The Oris Big Crown Lou Gehrig Limited Edition is a watch with a story worth knowing. Lou Gehrig played 2,130 consecutive games for the New York Yankees across 15 seasons – a record that still stands as one of the most extraordinary feats in American sport. When he stepped to the microphone at Yankee Stadium on July 4th, 1939, already diagnosed with ALS, he called himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
He died two years later. This watch is a tribute to his legacy. It's not a logo slapped on a standard production piece – the Big Crown Pointer Date has been reworked from dial to caseback to tell Gehrig's story in material detail. The 40mm multi-piece stainless steel case carries the Big Crown signature coin-edge bezel and oversized screw-in crown, with a domed sapphire crystal featuring inner AR coating and a screwed caseback engraved with Gehrig's farewell speech scene.
The silver dial wears a vertically brushed finish chosen to evoke Gehrig's nickname – the Iron Horse – and the Yankees' blue and white palette runs throughout: blue minute track, blue outlines on the hour markers, and white-lumed details creating a warm contrast against the silver.
Rather than the 12 Arabic numerals of the standard Big Crown Pointer Date, this edition uses a mix of numerals and indices that evokes watch design from the 1920s and 1930s – Gehrig's era. The number 4 on the date ring is singled out in blue, marking the jersey number retired by the Yankees in 1940 and the detail that anchors every other design decision on the dial.
The watch ships on a brown leather strap double-stitched like a baseball glove, with an additional blue, white, and grey Yankee-coloured NATO strap and a strap change tool included. Each watch is delivered in a special presentation box with a stamped baseball card. Powering this tribute is the Oris Calibre 754 – the same dependable automatic that runs the standard Big Crown Pointer Date – with a 41-hour power reserve, instantaneous date jump, date…
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