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Cloaca
1906
Mar 20, 2018
Oris has a watch without its proprietary strap connection ... but they make it 21 mm.
Edit:
100 meters? Does that mean I can wash my hands when I wear it?
My wife's cute little black mini Oris Aquis diver is rated to 300 meters, and in keeping with the minimalist ladies look it's not even stated on the watch face:
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/oris-aquis-ladies-automatic-watch
Really cool crystal though. I thought you could only do that with plastic crystals.
NikoToscani
Mar 20, 2018
CloacaI own the watch. When Oris says 100m they mean it's water proof to 100m, which is far deeper than any recreational diver will ever go.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGKJAzBnuE
Cloaca
1906
Mar 21, 2018
NikoToscaniIf they are following that official Swiss dive watch standard, it can go 125 meters in a dry tester, since they give it a 25 percent safety margin.
vadman
53
Mar 28, 2018
CloacaThis is the first time I hear about any "official Swiss dive watch standard"... have a link?
I suspect what you really mean is the ISO 6425 international diver's watch standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Resistant_mark#ISO_6425_divers'_watches_standard
This Oris does not comply with ISO 6425. In fact, I'm not aware of any Oris which does. They used to write "ISO 2281" on their beefy "professional" watches for a period of time, which was funny (not in a good way), so they stopped. See e.g. this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVLyUpsIAjk
The only dive
watches I know of that have "DIVER'S" or "ISO 6425" written on them are Seiko, Citizen, and Marathon.
Cloaca
1906
Mar 28, 2018
vadmanThere's a different between "comply with" and "certified as."
The standard requires that the entire inventory of watches be sent to a testing company, and a fee paid for each watch. Yeah, nobody does that anymore.
What they do is to have internal standards. They can go two or three ways on that. They can self test representative samples or all of their watches against the 125 percent standard, They can test against a 100 percent standard. Or like a few nutty forum and Kickstarter watches, they can just test to failure and put out a "371.4 meter" watch.
vadman
53
Mar 28, 2018
CloacaI wrote "comply" and never mentioned any certifications.
Point is, Oris doesn't have a history of even trying to comply with the more demanding 6425 standard. It's a pretty watch, and I would happily wear it, but it's not a "diver", nor does it claim to be.