Skin in the game

The Oris x Cervo Volante collaboration begins with three Big Crown Pointer Date watches. Each has a gradient dial inspired by Alpine hues and a strap made of sustainable deer leather. They come with a pouch and a card holder made of the same material. But they’re not limited, and nor is this is a one-time deal.

Cervo Volante

In 2017, friends Kadri Vunder Fontana, a biotechnology engineer and experienced businesswoman, and Conny Thiel-Egenter, a biologist specialising in nature protection and wildlife and habitat management, founded Cervo Volante. Their vision was to take the waste, specifically deer skins, and transform them into beautiful, hard-wearing and ultimately sustainable footwear and accessories. Their business has grown quickly. A year ago and on learning of Oris’s Change for the Better campaign, they approached us and asked if we’d like to collaborate on a sustainable deer leather strap project. We jumped at the opportunity.

Cervo Volante’s hand-crafted products, low-impact methods and huge vision have brought us a great deal of joy. Not only are their leather shoes and accessories beautiful, they also tell stories in a way typical massproduced equivalents never could.

For example, they keep imperfections that occur during the life of a deer in their skins, where many companies would discard them. Their skins are never the product of farming, and they never require chemicals or fertilizers. And if the skins weren’t used in this way, they’d simply be burned. Cervo Volante has also employed Switzerland’s last two remaining tanneries, both of which use 100 per cent vegetable tanning processes.

• REFERENCE01 754 7779 4063-Set

• CASEBig Crown, 38.00 mm, 1.496 inches, Stainless steel

  • MATERIALMulti-piece stainless steel case
  • SIZE38.00 mm, 1.496 inches
  • TOP GLASSSapphire, domed on both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
  • CASE BACKStainless steel, screwed, see-through mineral glass
  • OPERATING DEVICESStainless steel screw-in security crown
  • WATER RESISTANCE5 bar
  • INTERHORN WIDTH19 mm

MOVEMENTAutomatic winding pointer date developed by Oris

• NUMBEROris 754, base SW 200-1
• DIMENSIONSØ 25.60 mm, 11 1/2’’’
• FUNCTIONSCentre hands for hours, minutes and seconds, date centre hand, instantaneous date, date corrector, fine timing device and stop-second
• WINDINGAutomatic winding
• POWER-RESERVE38 hrs
• VIBRATIONS28’800 A/h, 4 Hz
• JEWELS26

• DIALGrey

  • MATERIALGrey dial
  • LUMINOUS MATERIALIndices, numbers and hands with Superluminova C1/C3

• STRAP/BRACELETLeather

• EXTRASSpecial box, certificate

• WARRANTY2 Years 
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