![]() ![]() It was the context that made my discomfort about the watch fade. Although this article is about the Oris Aquis and doesn’t aim to be a travel guide, it’s important to explain something about our whereabouts just to get you the right vibe. ![]() By the way, “we” means me and my son Rieks, who I gratefully used as a model or photographer from time to time. This little village with 4,000 inhabitants (give or take) houses the Croatia Divers dive center where we planned to dive. After landing in Split and taking a ferry for three hours the next day, we arrived in Vela Luka at Korčula Island. “ Wenn shon, Denn shon!” as zee Zjurmans would say. And that’s how I ended up squeezed in an old Transavia Boeing 737-7K2 flying from Rotterdam/The Hague airport to Split in Croatia, looking somewhat uncomfortably at my wrist. Well, despite that, I went in all the way and gratefully accepted the blue two-tone Aquis Date Calibre 400 with the almost fluorescent blue rubber strap. The radiant colors of the new Aquis don’t fit that image. I wear a matte-black-dialed watch with stainless steel bracelet 80% of the time. It wasn’t that I thought that the Aquis wouldn’t be fit for the job, but I guess you’re familiar with my relatively conservative taste by now. ![]() Oris Aquis Date Calibre 400 in steel and goldĪt first, I was reluctant to accept that offer. Immediately and generously, he offered to let me take one of those and use it for my diving trip. He brought samples of the newly introduced bicolor Oris Aquis Date Caliber 400. Coincidentally, at the same time, our local Dutch Oris hero Gijs (pronounced “ gice“, rhyming with “the price is nice”) visited us. Here’s the story.Ī week or so before my diving trip to Croatia, I discussed with my colleagues at Fratello HQ which watch(es) I should bring. Nevertheless, it surely didn’t disappoint. But the two-tone Oris Aquis Date Caliber 400 that I took out for diving undoubtedly aims to be more beautiful than functional. What happens if you take a watch diving that obviously isn’t aimed at divers? Admittedly, Oris offers the Aquis as a divers’ watch, and within the collection, some models do fit that role… If any mechanical divers’ watch would, that is. ![]()
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