ProPilot Altimeter

In 2014, Oris became the world’s first watch company to introduce a watch that combined an automatic mechanical movement with a mechanical altimeter in a single watch. Now, the innovative ProPilot Altimeter returns in style, with an upgraded altimeter, a slimmer profile and a lightweight case.

Since 1904, Oris has focussed on developing high-functioning watches that deliver realworld value. Having developed more than 280 unique calibres and countless watches in that time, many of them offering pioneering, useful, easy-to-use complications, the brand doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.

The ProPilot Altimeter continued the tradition by accurately relaying the time, air pressure and altitude via a single dialentirely mechanically. Full of innovation, it became a watch pilots, mountaineers, hikers and so-called “watchnerds” aspired to.

Now, after a three-year project, it has been made it even better. The new ProPilot Altimeter has an improved altimeter module, capable of indicating altitude up to 19,700 feet or 6,000 metres (as before, there are two available configurations), where previously the scales topped out at 15,000 feet or 4,500 metres.

The new watch’s case is in lightweight carbon fibre produced using an innovative process developed and perfected by Oris’ partner 9T Labs, a spin-off from the prestigious ETH Zurich university (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). It houses Calibre 793, a slimline automatic with an improved 56-hour power reserve that sits inside a case 1mm thinner than the original.

These upgrades make the new ProPilot Altimeter one of the highest performing, most innovative watches we’ve ever created.