Oris Gives the Aquis Date a Kelp-Forest Dial

The confirmed specification set in the supplied material is short:

• Maker and model: Oris Aquis Date Kelp Forest Limited Edition.
• Case diameter: 41.5 mm.
• Watch type: Fratello calls it a dive watch.
• Dial: textured green, with colors and texture meant to evoke swaying kelp.
• Edition size: limited to 1,000 pieces.

A limited edition is a stated production cap. It is not, by itself, a statement about present availability, allocation, collectibility, or future demand.

The 41.5 mm diameter is also worth recording exactly. It gives the watch a specific proportion on paper without requiring any claim about how it wears, which cannot be known from the supplied excerpt. A dive watch description also needs care: the source uses that category, but the excerpt provided here does not give a water-resistance rating or cite a diving standard.

Fratello frames the release as Oris returning to ocean conservation. The same source says the watch draws inspiration from underwater kelp forests and their role in marine ecosystems.

That context changes how the dial reads. Kelp is not a generic marine color cue like blue water or white foam. It is plant life, structure, shelter, and motion. A textured green dial can therefore do more than decorate the watch: it can make the environmental reference legible before a reader reaches the edition name.

The supplied material does not identify a conservation partner, donation structure, campaign name, or the specific program tied to this edition. Those may exist elsewhere, but they are not confirmed here. For now, the safe record is that Fratello reports an ocean-conservation framing and a kelp-inspired dial, not the mechanics of any conservation project.

The available link in the supplied material is Fratello’s article, Oris Introduces The Aquis Date Kelp Forest Limited Edition. It confirms the broad release, the 41.5 mm size, the textured green kelp-inspired dial, and the 1,000-piece limit.

No direct Oris product page, reference number, caliber, case material, water-resistance rating, retail price, delivery timing, or sales channel was supplied. Those fields should remain blank in a collector’s record until a maker page, retailer listing, warranty document, or the watch’s own papers state them.