Giving Back
SOLID GOLD SUPPORT
ris has introduced an impressive series of limited
edition dive watches over the years, many of which
incorporate a philanthropic cause into their finely
engineered designs. The just-introduced Lake Baikal Limited
Edition, for example, was created in partnership with the Lake
Baikal Foundation to help raise funds to conserve the world’s
deepest freshwater lake.
Oris earlier this year carried on its environmental fund-
raising by introducing the Carysfort Reef Limited Edition, a
significant new watch on two fronts: in its composition—it is
the company’s first Aquis model in solid gold—and in its
mission to help support the Coral Restoration Foundation,
with which Oris has been working since 2014.
Based on the Oris Aquis GMT, the Carysfort Reef Limited
Edition comprises just fifty pieces, each with a blue dial and
SuperLuminova-filled hour markers and hands. The self-
winding Oris 798 (base SW 330-1) movement that powers the
watch offers hours, minutes, seconds, 24 hours and date, with
a power reserve of forty-two hours.
The watch’s 43.5mm yellow gold case provides water
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Sales of the first gold Oris Aquis
watches help to save coral reefs.
Oris Partnership with
Coral Restoration
Foundation
resistance to 300 meters and features an 18-karat security
crown and a bi-color rotating bezel. The caseback has a
sapphire crystal inlay decorated with a Carysfort Reef motif
and the number of the watch within the edition.
The watch’s namesake, Carysfort Reef, is in the Florida
Keys National Marine Sanctuary near Key Largo, and it is
part of the Florida Reef Tract—the third largest barrier reef
in the world and the only barrier reef in the U.S. Since 2014
the Coral Restoration Foundation has been working to
restore the reef, which has severely degraded over recent
decades. The foundation has made great strides, this year
aiming to return 30,000 corals to the reef—up from 25,000
last year.
And this is where the Oris Carysfort Reef Limited edition
steps in. Oris is donating three watches to the cause, slated
for auction over the next few months, and the funds raised
will go directly to supporting the foundation’s work.
The watch, available in April, is fitted on a blue rubber-
coated leather strap with an 18-karat gold pin buckle.
Price: $19,000.