Introducing the Coulson Limited Edition
Based in Canada, the family-run independent company sends pilots, planes and equipment to areas of the world affected by wildfires. In the Northern Hemisphere summer, that’s chiefly the US and California; during the Southern Hemisphere’s summer, its resources are split between Australia and South America.
The vision: to crush fires and assist firefighters on the ground, and to protect life and the environment. Now led by Wayne and his sons Britton and Foster, the company lives by two questions that echo in the corridors or Oris’s Hölstein factory, too: “How can we help the most, and how can we do it better?”
Together, Oris and Coulson Aviation have worked on the Coulson Limited Edition, a watch with a vibrant orange dial reminiscent of fire. The Coulson Limited Edition has a carbon fibre case produced using a novel 3D printing process.
Devised by Switzerland’s prestigious ETH Zurich university (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), it prints carbon fibre and a highgrade polymer developed in aerospace called PEKK simultaneously, weaving them together to create an ultra-lightweight, extremely rigid material. The process is so precise that you can fix the material’s pattern, where typically carbon fibre watch cases are random.
