Oris Caliber 754

The Oris caliber 754 is an automatic movement with a pointer date calendar complication.

Base Movement:

You may see most sites list the Sellita SW200-1 as the base movement of the 754 (even in the Oris stock photo above, it looks like it was edited to be “SW200-1”), but it appears to actually a Sellita SW221-1 with a red Oris branded rotor. The SW221-1 is based on the SW200-1 with the addition of a pointer date complication. Unconfirmed until Oris responds with more information, check back for updates.

Oris 754 VS 754-1:

There appear to be two versions of the 754 pointer date movement. In product listings with the 754, Oris quotes a 38 hour power reserve – the same as Sellita’s quotes. In watches with the 754-1, Oris lists 41 hours of power reserve. Two examples of 754-1 powered watches (Father Time Limited Edition and Hank Aaron Limited Edition) have solid casebacks with no image of the movement available. Caliber Corner has reached out to Oris regarding this.

Update 12/24: Oris has confirmed to Caliber Corner that the -1 indicates Sellita increasing the claimed power reserve on their SW2XX based movements.

SW200-1 or SW221-1 Base Movement?

In the minimal images provided by Oris, they show a movement with an SW200-1 engraving under the balance wheel. It is typical for watch brands to reuse images of movements, especially when they all use the same base which from the back of the movement are indistinguishable to each other. However, the potential caliber confusion here comes from the fact that at one point in time, it was suspected that Oris was adding their own pointer date module on top of base 2824-2 and SW200-1 movements – the details of which are also unconfirmed. The movements with the pointer date modules still retained the SW200-1 engravings on the mainplate under the balance wheel. Eventually, Sellita started offering a pointer date version of the SW200-1 in their catalog, known as the SW221-1.

Caliber Corner will attempt to reach out to Oris for clarity and will update this post accordingly.

“Dear Oris,

We are are working on an article about the 754 movement and hoped you could provide some clarity.

Can you please confirm if the 754 is based on a Sellita SW200-1 with pointer date module assembled by Oris? Or is the 754 a complete SW221-1 from Sellita with a custom rotor?

Thank you in advance for any information you can provide.”

As of this update 1/10/24, Oris has not yet responded to the question above, but it was among other questions so we will send a follow-up with the following questions:

• Do current Oris 754 (754-1) watches have an SW200-1 or SW221-1 (technically the SW200-1 with a pointer date)?
• If using the SW200-1 base currently, does that mean Oris watchmakers at Oris operated facilities are installing a module to achieve pointer date functionality on base SW200-1 movements?
• Finally, with regards to the Oris pointer date module for the 2824-2/SW200-1, was it an Oris invented and produced module? And does it have anything in common with the module used on the SW221-1?

Additional Resources:

• More Oris mentions