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Oris Hölstein Edition 2026: a limited watch built around reflection
Oris marks 122 years of independent watchmaking with a 250-piece edition that turns its annual founding-day tradition inward.
Oris has unveiled the Hölstein Edition 2026, a limited-edition watch released to mark the company’s founding and named for Hölstein, the Swiss village in the Waldenburg Valley that has been its home since 1904. Limited to 250 numbered pieces and priced at CHF 3,800, it reaches Oris boutiques and the brand’s eShop in June 2026. Built on the new Artelier collection, this year’s edition takes reflection as its theme, a design meant to invite a moment of pause.
The Tradition
A ritual fixed to a date
Since 2020, Oris has released a Hölstein Edition each year on the first of June, the brand’s founding date, as a tribute to its home and its independence. As one of the few Swiss houses making only mechanical watches, Oris treats the series as a yearly statement of where it comes from. The 2026 edition reads that idea literally, building a watch around the act of reflection and the perspective it invites.
The Design
The idea runs to the back
The 39.5mm stainless-steel case holds a light grey dial with a mirrored small-seconds counter and a single red seconds hand, a quiet play of light across the surface. Straight-sided hands and applied markers nod to Oris designs from the 1960s. On the reverse, an engraved Oris Bear is laser-treated to an iridescent, mirror-like finish that shifts through the colours of the rainbow as it catches the light.
The Movement
Engineered for everyday wear
Inside is the Oris Calibre 401, an automatic movement with anti-magnetic performance and a five-day power reserve, paired with an instantaneous date and a fine timing device. It is finished with a grey suede leather strap and butterfly clasp, in keeping with the watch’s understated character. The combination keeps the edition firmly practical, a mechanical watch designed to be lived with rather than left in a safe.
On The Wrist
Understated by design
At 39.5mm with a slim 11.10mm profile, the case sits easily under a cuff, while the grey suede strap softens the steel and keeps the whole watch quiet. It is the kind of piece built to disappear into daily wear and reward a second look, the red seconds hand and mirrored counter catching the light only when the wrist turns.
Availability
250 pieces, one date
The Hölstein Edition 2026 is limited to 250 numbered pieces worldwide, each delivered in a wooden box. It is available from June 2026 through Oris boutiques, the Oris eShop and retailers with eShop access, at a retail price of CHF 3,800.
The specifications
Case: Stainless steel, 39.5mm, 11.10mm thick, 3 bar water resistance, domed sapphire crystal.
Movement: Oris Calibre 401, automatic, five-day (120-hour) power reserve, anti-magnetic, instantaneous date.
Dial: Light grey, mirror-finish small-seconds counter, red small-seconds hand, Super-LumiNova hands.
Caseback: Engraved Oris Bear with rainbow-effect laser treatment.
Strap: Grey suede leather with butterfly clasp.
Edition: 250 numbered pieces, wooden box. Price: CHF 3,800. Availability: June 2026.
For Boujeez, the Hölstein Editions are among the more honest exercises in the watch calendar, a brand using its own birthday to say something about independence rather than chase a trend.
Explore the edition at Oris.