SpotlightWhere The Tide Rolls In: Introducing The Oris Aquis Dat Watt Limited Edition II

Hölstein-based watch manufactures Oris are pioneers when it comes to social and environmental change. With their ‘Change for the better’ mantra, Oris have been collaborating with organisations that work to preserve the environment—protecting lakes and aquatic animals, reducing plastic waste, supporting aerial firefighters, and promoting sustainable deer leather, among others. One of Oris’s partnerships to promote environmental change is their tie-up with the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS)—which resulted in the Dat Watt Limited Edition in 2021. This year, as a symbol of their renewed commitment to CWSS’s mission to preserve the Wadden Sea, Oris release the Dat Watt Limited Edition II. The beautiful and meaningful salt marsh-inspired Aquis timepiece with a shaded green dial is christened for the local German term for the Wadden Sea.

See The Line Where The Sky Meets The Dat Watt Sea

Spanning the geographical boundary of three countries—Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands—the Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken intertidal flats system in the world. This means that the area gets submerged by the ocean during high tide. It is also a protected UNESCO heritage site. Despite this, threats from over-fishing, pollution, climate change, tourism and shipping put pressure on the sensitive ecosystem. The CWSS work to preserve the area and its biodiversity. Around 2,300 species of plants and animals thrive in this salt marsh, which, incidentally, is also an important stop for birds migrating from the Arctic region to warmer equatorial destinations. Besides, salt water helps preserve plants, preventing rot and controlling the release of carbon dioxide, which, in the long run, is what helps mitigate climate change.

Dat Watt And The Time To Watch Important Causes

Oris’s collaboration with the CWSS may seem like a cause with little connection to people in locations too far to face an impact. But climate change is something that affects everyone all over the world—today, unprecedented weather phenomena are real and tangible. With their beautiful, functional and meaningful timepieces, Oris are creating awareness about the necessity for change. “Oris have opened the doors to an audience that we could not have reached on our own,” says Anja Domnick, programme officer at the Trilateral Cooperation, CWSS. “Our audience are people who know the Wadden Sea and live, visit or work here. Through Oris’s channels, people from all over the globe get to hear about the Wadden Sea.”

“Oris have opened the doors to an audience that we could not have reached on our own,” says Anja Domnick, programme officer at the Trilateral Cooperation, CWSS

Oris Aquis Dat Watt Limited Edition II

Inspired by the landscape of the Wadden Sea, the Oris Aquis Dat Watt Limited Edition II features a shaded green dial, with a deep forest green around six o’clock, marshy brownish-green near the middle and a bluish sea green around the upper part of the watch face. These nature-inspired hues shine through in their distinct shimmering shades.

The Oris Aquis Dat Watt Limited Edition II features a shaded green dial, with a deep forest green around six o’clock, marshy brownish-green near the middle and a bluish sea green around the upper part of the watch face. These nature-inspired hues shine through in their distinct shimmering shades

A functional diver’s watch through and through, the 43.5mm case of the Oris Aquis dive watch is water-resistant to 300m, owing to its screwed-down crown with guards, and a similarly sealed steel caseback. On the caseback is an engraving of the Wadden Sea coastline, spanning three countries from Den Helder in The Netherlands to Skallingen in Denmark. The watch features a unidirectional-rotating steel bezel with a tungsten insert for the dive-timer minutes scale, bold, Super-LumiNova-filled hands and indexes, and a luminous small seconds hand in a sub-dial at nine for divers to ensure that the watch is working. A recessed circular track around the middle of the dial indicates the date via a white dash.

Powered by the Oris 743 calibre, the Dat Watt Limited Edition II features timekeeping, small seconds, date and date-corrector functions, and offers a power reserve of 38 hours.

The Oris Dat Watt Limited Edition II is mounted on a three-link stainless steel bracelet, and comes with an additional blue rubber strap

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The watch is presented in a special box with an additional strap and a clasp extension, and a strap changing tool

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In a 2,009-piece run—a number that commemorates the year the Wadden Sea received its UNESCO world heritage status—the Oris Dat Watt Limited Edition II melds both form and function, while beautifully highlighting the need for environmental awareness and, subsequently, ‘change for the better’.