Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

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The brand is delighted to introduce the latest co-creation, the Sun Wukong Limited Edition, a 2,000-piece limited-edition version of our high-performance Aquis Date diver’s watch that’s been designed and produced in partnership with the Shanghai Animation Film Studio Co. (SAFS): Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

The watch celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Chinese animated feature film, The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven, which was produced by the Wan brothers and originally released by SAFS in 1961 during the Second Golden Era of the Chinese film industry.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

The Monkey King, or Sun Wukong in Mandarin Chinese, is a legendary mythical figure from the 16th-century Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. The story tells of how Sun Wukong, a monkey born from stone, acquires supernatural powers before rebelling against heaven.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

In the story, the Monkey King acquires a red pillar with golden tips that he shrinks to become a staff to fight his enemies and their unjust ways with, creating the “uproar” described in the title. Today, the Monkey King is an icon of Chinese culture recognised around the world.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

The challenge with this charming collaboration was to reimagine a familiar, culturally hugely significant story in a watch. Watches offer a small, largely static canvas – how to show the furious motion of a monkey with superpowers in such a small space?

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

Oris’s designers saw an opportunity in the Monkey King’s staff, a magical red and golden pillar he uses to defeat his enemies. The seconds hand became that weapon, red with golden tips. To express how fast the Monkey King spins it in battle, the designers abstracted the form, adding repeating flashes of blue that diminish and return in size and colour to suggest constant motion.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

The effect is intoxicating, creating a tangible and yet otherworldly impression of a fast-spinning staff, which becomes almost audible as you look at it.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

Beyond its unique, playful aesthetic, the Sun Wukong Limited Edition carries the same quality signifiers and refined silhouette the Oris Aquis Date has become known for.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

It has a 41.5 mm stainless steel case and a uni-directional rotating bezel that’s equipped with an ocean blue ceramic bezel that plays an appreciable role in delivering the watch’s singular character. Crown protectors, a screw-down crown and a stainless steel bracelet with an extendable folding clasp serve as a reminder of the watch’s impeccable underwater credentials – as the dial indicates, the watch is water-resistant to 30 bar (300 metres). Inside it is an automatic mechanical movement that provides the watch with its sweeping, “spinning” central seconds hand.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

Completing the story, the case back is engraved with the head of Sun Wukong and his staff, while the same dial abstraction repeats on the special presentation case. Only 2,000 pieces will be made.

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition

Oris Aquis Date Sun Wukong Limited Edition Technical Specifications

Reference 733 7766 4185-Set

Functions

  • Hours, minutes and central sweep seconds hands,
  • date with quick setting,
  • stop second device,
  • date window at 6 o’clock

Movement

  • Number Oris 733
  • Winding Automatic
  • Power reserve 38 hours

Case

  • Case Multi-piece stainless steel case
  • Size 41.50 mm (1.634 inches)
  • Top glass Sapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
  • Case back Stainless steel, screwed, special engravings
  • Operating devices Stainless steel screw-in security crown
  • Water resistance 30 bar (300 metres)

Dial

  • Blue
  • Luminous material Indices and hands filled with Super-LumiNova®

Strap

  • Multi-piece stainless steel metal bracelet,
  • security folding clasp with extension

Limited edition 2,000 pieces, special presentation box
Swiss retail price CHF 2,350
Available November 2021

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