Discover Oris, a Maison founded in 1904, one of the ten largest Swiss watchmaking companies in the 1960s, which has (re)built its future on the mechanical watch.
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1904
The two watchmakers Paul Cattin and Georges Christian buy the Lohner & Co watch factory in the small village of Hölstein near Basel and found Oris, named after a nearby stream.
1982
A giant watchmaker before the quartz crisis, Oris in decline is taken over by its management led by Rolf Portmann and Ulrich W. Herzog. It decides to produce only mechanical watches.
2014
To mark its 110th anniversary and 35 years after the development of its last caliber, Oris presents the Calibre 110, a hand-wound movement developed in-house. It will be followed in 2000 by the Calibre 400, a self-winding movement.
2021
Oris is the first watchmaking company to have officially achieved carbon neutrality, a certification awarded by the independent experts at ClimatePartner.
Explore a curated selection of Oris' watches and emblematic models.
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