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Oris Artelier Complication 39.5mm Mens Watch Blue
Ref. 01 782 7811 4055-07 8
Sits in Oris’s upper tier here — more premium than three quarters of the Oris watches we list, which start at £1,400.
Price range £1,400 to £5,350 across 50 Oris watches in stock.Revealed at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026, this is the Artelier's return after years away — the most formally dressed collection in the Oris catalogue, now reinterpreted by Lena Huwiler, who at 24 became the youngest designer to lead a major Oris release. Her brief was to keep the lineage intact while stripping back the complexity that made earlier versions difficult to read. The result is a dial that does exactly two things: a moon phase at noon, its disc patterned with stars against the midnight blue field, and a 24-hour second time zone at 6 o'clock. The Calibre 782 shares its bones with the previous 781 but loses the gearing that drove the surplus subdials — so what remains is genuinely useful rather than merely present. At 39.5mm the case sits where a dress complication should, and at 11.8mm it is slim enough to clear a cuff without ceremony. The layered dial construction — a curved outer ring carrying stepped applied indices around a textured central disc — catches light differently at different angles without ever becoming difficult to parse. Moon phase corrections and the GMT function run through the crown and a single pusher between 4 and 5 o'clock, which keeps the case profile clean. The red rotor is visible through the exhibition caseback, one of the more cheerful small details on a watch that otherwise plays it straight.
- Reference
- 01 782 7811 4055-07 8
- Brand
- Oris
- Collection
- Artelier
- Case size
- 39.5mm
- Case thickness
- 11.8mm
- Lug width
- 20mm
- Case material
- Stainless steel
- Case shape
- Round
- Dial
- Blue
- Crystal
- Sapphire
- Movement
- Automatic
- Calibre
- 782
- Functions
- GMT, Moonphase
- Water resistance
- 30m
- Bracelet / strap
- Stainless steel bracelet
- Strap colour
- Silver
- Clasp
- Butterfly clasp
- Lume
- Super-LumiNova
- Retailer
- Mappin & Webb
Additional specifications
- Lug-to-lug
- 45.5mm
- Power reserve
- 41 hours
- Origin
- Swiss made
Learn more about Oris
Paul Cattin and Georges Christian took over an empty factory in Hölstein in 1904 and named the company after a nearby gorge. It stayed independent, and stayed in that valley, for its entire history.
Oris built its reputation on volume mechanical watches made properly. By the 1960s it was among the largest Swiss employers in the sector, producing hundreds of thousands of movements a year. Its most curious historical footnote is regulatory: Swiss law restricted the number of jewels a watch could contain under certain classifications, and Oris fought a decade-long legal battle to be permitted to fit lever escapements — winning in 1968.
The quartz crisis nearly ended it. The company was bought out of the ASUAG conglomerate in 1982 by two managers, Rolf Portmann and Ulrich Herzog, who took it back to mechanical watches exclusively at precisely the moment the rest of the industry was abandoning them.
That independence remains the point. Oris is one of the few Swiss houses of any scale with no group ownership, and it competes on value rather than prestige — dive watches, pilot's watches, and the Big Crown line descended from its 1938 pointer calendar. The house developed its own Calibre 400 family from 2020, offering five-day power reserves and ten-year service intervals at prices well below the norm for in-house movements.
- 1904
- Paul Cattin and Georges Christian found Oris in Hölstein.
- 1938
- The Big Crown pointer calendar is introduced.
- 1968
- Wins the legal fight to use lever escapements.
- 1982
- A management buyout returns the company to independence.
- 2020
- The in-house Calibre 400 launches.
Also in 5 collections
This watch appears in the Oris Artelier range (10), Stainless Steel Watches (2,833), Automatic Watches (1,417), Blue Dial Watches (780) and GMT Watches (208).
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What the specifications mean
A mechanical watch for everyday wear.
Strengths
- 39.5mm suits most wrists
- 45.5mm lug-to-lug keeps the 39.5mm case wearable
- Sapphire crystal, which resists scratching
- Luminous hands and markers for low light
- Second time zone for travelling
Worth knowing
- 30m means keeping it away from water
Oris Artelier Complication alternatives
Watches from other brands at a similar price, style and size, so you can see what else your budget can buy.
| Specification | 01 782 7811 4055-07 8 | L29094783 | R27108112 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £2,400 | £2,450 | £2,350 |
| Case size | 39.5mm | 40mm | 40mm |
| Water resistance | 30m | 30m | 50m |
| Movement | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic |
| Strap | Stainless steel bracelet | Leather strap | Ceramic bracelet |
| Power reserve | 41 hours | 72 hours | 80 hours |
| This watch | Closely matched |
|
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Frequently asked questions, and things you should know about this watch
Can I swim with it?
No. At 30m it will survive rain and handwashing, but not submersion of any kind.
Water resistance explainedWill the glass scratch?
Unlikely. Sapphire is second only to diamond in hardness and shrugs off everyday marking.
Sapphire, mineral and acrylic comparedDoes it need a battery?
No. It is automatic — the motion of your wrist winds it, and there is no cell to replace.
Quartz, automatic and solar comparedHow long does it run for when it's not worn?
About 41 hours fully wound — enough to survive a night off the wrist, but not a full weekend.
What size strap does it take?
20mm. Any strap of that width will fit, and on most modern watches quick-release bars make the swap a two-minute job with no tools.
Will it fit my wrist?
Lug-to-lug is 45.5mm, which suits wrists from roughly 16cm (6¼ inches) upward.
Lug-to-lug decides fit more than case diameter does.
How to size a watch to your wristIs it a men's or women's watch?
Listed as men's, though at 39.5mm it sits in the range that suits anyone.
Cheapest place to buy
Both Mappin & Webb and Goldsmiths list it at £2,400, so choose on delivery and warranty rather than price.
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