Oris Pointer Date vintage automatic watch

Oris is a well known watch brand that's been around for more than 100 years. Their pointer date models are among the more collectibles for this brand. It wasn't long ago when I acquired a manual wind that ended up with the Clairvoyant. That was mainly because it was a small-sized watch and not suitable for my wrist. More recently, I was able to get another pointer date, which is larger and with a very similar design as the wife's.

There are four hands on this watch. The hour hand, the minute hand, the second hand and the pointer hand for the date.

Side view of the watch

Side view showing the crown

A closer look of the dial shows how nicely this watch has aged. The lumes are practically gone where it was on the hands and eight of the hour markers.

The movement can be seen through the transparent back. The back also says its water resistant but I had to do some research to find out it was only for 3ATM or 30m. That should be okay for the typical rain showers or washing hands.

The movement is a Cal. 574, which runs at 21,600 bph with a power reserve of up to 40h. The movement is based on the ETA Cal. 2688. The movement actually dates the watch to 1990 so this one is a 28-year old vintage.

Here is the watch side by side with the wife's manual wind pointer date.

Here's the watch on my wrist

The watch runs well gaining a few seconds per day. It lasts overnight between uses. I haven't really had the chance to time watch so I can't say if it reaches the 40h original power reserve it was supposed to have.

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