Oris Dexter Gordon Limited Edition Watch


The Oris Dexter Gordon Limited Edition Watch

$1,900 USD


Ref. No. 01 733 7721 4083 LS, Ø 40.00mm Limited to 1,000 pieces. Release Date: February 15th, 2017.

Celebrate Dexter's 94th Birthday (February 27th, 2017) with the New Oris Dexter Gordon Limited Edition!

The Oris Dexter Gordon Limited Edition is the seventeenth jazz watch made by world-renowned watch company, Oris. In keeping with the company’s previous jazz watches, it is a classic, deeply stylish piece. Its look is calm and harmonious, a reflection on Dexter’s famously warm, sociable personality.

The watch has a 40mm stainless steel case, a sunray-finished gray dial and a dark brown leather strap. The warm feel reflects Dexter’s personality.


Product Features 

  1. Automatic movement Oris Cal. 733, based on SW 200-1 with date window at 6 o’clock
     
  2. Multi-piece stainless steel case and crown with sapphire crystal domed on both sides, with anti-reflective coating inside. Water-resistant to 5 bar
     
  3. Screwed stainless steel case back engraved with ‘Long Tall Dex’ in brass color and limited edition number
     
  4. Sunray-finished gray dial with polished indices and nickel hour and minute hands. Polished, gold-plated, extended second hand
     
  5. Dark brown leather strap with stainless steel folding clasp 
     
  6. Luxurious wooden box with bronze medal engraved with ‘Long Tall Dex’, as per detailing on the watch’s case back
     

The watch’s case back is engraved with the words ‘Long Tall Dex’, Dexter’s nickname.


Oris has included a number of subtle touches that reference the great man. The index at 12 o’clock is shaped like a saxophone reed, while ‘DEXTER GORDON’ is spelled out around the dial, one letter per index. The central seconds hand is brass-coloured like a saxophone and has an extended counterbalance, a reference to Dexter’s nickname ‘Long Tall Dex’, which is also engraved on the watch’s case back.
 


The index at 12 o’clock is shaped like a saxophone reed while the name DEXTER GORDON is spelled around the watch's dial.

The Oris Dexter Gordon Limited Edition is limited to 1,000 pieces and will be available from January, priced USD $1,900. ‘Jazz to me is a living music,’ Dexter once said. ‘It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, the hopes of the people.’

The Oris Dexter Gordon Limited Edition comes in a luxurious wooden box with a special medal engraved with ‘Long Tall Dex’