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Oris’s mission to bring Change for the Better is gathering momentum. The watchmaker has announced the renewal of its collaboration with the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS) by a further two years, running to the end of 2025. This partnership began in 2021 with the Dat Watt Limited Edition watch and now continues with a second limited-edition piece.
The CWSS is a trilateral organisation that works to protect and conserve the Wadden Sea, an area covering 11,500km2 in northern Europe that reaches 500km along the coast of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. It’s the world’s largest unbroken tidal flats system and home to around 10,000 species of flora and fauna. Here, nature evolves almost undisturbed. Its importance to global biodiversity earned it UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2009.
Despite the protections this listing affords, the Wadden Sea – known as Dat Watt in a local dialect – faces a number of perils, mostly human-made. Overfishing, pollution, shipping, tourism and the challenges posed by climate change are among the threats to the area. The CWSS works to preserve it for future generations.
A further challenge is how to engage the next generation of conservationists in the CWSS’s mission. By extending this collaboration, Oris and the CWSS will be targeting youth-focused programmes that inspire young people, encouraging them to recognise the great power they have to bring Change for the Better.
To celebrate the renewal of this commitment, Oris presents the Dat Watt Limited Edition II. Inspired by the Aquis, it features a shimmering green dial recalling the waters of the salt marshes forming an essential part of the Wadden Sea’s diverse ecosystem. In addition to its symbolic character, this timepiece offers the performance of a diver’s watch. Its 43.5mm case is water-resistant to 300 metres and features a unidirectional rotating bezel, a screw-down safety crown complete with guard, along with luminescent hands and hour-markers to facilitate underwater readability. It comes with a blue rubber strap and a three-link stainless steel bracelet. It will be produced in a limited edition of 2,009, a nod to the year in which the Wadden Sea was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
September 07, 2023