What can be said about Will Ferrell as a superstar watch collector that hasn’t already been said?
The man knows how to pose with a watch. He knows how to pick an excellent watch. He can find special pieces without spending more than a few hundred bucks. He’s a true watch guy through and through, and one of his favorite brands is also one of the most fun in the oft-stuffy Swiss watch industry. Will Ferrell is an Oris man.
Oris is an independent Swiss maker founded in 1904 in Hölstein, Switzerland. The brand’s long history of pilot’s watch production and its affordable pricing have made it popular with a growing cadre of young watch collectors. In addition to its pilot’s watches, Oris also produces a slew of awesome dive watches within its Divers Sixty-Five collection, a vintage-inspired line of aquatic adventure pieces that offer excellent looks and solid Swiss-made movements for just a couple thousand bucks.
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Oris and Ferrell are a fitting match because both don’t take themselves too seriously. After releasing a Kermit-themed watch last year, VJ Geronimo, Oris’s CEO for the Americas, said he wanted to “make people smile.” A quote that just as easily could have come from the comedian.
Ferrell apparently feels so much affinity with the brand he wore two different Oris watches this past week while promoting Will & Harper, a Netflix documentary about a road trip Ferrell takes with an old friend after she came out as a trans woman. In one interview, the veteran comedian matched his shirt to his watch: On his right wrist can be seen the excellent Divers Sixty-Five Date 40.00 in forest green, with a stainless steel case, a matching rivet-style bracelet, a green count-up bezel, and a matching green dial with applied indices and a date window at 6 o’clock. Powered by the Oris Calibre 733, it’s just $2,700—a relative bargain in the high-falutin world of Swiss horology.
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Ferrell also showed off a left-of-center Oris that punches up the fun. The Aquis ‘Taste of Summer’ Watermelon Edition is part of the brand’s Acquis line of more modern divers. This one is a limited-production piece with a killer red-pink dial is housed in a 41.5mm stainless steel case with a red and white ceramic bezel insert and a steel multi-link bracelet. It’s fun, it’s relatively affordable, it’s water resistant to 300m, and it’s the color of watermelon. What’s not to like?
Ferrell is perhaps the most enjoyable follow in all the wide world of celebrity watch spotting—he doesn’t take the whole “watch” thing too seriously, but he clearly loves watches. Take a page out of this guy’s book, fellas. Watches, at the end of the day, are meant to be fun.
