-watch-movement-production-calibre-110/2/

[jason_recliner]

10 days is impressive, but I don't like tiny balance wheels. As for the watch, no thanks. Sporty dial on a dressy case is a mess.
It's always great to see another in-house movement.

[dualcarb]

43mm is kinda big for a dress watch watch no?  My humble take is that a dress watch should easily slide under one shirt cuff easily and be quite minimalist in design. Something towards the likes of the calavatra or MUT.

DC

[JOS2012]

Very few calibres with long PR i.e. exceeding 3 days have good if not excellent isochronism, perhaps a handful that I know of only. The rest of the long PR calibres are purely for 'wow factor' marketing purposes to a buyer segment that has yet to be aware of isochronism.

Achieving long PR is not that technically difficult (either a very long mainspring or a double barrel) but achieving it with good isochronism would be something to really be proud of. That is why hi-end manufactures like FPJ or ALS come up with complications like remontoirs or chain and fuse to achieve constant rate. They are not for show or wow factor. These manufactures are beyond the stage of having something to prove.

I wouldn't applaud this caliber not until a long term performance report like those done by IW is out. If indeed the isochronism is excellent, I would be pleasantly surprised not to mention having to change my mindset abt non hi-end watch makers pushing the horological envelope which even some talented masters like FPJ are still striving to perfect.

BTW I do have a vintage ORIS and I have previously purchased an ORIS as a gift for a relative. Timekeeping is anything but impressive.

[mike]

10 days power reserve is pretty impressive, but for the price I'd rather go for something else 

[G.MAC]

If the price is slightly lower, I would have given this watch more thought as I am a sucker for watches with long PR. I would however like a date aperture on the watch.

[JeepWH]

Well this just the initial launch of a limited edition range featuring in house calibre. Most probably in future they'll incorporate this movement in production models. Then there might be models with date function.

[sidestreaker]

I think its a good start (or rather re-start) for their in-house calibre. I applaud the decision to go with manual winding and long power reserve, 2 of the feature which I appreciate in a watch. With that price point, seems challenging some of the big boys with the similar features but with a reasonable price, for example, the IWC Portuguese 8 days steel is almost double the price and looks rather similar.

[JeepWH]

The price is for this featured model is for Limited Edition,  i believe the price will come down for the production models in the future.

[GTH]

1.8meters for mainspring length is no wonder it has a 10 day power reserve, basic mechanical watches have a main spring of around 30cm (more or less) that give ~42hrs power reserve.