{"id":52311,"date":"2020-04-22T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=52311"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:50:21","slug":"epson-owned-orient-revives-models-from-its-70-year-old-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/epson-owned-orient-revives-models-from-its-70-year-old-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Orient revives models from its 70-year-old archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You might be new to the Japanese marque Orient, but it is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2020, and aims to make a splash by bringing back some old favorites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orient has created a Revival Collection of new models that bring back designs from throughout its history.<\/p>\n<p>First up is a King Diver, a reboot of the 1965 Weekly Auto Orient King Diver.<\/p>\n<p>In May, a modern version of the Retro Future Camera, a recreation of a popular model that incorporates camera details into its timeless mechanical design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D04G.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D04G.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"738\" title=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D03E.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D03E.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"738\" title=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D02R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D02R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"738\" title=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D01B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AA0D01B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"738\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modern day King Divers will be made in a limited run of 1,700 units for a version with a graduated golden dial.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be regular models in black, red and green.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AR0204G-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2020\/04\/RA-AR0204G-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"738\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Retro Future Camera, limited to 2,300, takes its design inspiration from a classic 1950s rangefinder camera. Its dial is made to look like a camera lens, complete with aperture blades. The bezel mimicks a camera\u2019s diaphragm ring, and the crown and crown guard are modelled on a film winding lever, as well as the square top of a camera cover.<\/p>\n<p>Both anniversary watches use a Japanese-made automatic in house caliber F6S22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese marque is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2020 with a dive watch and camera-inspired model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[11084,150],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52311"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=52311"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=52311"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=52311"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=52311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}