{"id":15910,"date":"2019-03-21T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15910"},"modified":"2019-10-03T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:33:28","slug":"oris-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/03\/oris-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW! The Oris Great Barrier Reef III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Oris Great Barrier Reef III Limited Edition Aquis Watch<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/03\/baselworld-2019\/\">Baselworld 2019<\/a> has only just began, but has already given us two brand new Limited Edition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/oris-aquis-watches-c-1724_1834\/\">Aquis<\/a> watches, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/03\/oris-clean-ocean\/\">Oris Clean Ocean Limited Edition<\/a> and the Oris Great Barrier Reef Limited Edition too, both promoting and supporting the fight to save our oceans and reefs.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oris.ch\/en\/home\">Oris<\/a> have returned to the Great Barrier Reef for a limited edition timepiece, this time, as part of the luxury Swiss watchmakers new &#8216;The Oceans Project&#8217; which has been started in an effort to raise awareness of the many threats to the health and sustainability of our oceans, reefs and all the living things that need them to survive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15917 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px.jpg\" alt=\"Oris Great Barrier Reef\" width=\"343\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px-768x619.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px-930x750.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px-750x605.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px-510x411.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px-360x290.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25254_Highlighted_Features_Great_Barrier_Reef_LE_III_980x790px-120x97.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This new watch, based on the Aquis, a high performance dive watch, will directly provide support to the coral planting mission of the <a href=\"https:\/\/reefrestorationfoundation.org\/\">Reef\u00a0Restoration Foundation<\/a>, an Australian, non-profit organisation, fighting to save reefs around the world, especially The Great Barrier Reef. This model arrives with a gradient blue dial, an aqua blue ceramic bezel insert and a novel circular date window.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Oris Great Barrier Reef Limited Edition III acts as a symbol and a statement of Oris&#8217;s intent, and their mission to clean up our oceans and help to change the world for the good. This Limited Edition model has been created in partnership with the aforementioned\u00a0Reef Restoration Foundation, who were only founded back in 2016, but have been doing immense work to save the ocean. Based on one of the most popular flagship models from Oris, the Great Barrier Reef Limited Edition III is a high-performance dive watch in every way, with a uni-directional rotating bezel, water resistance up to 300m (30 Bar) and fantastic legibility and illumination for dark conditions. Inside the 43.5mm stainless steel case sits the\u00a0Oris 743\/SW 220-1 automatic winding movement, which is used to power the small seconds dial, and the fantastic circular date wheel too.\u00a0On the rear of the watch is an engraved coral reef design and the limited edition number of the watch, the box that the watch arrives in is also made from\u00a0environmentally friendly algae with recycled plastic inlays to promote a more eco-friendly way of working. This model is limited to only 2,000 pieces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII.jpg\" alt=\"Oris Great Barrier Reef\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-1110x624.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-930x523.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-510x287.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.firstclasswatches.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/25623_01_Gallery_GreatBarrierReefLimitedEditionIII-120x68.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Oris Great Barrier Reef III Limited Edition Aquis Watch Baselworld 2019 has only just began, but has already given us two brand new Limited Edition Aquis watches, the\u00a0Oris&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[6637,12,285],"tags":[425,1229,6649,6373,1230],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEW! 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