Oris has gotten behind a Seoul-based clean-up project on South Korea’s mighty Hangang River with the newest member of their Aquis diver’s watch family, the Hangang LE.
The recent partnership with the pioneering Seoul KFEM, part of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movements is certainly a worthwhile move from Oris.
The Hangang is South Korea’s second longest but most important river because it supplies water to the 10 million inhabitants of the country’s capital, Seoul.
However after years of neglect, the Hangang has been left dirty, polluted and in desperate need of restoration.
As part of the new partnership, Oris will be supporting a series of clean-up days that Seoul KFEM has scheduled for later this year.
The Hangang Limited watch aims to highlight the plight of the Hangang River in South Korea.
I’m sure that a frightening percentage of the world’s rivers are (to coin a phrase) up the swanny; they could probably all do with an LE to boast awareness.
Damn, if you put it like that, how about a watch to raise awareness for the plight of the UIGHURS? Who’d have the balls to make a watch for those poor souls?
I digress, worthy causes aside what this watch means for folks like me and you, well it’s yet another LE coo over, of course.
The Hangang LE is based on Oris’s high-performance Aquis diver’s watch and so shares all the same function and performance attributes.
It has a 43.5mm Stainless steel case with a unidirectional rotational diver’s bezel with a deep green ceramic inlay to match its dial, both of which were inspired by creek waters found at the Hangang’s source.
The Oris Hangang Limited Edition is water-resistant to 300 meters and is powered by an automatic movement that provides the watch with a sub-seconds and a circular date window.
The case-back has been decorated with an engraving of a map of the Hangang’s path across Korea, along with the watch’s LE number of 2’000 pieces. It has a Swiss MSRP of 2’500CHF.
Thoughts? Sorry to hijack my own post, folks. I feel compelled to use my modest platform to at least say something.
If you haven’t already done so PLEASE HELP BRING AWARENESS to the UIGHURS. What the CCP is doing to them is truly abhorrent. Many thanks!
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