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The brand's second collaboration with The Muppets proves that pigs can fly!
The English phrase “pigs might fly” is used to express the impossibility of something happening. Well, Oris has just given wings to one of the most famous pigs in popular culture with its new ProPilot X Miss Piggy. Combining the sharp looks of the ProPilot X Collection in a reduced 34mm steel case with a hot pink dial, the new watch would have provoked a rush of compliments (in French) from Miss Piggy, the fabulous diva from The Muppet Show. Following the green ProPilot X Kermit Edition, this second collaboration with The Muppets will delight fans of Jim Henson’s larger-than-life pig in a platinum wig – or create a bit of a storm for more conservative members of the watch community.
A somewhat surprising model to honour the glamorous Muppet character, Oris has chosen its ProPilot X case, the brand’s edgiest and most contemporary model. While the brand is renowned for its historical aviation classics like the Big Crown Pointer Date, the 44mm ProPilot X of 2019 was envisioned as a new-generation stealth pilot’s watch and propelled by the brand’s automatic calibre 115 in a skeletonised version. A few years later, the 39mm ProPilot X appeared with the in-house automatic calibre 400, a model that was designated for the bright green Kermit Edition in 2023.
The latest ProPilot X Miss Piggy shrinks to 34mm and replaces the matte titanium armour with stainless steel. Still retaining its sharp, angular features, knurled bezel and crown guards protecting the screw-down crown, the 100m water-resistant case highlights its architecture with brushed and polished finishings. The integrated steel bracelet, with its brushed central links and polished external links, is fitted with a folding “lift” clasp designed to look like an aircraft seat buckle.
Although the ProPilot X is about as far removed from a traditional pilot’s watch as Miss Piggy is from a barnyard pig, the mission at Oris was clearly to have some fun. Regarded as an unabashedly confident figure, the watch captures Miss Piggy’s penchant for loud colours with its hot pink dial punctuated with a lab-grown baguette-cut diamond at noon.
Unlike the Kermit ProPilot X, which has the frog’s smiling face popping up in the date window on the first day of every month, there is no date window, and Miss Piggy’s image is not featured on the dial. The applied indices are purple, and there is no luminescent material on markers or hands.
Turning the watch over reveals a small porthole opening on the screw-down and mirror-polished caseback. This spyhole reveals a picture of Miss Piggy’s face that appears and disappears with the rotations of the lilac rotor. Another difference with the larger Kermit Edition regards the movement. Given the smaller dimensions of the case, the movement powering the watch is the Oris 531, based on the Sellita SW100 automatic (a clone of the small ETA 2671) with a 4Hz frequency, a 42-hour power reserve and stop-seconds.
While some could argue that the watch conforms to the “shrinking, pinking and diamond sprinkling” formula employed to transform masculine watches into feminine ones, the ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition is an invitation to embrace Miss Piggy’s flair for hogging the limelight. The watch is available this month and retails for CHF 2,800. More information at Oris.ch.
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The ProPilot X, with its stunning case design, could be a knock-out, in multiple iterations. Alas, Oris, in its dial colours, lurches from the drab to the garish. There is a place for whimsy in horology, but it is not in the four-figure price range. Oris, my first acquisition was one of your Pointer Dates. How about the 39mm titanium PPX again, but with an ice-blue sunburst dial? I cannot return to you, Oris, as long as you continue to trifle.