By Ryan Johnson

It is  World Oceans Day tomorrow and many people around the globe are focusing on how to keep the oceans clean,  how to stop over fishing and more. After all, the ocean generates a good majority of the oxygen we breathe and it helps regulate our climate. Many watch brands also focus on cleaning up the world’s oceans and are taking a pro-active stance not only on World Oceans Day, but also all year long.
Oris is one of those brands. The company offers a Clean Ocean Limited Edition watch that is created in association with a  new ocean-conservation organization that is working to turn plastic into energy.

According to the United Nations Environment Program, more than 8 million tons of plastic pollute the oceans annually.   This can contribute to the indirect  intake of dangerous toxic materials by humans as we consume fish that have eaten plastics. With this in mind, Swiss brand Oris has been working with a host of environmentally conscious organizations for the past few years, including the Coral Restoration Foundation. The brand also has adopted the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Screening, a young organization that’s developing technology that to keep the world’s water clean by collecting plastic before it enters the ocean. The Oris partnership works on creating a prototype floating platform (inverted sedimentaion) that would capture plastics floating on the surface and slighlty below the surface using fins  to find the plastics in  rivers and esturaries that enter the oceans, and then convert that plastic into energy or biodegradeable plastics.

In sync with this association, Oris releases the Clean Oceans Limited Edition watch. Part of the brand’s high-performance Aquis diver’s watch series, the blue-dial timepiece is water-resistant to 30 bar (300 meters). It is equipped with a uni-directional rotating bezel, an aqua blue ceramic insert and features a medallion made of recycled PET plastic that is set into the watch’s case back. Just  2,000 pieces will be produced — each sold in a box made of environmentally friendly algae.

The  case is crafted in stainless steel and measures 39.5mm in diameter. The Aqua blue dial has luminous hands and indices with Super-LumiNova(R), and a top sapphire domed crystal is treated with an anti-reflective coating for easy underwater readability.The watch is equipped with  an extension for wear over a wetsuit. Powered by the Oris 733 automatic winding movement, the timepiece offers hours, minutes and seconds, as  well as a date window with instantaneous date corrector. Just 2,000 pieces will be made, each retailing for approximately $2,200.