When you listen the words, strictly mechanical Swiss watch, Oris must come to mind. These extraordinary timepieces are the creation of watch makers, Paul Cattin and Georges Christian. Over 100 years ago, in Holstein, Switzerland, these two men took a closed watch factory (Lohner and Company), and turned it into Oris. The name of the company that would change the industrial history of Switzerland, came from a near by brook and valley there in the northwestern part of the region. With their meager start, they were accompanied with less than 30 factory workers. In 1904, Cattin and Georges set out and made their primary watch, an great pocket watch with roman numerals and gold case.
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rBy 1921 Oris had expanded and built ten other assemblage plants, scattered throughout Switzerland. During the 20′s, Oris started out to fit simple buckles to their pocket watches. In doing this they turned pocket watches into totally functioning wrist watches. Before this point, the watches had either hung from a chain or fit like a bracelet that had a clasping system. Crafted with rich leather and gold, the wrist watches continued to be a successful time piece. The creation of this clean, sophisticated watch changed the industry of watches forever.
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rUntil 1928, the company was ran by it is founder Georges Christian, who sadly passed, leaving the company to his brother-in-law. Continuing a tradition of high quality work, Oris begins to create it is own watch escapements making it an integrated manufacturer. For this fragile work, women who were highly skilled aided in this percentage of the production.
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rTransitioning in the late 40′s, Oris begins the manufacturing of clocks. At this point World War II was in full swing and the clocks became highly sought after. The clocks popularity was shown when the sales for the company increased. European clients were amid the necessary purchasers of the clocks. In 1949 the clock motion with an eight-day power-reserve was with great success launched as well. With over 800 employees, the original Oris watch factory in Holstein, was expanded in 1961, and was considered one of the biggest of ten watch manufacturers in Switzerland. Four years later, the widely known and esteemed Oris automatic motion went into production, which soon developed the legendary Oris motion 645 with automatic winding ability.
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rIn 1970, leading the way with the basi chronograph, Chronoris, is premiered on to the market. From the very introductory model, the stop watch collection was a big success. The Chronoris had style inspired by racing, supplying a classic style that is still very popular today. In 2005 a prototype was returned to production, and proved to be an stimulating come back.
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rAs designs continued to become more innovative and encompassing, Oris introduced analogue time displays in the late 1990′s. This cutting edge invention integrated push-button time adjustment. Now, over 100 years later, Oris moves forward designing exceedingly well crafted watches. Today you will find fixed edition time pieces that are inspired by music, cars, and aviation, each with it is own distinct style and class.
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SOMETIMES IN APRIL – DVD Movie
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 One of the best films of the new year,
By Russell Fanelli
HBO proceeds to make particular films that will have to be seen in theaters and Sometimes in April is no exception. Without sensationalizing the violence of the Hutus versus the Tutsis in 1994, director/writer Raoul Peck nonetheless dramatizes the horror of the mass murder that took place in Rwanda.
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A Film Even More Powerful for it is Simplicity of Presentation
By Grady Harp
The gruesome disaster of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 perfectly ought to become public psychological result of perception learning and reasoning if we are to maintain the watch for sensations or changes of similar acts in the present and the future. HOTEL RWANDA was a fine film that capitalized on the heroism of one man, and justly so, for his selfless vision that saved a lot of lives. But as far as a film that relates the same story without the special importance and significance on one hero, SOMETIMES IN APRIL is for this reviewer more powerful: the genocide speaks more loudly because it focuses on the victims.
Writer/Director Raoul Peck has devised a stunning affect with this film made for HBO. The details of the history of the rebellion of the Tutsis versus the Hutus is without doubt or question explained and made far more understandable than in former efforts. Peck wisely utilizes the endowments of Idris Elba and Carole Karemera as the husband and wife of mixed marriage and it is their story of survival and witness that makes this examination of Rwanda so intense. Oris Erhuero and Debra Winger amidst others feel exclusively committed to this story in the way they fetch honestness and believability to their roles.
Photographed on location, this film is at original a country gorgeous to look at and then the beauty of the land filled with corpses is almost unbearable. The contrast is typical of the way Raoul Peck has sculpted this primary film. By Hollywood standards as well as by Public Information standards, this is a film that will have to be seen by everyone as not only a fine movie but also an important documentation of a disaster that ought to have never been ignored. Grady Harp, April 05
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