It’s Time To Play The Music, It’s Time To Light The Lights, It’s Time To Meet The Oris ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition Tonight
It’s The Muppet Show with our special guest star, the Oris ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition! So please welcome to the stage the very first 34mm version of the ProPilot X, a fabulous collaboration with Miss Piggy. The striking pink dial befits the most fabulous pig in the universe, and so does the glimmering baguette-cut diamond that doubles as the 12 o’clock marker. But where is the diva herself, you ask? She’s backstage, so to speak. The case back has a spyhole revealing Miss Piggy’s glamorous portrait.
Miss Piggy’s influence spans half a century, during which time she has inspired and empowered pigs and people alike. If Kermit gets a watch in his honor, it’s only logical that Miss Piggy also gets one. Oris didn’t just take the 39mm ProPilot X Kermit Edition and color it pink. No, the ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition (CHF 2,800) measures 34mm wide, and instead of titanium, the newest and first smaller edition of the futuristic pilot’s watch is executed in steel.
“There is only one gift you should accept on your first date — diamonds.” Or an Oris ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition
The baguette-cut diamond at 12 that doubles as an hour marker was, without a shadow of a doubt, Miss Piggy’s non-negotiable request when she sat down with Oris Co-CEO Rolf Studer to discuss his plan to create an homage watch. The diamond represents her charisma and radiance. Miss Piggy’s absence on the fabulously pink dial makes her lesser-known humbleness apparent. The lifelike portrait that oozes glamour and beauty is painted on the lilac rotor of the automatic Oris 531 movement inside. A peephole in the mirror-polished case back reveals the portrait, which appears and disappears as the rotor rotates.
“There is no one on the planet to compare with moi”
The ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition might not come as a surprise after the ProPilot X Kermit Edition. However, it does in terms of size and material used for both case and bracelet. Those who expected or wanted a brown-dial ProPilot X Rowlf Edition must keep their fingers crossed for next year.
Reading the spec sheet of the ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition makes me wonder if the good people at Oris told Miss Piggy about the movement they’d put inside the homage watch. I’m not quite up to speed when it comes to the Muppet’s horological knowledge, but since she’s been spotted hanging out with John Mayer quite a lot recently, I guess she knows the difference between the in-house-designed Oris Calibre 400 and the 531, which is essentially a 17.2mm Sellita SW100 with a 4Hz frequency and 42-hour power reserve.
Miss Piggy must be okay with using a lower-end caliber, understanding that the Oris Calibre 400 is too big for the smaller 34mm case. If not, Rolf Studer should be careful not to receive a well-executed, possibly lethal karate blow when he’s not expecting it, although she doesn’t even have to use physical force. “Moi has always possessed a charm that is lethal to men,” Miss Piggy once said.
But let’s not end the arrival of the ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition on a low. Instead, rejoice about the arrival of a chic lilac-dialed tool watch 2.0 that is quite possibly the forerunner of smaller-sized Oris ProPilot X models without a pig peeping through a peephole on the case back.
Image: © Disney
