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Oris and expedition swimmer Ernst Bromeis are aiming to help raise awareness of the importance of clean, unpolluted water, with the release of the Oris Aquis Date Relief watch.
It has been introduced into a collection of high-performance diver’s watches.
Ernst took the Oris Aquis Date Relief to Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake, with photographer Maurice Haas, for a preparation swim ahead of his new global water awareness campaign project – ‘The Blue Miracle’.
It will see him swim across a number of lakes to raise awareness. “It’s a project I founded, inspired by the planet viewed from space, which looks like a blue marble and for me a blue miracle,” he said. “The threats you can’t see are maybe the bigger tragedy – all the pesticides, hormones, micro-plastics and medicines in the water. We have to take responsibility for our way of life, our lifestyle.”
Why did he choose to work with Oris? “Oris is an authentic and freedom-loving brand. Oris and I have similar attitudes and values,” he said. “We are both going our own way, inspired by beauty and simplicity, and by the basics of life.”
The Oris Aquis Date Relief is inspired by the colour and feeling of water. The grey dial recalls the colour of a stormy sea, while the watch’s signature diving scale numerals in relief are a reminder of the texture of water, as well as its elemental role in all life.
The watch has a 43.50mm stainless steel case with a uni-directional rotating diver’s bezel and is water-resistant to 300m. It comes on a choice of straps or a metal bracelet, and its sapphire crystal sits over a dial decorated with applied hour markers, which, like the hour and minutes hands, are filled with luminescent Super-LumiNova.
Its Swiss-made automatic mechanical movement provides it with a central second’s hand – in urgent red – and a date, seen through a window.
Bromeis plans to swim 800km across Lake Baikal wearing the watch as part of the campaign.
