The Return of the Oris Rectangular for the 2021 Assortment

Maybe not the best-known assortment at Oris, the Rectangular is again with new proportions, vibrant dials and straps. A basic costume watch with easy Artwork Deco traces, the newest case measurement of the Oris Rectangular is designed to attraction to women and men alike.

In the event you go to the Oris web site and browse the Rectangular assortment, you will notice 4 fashions pop up, the 4 new fashions we’re protecting on this article. Nevertheless, in case you do a generic seek for the Oris Rectangular mannequin, some hyperlinks will take you again to an older Oris web site displaying a number of Rectangular fashions starting from date, chronograph, GMT and even girls’s fashions. The purpose being that the Rectangular household just isn’t new, though it’s laborious to ascertain the precise yr of its debut. Be that as it could, the Rectangular is a classy costume watch with among the seriousness of basic rectangular watches (JLC Reverso, Cartier Tank) mitigated by its vibrant dials and straps.

The brand new Rectangular watches are available in brightly polished stainless-steel circumstances with a width of 25.50mm and a size of 38mm, a great deal smaller than different time-date Rectangular fashions of the previous with their 30mm x 44mm dimensions. Choosing up on the elegant, streamlined design cues of Artwork Deco, the stepped case flanks intensify its geometry and the light camber of the case ensures a comfortable match on the wrist.

The 2 rectangular railway tracks on the dial echo the oblong case and have clear, white markings on the three colored dials – Bordeaux, blue and anthracite – and black markings on the white dial. Arabic numerals at 12, 3 and 9 o’clock are additionally printed in an Artwork Deco font consolidating the retro vibe of the watch, whereas the hour markers are angled to attract the attention out in direction of the case. The second rectangular monitor within the centre of the dial has 11 massive dots comparable to the hours, barring the 6 o’clock place the place a discreet date window has been inserted. The luminous sword-shaped hour and minute arms and the stick seconds hand solely attain the primary rectangular monitor, which is odd given that there’s a second peripheral monitor for the minutes/seconds.

Inside the brand new Rectangular fashions is Oris calibre 561, a Swiss-made automated time-and-date motion with an ETA 2671 base, an influence reserve of 38 hours, instantaneous date and stop-seconds. The mineral glass caseback permits a view of the motion.

Three of the 4 references are accompanied by matching color straps, though the white dial mannequin comes on a yellow strap. All 4 include a quick-change strap system. The Rectangular watch assortment is out there now, and the watches retail for CHF 1,800.

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