Oris has been quietly working through its ProPilot lineup, tidying up designs and sharpening proportions. Last year it was the ProPilot Date's turn. Now the brand is giving the same treatment to the more serious sibling: the ProPilot Calibre 111. This one matters more, because it carries a genuine in-house movement and sits considerably higher in the range.
The Calibre 111 has been around since the mid-2010s, first appearing in 2015 as part of the Big Crown ProPilot family. The headline feature then was the same as it is now: a manually wound manufacture movement with a ten-day power reserve. That's not a number you see often at this price tier. The update for 2026 doesn't touch the movement. What it does touch is almost everything around it.
Compared to the outgoing 44mm version, the new watch comes in smaller and more resolved. Oris has been pulling case sizes back across its sportier lines, and the ProPilot Calibre 111 follows suit. The overall design language is tighter and more cohesive, with the same direction the ProPilot Date update took last year.
What Actually Changed
The case is the most obvious difference. The previous ProPilot Calibre 111 ran at 44mm, which placed it firmly in the chunky-pilot-watch camp. The 2026 version trims that down, bringing it into a range that'll sit better on a wider spread of wrists without losing its presence on the dial side.
The dial layout and finishing have been refined too. Oris has cleaned things up, tightening the overall look in line with what the brand has been doing across the ProPilot family. The aviation-tool-watch aesthetic is still there, but it reads as more deliberate now rather than just big and busy.
The Calibre 111 movement is one of the few genuinely interesting in-house calibres Oris makes. A ten-day power reserve in a manually wound movement isn't a party trick - it's useful for anyone who doesn't wear the same watch every day and doesn't want to deal with a dead watch on Monday morning.
The Movement Is Still the Point
Oris calls Calibre 111 a manufacture movement, and it earns that label. The manually wound ebauche delivers that ten-day reserve through a series of stacked mainspring barrels. You wind it, you leave it, you pick it up a week and a half later and it's still running. For a pilot watch, there's a practical argument there beyond the marketing.
Manual winding also means no rotor bulk, which helps keep the movement and case profile cleaner. You can see the architecture through the caseback, and it's genuinely worth a look.
- Movement: Oris Calibre 111, manually wound manufacture
- Power reserve: 10 days via multiple mainspring barrels
- Previous case size: 44mm - new version is trimmed down
- Design update: Refined dial, tighter finishing, consistent with 2025 ProPilot Date refresh
- Positioning: Sits above the ProPilot Date in the Oris lineup
Who This Is For
If you've been buying Oris ProPilot Date watches and wondering what the next step up looks like, this is the answer. You're not paying for a more complicated movement in the traditional sense - there's no chronograph, no GMT hand. You're paying for a manufacture movement, a longer power reserve, and a watch that requires a bit more engagement from the wearer. You have to remember to wind it. Some people find that annoying. Others find it appealing.
It also makes sense for someone who rotates between several watches. A ten-day reserve means you can set it down for most of a week without losing the time. That's not nothing.
How It Stacks Up
At this tier of the pilot watch market, your main competitors are coming from Longines, Tudor, and the lower reaches of IWC. None of those offer a ten-day manually wound manufacture movement at a comparable price. Longines gives you more heritage and polished finishing. Tudor gives you a lot of watch for the money. IWC gives you the brand name. Oris gives you something technically distinctive that the others don't match on the power reserve front.
The knock on the old ProPilot Calibre 111 was always that the execution didn't quite match the ambition of the movement. The case felt a bit raw, the proportions a bit much. If this update has genuinely addressed that, it becomes a stronger proposition than it's ever been.
Oris hasn't announced final pricing yet, but expect it to sit clearly above the ProPilot Date range given the movement involved. Keep an eye on the official channels for confirmed numbers. For now, this is one of the more interesting updates to come out of Hölstein in a while, and the Calibre 111 deserves the attention it's finally getting again.
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