In 1982 Ulrich W. Herzog and Dr Rolf Portmann staged a management buyout and returned Oris to independence — the value that has driven every movement from Hölstein ever since.
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“I wanted to overturn the Swiss Watch Statute.”
Dr Rolf Portmann, Oris Honorary Chairman
In 1956, Dr. Rolf Portmann joined Oris with a clear goal: change the law that was holding Swiss watchmaking back.
Today, the story continues.
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The Oris Star was born in 1966 — a declaration of independence dressed in modernist steel.
That freedom had an architect: Dr. Rolf Portmann, the young lawyer who spent a decade dismantling the Swiss Watch Statute that kept Oris caged. When the law fell, the Star rose.
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