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A Review Of The Oris Big Crown Pointer Date Watch

Oris watches represent excellent Swissdesigned a third design for their dial
manufacture and classic styling aton the Big Crown; one that used
prices that most can afford. I'm a fanSuperluminova Arabic numerals and
of Oris watches and I like its currentstainless steel hands on a silver
collection of Big Crown Pointer Dateguilloche dial. Having said that, I can
watches although there are one or twoeasily live with the rose gold finishing
things about the collection I have mildon the silver version of the dial.
criticisms of.Depending on the size and particular
The pointer date was first used in Orismodel, the Oris Big Crown Pointer Date
watches in 1938 and though one or twoWatch comes with either 25 or 17 jewels.
other manufacturers employ a pointerThere are four different straps to
date in some of their watches, thecomplement the Big Pointer watch by
pointer date is almost a trademark ofOris; black leather, mid-brown leather,
Oris. The use of this feature in theirstainless steel and stainless steel with
Big Crown collection is a beautifulplated rose gold. As I said earlier, I
amalgamation of pointer date and crown.don't gold/silver combinations and I
All the Big Crown Oris watches come withalso don't think that the brown leather
an automatic movement with a screwedstrap suits the look of either the
back and see-through mineral glass -silver or black dials.
personally, I like a being able to seeFinally, lets talk about the pointer
the inner workings of the watchesdate hand. Whether it's gold or silver
movement.coloured, the pointer date hand comes
The casing of the Oris Big Crown Pointerwith a red curved end that points to the
Date watch comes in four sizes: 40mm,date on the outer rim of the dial.
36mm, 32mm and 28.5mm. It's constructedHowever, on the 40mm case the pointer
in stainless steel and comes with adate end piece is slightly curved,
fluted bezel - the bezel can optionallyforming a quarter circle, whereas on the
come in rose gold.smaller cases the end piece forms the
There are two different dials available:shape of a horseshoe. I much prefer the
silver guilloche or black. The designhorseshoe shape as it, in my opinion,
features are different for each dial.highlights the date more clearly. Why
With the silver guilloche dial, thereOris chose to use a different shape on
are rose gold Arabic numerals at the 12,the largest casing I don't know but I
2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 positions with rosewish it hadn't.
gold markers at the odd hours. The hour,I really like the Oris Big Crown Pointer
minute, second and date hands are alsoDate watch. My preferred piece from this
in rose gold, with the hour and minutecollection would be the 40mm silver
hands in Superluminova material. Theguilloche case and black leather strap -
black dial of the Oris Big Pointer watchdespite my reservations about the use of
comes Superluminova Arabic numerals forrose gold hour markers. The big case
each hour and all hands are stainlessjust carries the big crown better.
steel in colour.Robin O'Brien is founder of a website
I really like the black dial, more sodedicated to beautiful watches that he
than the silver guilloche. My taste inand his wife own. You can get wristwatch
watches is very simple; I like myreviews on such leading classics like
stainless steel watches to be just that.Oris watches, Longines, Rado and Panerai
I don't like the mixing of gold andwatches among others.
silver and I really do wish Oris had



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