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Oris Sport/Diver

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Presentation
The Oris Sport/Diver (633-7401-40-64) comes in a black vinyl hinge case with a most basic white interior and watch holder. This is encased in a cardboard box covered with a ridged black fabric/paper embossed with the Oris logo in silver. Very simple, but quite attractive. Retailing at $775, the Oris comes with a one year warranty.
This watch is in the Oris High Mech Booklet 1, page 97.

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Case
The case of the diver is about 45mm end to end and 40mm from crown to edge with a diameter size of 37mm. It is about 11mm in depth. The stainless steel case with screw back, screw down crown with crown guards has a nicely substantial feel to it, weighing in at just under 70 grams. The case is finished quite nicely with exception to the areas not usually seen, for instance, between the lugs, where the bracelet attaches.

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The case has crown guards that protect a fairly large screw down crown. This crown is easily unscrewed to adjust date, time, or simply wind the watch, then easily screwed back down to secure the crown for water resistance.

The screw back has the Oris logo neatly etched/engraved along with WATER RESISTANT, SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL, etc

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Bracelet
The stainless steel bracelet is only 18mm in width at the lugs, but has a much bigger feel to it. Each link has five solid steel pieces, the outer ingots polished on top, brushed on bottom, the inner three all together, and all brushed. For some reason, watchmakers have had trouble removing links (only two) for adjustment. The clasp is an average flip-lock, but finished nicely: brushed on the band and polished on the clasp with the Oris logo. The band also has a "diver expansion" fold out for wearing the band over a wetsuit without re-adjusting its pins. There is also sufficient spacing in the links to leave the hair on my wrist alone!

Dial & Bezel
The dial is a wonderful charcoal gray, which sometimes flashes a bit of blue in the right light. Applied Arabic numbers at 12, 6 and 9 (silver in color), with date window at 3 (unfortunately outlined in white). The other hours are marked by applied circle markers. The numbers & circular markers are silver in color with luminescent filling. The minutes are each marked with white stenciled dashes. The dial has an outer angled bezel marked in yellow from 00 to 23 with small dots between each hour marking, effectively adding a 24 hour clock function (it is up to the wearer to know whether it is AM or PM).

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The hour hand is a large "lazy" arrow and the minute had is a large baton. The second hand is in red and this dial is not only pleasing to my eye, but instantaneously readable. In low light it is still quite readable, but the hands do not glow well enough in the dark to be easily read at night. The dial is marked "ORIS", "AUTOMATIC", "25 JEWELS", "200 METERS WP" & "SWISS MADE". It would be easy to think the dial would be cluttered with all this, but it doesn't have that appearance.

This is all protected by a flat sapphire crystal which is flush with the bezel. The bezel is brushed to offset the polish of the case. The bezel rotates unidirectionally with one click per minute. A luminescent dot at 12 fills the black triangle there. Arabic numerals are black at the tens and black painted bars at the fives. Each minute is marked by an unpainted indentation. At 10, 30 & 50, the bezel has polished "pins" protruding from the sides. This helps with grip when rotating the bezel, and adds a small amount of stylish design.

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Movement
The movement is a basic ETA 2824-2. Oris calls it their Movement cal. 633 but readily lets all know it is indeed the ETA. The Oris cal. 633/ETA 2824-2 is 25.60 mm (11.5 ''') in size, bi-directional winding, ball bearing, 25 jewels with incabloc shock absorption. It beats at 28,800 A/h (4 Hz), has a 38 hour power reserve, instantaneous date correction, and has hack feature.
This movement is also found in the Oris High Mech Booklet 1, page 105.

Accuracy
The watch has been -3 to -7 seconds slow per day, depending on resting position at night. Crown up and crown down lose about 7 seconds per day, dial up and dial down lose only about 3 per day.

Conclusions
I like this watch! It is the Oris Sport and definitely has that feel. It is quite affordable and certainly seems to have a unique design (nobody has mistaken it for any other diver watch... they just don't know what an Oris is yet). I get quite a few positive comments from friends and a few strangers. It is comfortable, rugged and easy to read. Definitely a good, honest mechanical.


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