Divers Sixty-Five

The first Oris designed for diving is born in 1965: a watch with a compact size by today's standards — just over 36 mm — but already equipped with the characteristic features of a professional diver of its era, from the high-contrast dial with oversized Arabic numerals to the rotating bezel for tracking dive times. Remaining for decades a secondary chapter in the brand's history, the model is rediscovered and presented again at Baselworld in 2015, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, with a reissue philosophy faithful to the original but adapted to contemporary tastes: the case grows to 40 mm, while the dial retains the aluminum-colored finish, the vintage numerals and the one truly modern element, a small luminous triangle at 12 o'clock.

The success of that first reissue turns the Divers Sixty-Five into a genuine permanent collection, which over the years has been enriched with smaller diameters designed for slimmer wrists too (36 and 38 mm), with bronze cases that develop a natural patina over time, and with a series of dials in pastel colors — informally nicknamed "Cotton Candy" by enthusiasts — designed for a broader audience than the classic steel-and-blue of traditional divers. The reference movement remains the Oris caliber 733, an automatic based on the Sellita SW200-1 with 38 hours of power reserve.

In 2025, for the sixtieth anniversary of the original model, Oris presents a special edition that revives the 1965 aesthetic even more directly: a 40 mm case, a glossy black dial with no date window, printed indices and oversized vintage Arabic numerals treated with "Old Radium"-colored Super-LumiNova for an aged effect, and the word "WATERPROOF" on the dial in place of the more usual "AUTOMATIC" — a detail that literally echoes the terminology used on dive watches of the 1960s.