Oris Gives the Contemporary Big Crown Pointer Date an Oxblood Red Dial

Oris has returned to one of its most recognisable signatures with a dial colour that suits the Big Crown Pointer Date particularly well.

The new oxblood red version brings a warmer, more dramatic tone to the contemporary side of the collection, while keeping the oversized crown and central pointer-date hand that have defined the line since 1938.

It’s a familiar Oris idea, but the execution is cleaner, sportier and less overtly vintage than the classic fluted-bezel models many collectors associate with the name.

At a glance

• Oris has introduced an oxblood red dial to the contemporary Big Crown Pointer Date line.
• The watch uses a 40mm stainless steel case, smooth bezel, pointer-date display and automatic Oris Calibre 754.
• It joins the permanent collection and is priced at CHF 2,000.

A Big Crown with a cleaner edge

The Big Crown Pointer Date is often thought of as Oris’s hallmark aviator’s watch, thanks to its oversized crown and date scale running around the edge of the dial.

Within the broader family, though, Oris separates the collection through movement choices and design treatments.

The best-known vintage-leaning models use details such as cathedral hands and fluted bezels, while this contemporary line takes a more pared-back route with a smooth bezel, modern dial colours and a steel bracelet format.

The oxblood red dial is the key change here, and it gives the watch a stronger visual identity without moving it away from the core Big Crown language.

It’s a deep red rather than a bright one, which matters on a watch with this much information around the dial.

The oxblood dial and pointer-date layout

The 40mm stainless steel case measures 12mm thick and 47.5mm from lug to lug, putting it in a versatile everyday range rather than the oversized end of the aviation-watch spectrum.

The case is brushed, with polished flanks, a polished smooth bezel and the collection’s signature oversized fluted crown.

A domed sapphire crystal with internal anti-reflective coating covers the dial, while the back uses a see-through mineral glass caseback.

The red dial works against white Arabic numerals for both the hour markers and the peripheral date display, making the pointer-date complication easy to read at a glance.

The raised hour numerals are treated with white Super-LumiNova, matched by luminous 5-minute triangles on the railway-style minutes track and lume inside the pencil-shaped hour and minute hands.

The arrow-tipped central date hand keeps the classic Big Crown function intact, with a red tip that ties it back into the dial colour.

A white central seconds hand completes the display without adding another competing accent.

Calibre 754 and collection position

Inside is the Oris 754, an automatic movement based on the Sellita SW 200-1.

It runs at 28,800 vibrations per hour and offers a 41-hour power reserve.

The movement is also fitted with Oris’s red oscillating weight, visible through the caseback.

This places the watch in the more accessible core Big Crown Pointer Date range rather than among the brand’s higher-tier in-house movement models.

That positioning is part of the appeal, since it keeps the historic pointer-date format, a practical automatic movement and a distinctive dial colour in one straightforward package.

Details & Specifications

For anyone who likes the Big Crown Pointer Date but wants it with less vintage costume and more modern clarity, this oxblood dial version lands in a useful middle ground.

It keeps the charm of Oris’s long-running aviation design, but the colour and cleaner case treatment give it a more contemporary pulse.