An active journey to rescue the oceans from plastic and its islands from climate change
Oris takes the responsibility of caring for our planet very seriously. It plays an active role in improving the alarming situation in which we have plunged it together with the main organizations of marine conservation.
With almost two decades of environmental commitment in its ecological history, independent Swiss watchmaker Oris He is one of the greatest defenders of the ocean conservation.
This year his commitment has led him to collaborate with the organization Pacific Garbage Screening in the construction of a prototype of a floating platform, designed to clean the plastic from the and recycle them as energy and biological products.
An active journey to clean the oceans
At the same time, it continues to collaborate with the Reef Restoration Foundation , with whom it partners to help restore the Great Barrier Reef, and supports swimmer and brand ambassador, Ernst Bromeis, who plans to swim 800 kilometers across Lake Baikal , as part of its new global water awareness campaign.
19 YEARS OF COMMITMENT AND ACTION
Oris' commitment to conserving the oceans began in 2010. Each of the associations that were born from this commitment was immortalized in a limited edition watch, accompanied by a special certificate in which each project supported by each of these watches is explained in detail.
The Oris dive watches in special edition are waterproof to a great depth, have a caseback with a memorial engraving , rubber straps or steel bracelets, unidirectional rotating bezels with graduated scale, crown guard and highly legible dials with luminescent hands and indices.
In 2010 Oris carried out its first collaboration with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, AMCS (curiously enough, founded in 1965, the same year that Oris created its first diving watch) to help protect marine life and the largest coral reef in the world, with an area of 34,870,000 hectares: the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO heritage site since 1981.
Ernst Bromeis plans to swim 800 km across Lake Baikal
The mission of Oris and the AMCS is to help regenerate quality corals in the Great Barrier Reef, with plantations that counteract the effects of coral bleaching.
The reef is around 8,000 years old and is the largest and most biodiverse system in the world , with incredible tropical fish, turtles, sharks, rays, dugongs and hundreds of different corals.
The model that inaugurated the series was called Oris Great Barrier Reef and was characterized by an attractive blue dial and orange luminescent hands and indices, a shade as close to coral as possible.
In 2011 Oris signed an agreement with the NGO Bluepeace Maldives and supported his program to protect atoll corals.
The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia and the one with the lowest maximum altitude above sea level in the world. Because of climate change they are in danger of extinction not only its corals but its entire territory.
The commemorative diving model of this association received the name of Oris Maldives and featured a ceramic top ring and special crown protection.
Oris Great Barrier Reef Limited Edition II
The following year, the brand wanted to give special support to the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in the Philippines.
These reefs are one of the most biodiverse in the world, which is why it was declared protected area in 1988 by President Corazón Aquino . As reefs around the world are under siege, tubbataha It has managed to remain in an incredibly pristine state.
To honor the great work of the Tubbataha Reef Project , Oris launches the Tubbataha Limited Edition , whose most outstanding element is the display of the regulator-type centralized minute hand
In 2014, an Oris study camp was organized with four students sponsored by the Red Sea Environmental Center in Dahab Egypt , who were tasked with obtaining information to protect marine life and corals in the Red Sea.
The watch that seals this action is the model Aquis Red Limited Edition and features an attractive gray dial with red accents that extend to the ceramic bezel.
In 2016, two cooperation projects were produced. On the one hand it joins for the second time with the Australian Marine Conservation Society to help protect the Great Barrier Reef and, on the other, it reaches an agreement with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography to finance a group of study on the underwater volcano El Hierro in the Canary Islands.
On the one hand, the limited edition diving watch is born Oris Great Barrier Reef II , which is characterized by its particular indication of the day of the week: an inner ring with the seven days of the week printed with a narrow window under each of them, under which runs a yellow disk that marks the current day. On the other hand, the clock Diving Oris El Hierro Limited Edition, inspired by an underwater volcano off the coast of the island.
the following years, Oris sponsors projects in areas such as Mexico, Cayo Largo and Clipperton. Thus, in 2017 the watch was born Oris Hammerhead, created in support of a pioneering shark conservation project in partnership with Pelagios Kakunjá, a non-profit organization founded in 2010 by Mexican scientists Mauricio Hoyos and James Ketchum. The watch reproduces the gray color of sharks on the dial and the metallic tone of its bracelet.
That same year, Oris and the Coral Restoration Foundation team up to create a limited edition version of a new here , in support of the organization's vital work to conserve the globally threatened Caribbean Staghorn coral.
In 2018, the model is created Oris Clipperton Limited Edition with the mission of conserving the atoll of the same name; a tribute to the atoll and the work of Michel Labrecque and Julie Ouimet developed there.
This year Oris and swimmer Ernst Bromeis go their own way to raise awareness of the importance of water, launching the Oris Aquis Date Relief, a dive watch inspired by the color and feel of water.
Ernst took the Oris Aquis Date Relief to the lake baikal next to the photographer maurice haas to prepare your project 'The blue miracle' of 2019, which will see you cross several lakes, including Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake, to raise awareness about the world's water.
And it is that for 2019 Oris has set itself the mission of improve the dire situation our planet is going through and has adopted the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
For this reason, it has just announced a new association with Pacific Garbage Screening, a pioneering young organization that develops technology to keep the water clean by capturing plastic before it reaches the ocean.
The organization's concept is a floating platform located in rivers and estuaries that recovers and recycles plastic waste, converting it into energy and biological products, such as biodegradable plastic.
A union has been sealed with the clock Clean Ocean Limited Edition , whose bottom incorporates a recycled PET plastic medallion. The 2,000 copies of this edition are presented in cases made with organic algae.
Unstoppable on the crest of the wave of action beyond awareness , the firm launches the latest tribute to the cleaning, protection and restoration of the world's oceans: the Oris Blue Whale Limited Edition, the new watch that completes the Oris Ocean Trilogy, which began with the Oris Great Barrier Reef Limited Edition III and the Oris Clean Ocean Limited Edition.
The trilogy is limited to 200 pieces and comes in a special recycled PET plastic case.
Special case for the trilogy