This release makes me feel like olive green has a way of dragging a dive watch out of the pool and into surplus-store territory. It reads as field gear more than water gear, even when the case underneath is rated to go deep. Oris seems to understand that pull, and its latest release leans into it instead of fighting it. The dial is a matte khaki-olive the brand ties directly to vintage military equipment, sitting on a diver that has spent the past two years quietly taking over for one of Oris’s most familiar models. Say hello to the new olive green Oris Divers Date.
To place it, you have to go back to where this line comes from. Oris built its first dive watch in 1965, a 36mm piece called the Waterproof, and revived that look as the Divers Sixty-Five in 2015. In late 2024, the brand reworked and renamed the collection as the Divers Date, doubling water resistance to 200m and swapping the old aluminum bezel for hard-wearing ceramic. Black, blue, and beige carried it from there. Olive green is the first color added since that relaunch, so it shows up with something to prove.
At first glance, the color does most of the talking, and the khaki tone hands the watch a more utilitarian vibe than the earlier trio. The rest of the package stays true to the current Divers Date recipe. Applied hour markers and hands carry Super-LumiNova, including the lollipop seconds hand that lets a diver confirm the watch is still running underwater. Light plays off the beveled markers and the polished case sides, then goes flat across that matte dial. The case measures 39mm across, 12.1mm thick, and 46.5mm lug to lug, which keeps it in genuinely easy-wearing range. Oris ships it on a quick-change steel bracelet with a black rubber strap in the box, and the 19mm lug width leaves room to experiment.
Inside is the Oris 733, a Sellita SW200-1 base good for 41 hours of power reserve. It sits in the catalog next to Oris’s in-house Calibre 400, and anyone weighing the two will clock the gap in both spec and price. The exhibition caseback shows the movement through mineral glass rather than sapphire, which is easy to miss given the sapphire crystal up front. Pricing lands at 2,450 CHF, or roughly $2,800 in the US, putting the olive Divers Date in a busy stretch of the market beside the Longines Legend Diver and within reach of entry Tudor territory. Where that leaves the value math is a question each buyer can settle for themselves.
None of that is new for anyone who has followed the line, and that might be the point. The Divers Date was already doing its job before this dial showed up. What olive green adds is character, the kind that reads on a wrist without shouting for it. Whether it pulls buyers off the default black dial, or just gives the range a fourth strong option, is the part worth watching once these reach dealers this month.
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Michael Peñate is an American writer, photographer, and podcaster based in Seattle, Washington. His work typically focuses on the passage of time and the tools we use to connect with that very journey. From aviation to music and travel, his interests span a multitude of disciplines that often intersect with the world of watches – and the obsessive culture behind collecting them.