Hour Vision. Their Vision.

Daniel Craig and OMEGA support ORBIS International and its Flying Eye Hospital. The Hour Vision Blue helps make it possible.

OMEGA has co-produced a film with ORBIS called Through Their Eyes. It documents Daniel Craig's visit to Mongolia with ORBIS’s team of medical professionals. While there, Craig witnessed the life-changing eye operations performed aboard the Flying Eye Hospital on the runway of the airport at the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator. The film reveals the dramatic contrasts in Mongolia, alternating images of men and women on horses galloping across the Steppes with those of motorcyclists negotiating the crowded streets of Ulan Bator. The most compelling stories, though, are those of a family’s joy when a child's eyesight has been restored and the gratitude expressed by a Mongolian nurse to the ORBIS team that has trained her and her colleagues to extend treatment to their communities.

Fighting preventable blindness around the world

OMEGA is working in cooperation with actor and brand ambassador Daniel Craig on a creative initiative in support of ORBIS International and its Flying Eye Hospital in the fight against preventable blindness.

Craig visited ORBIS’s Flying Eye Hospital on location in Mongolia to witness – first hand – the work these dedicated volunteers are doing. His experience is documented in a half hour film as he tours the plane and meets patients whose lives have been touched by this unique organization.

Since 1982, ORBIS has carried out programs in 89 countries to provide hands-on medical training, tools and technology for local partners to address the tragedy of avoidable blindness in their communities. As a result of ORBIS and its partner’s support, more than 15 million individuals have received medical care and more than a quarter of a million eye care professionals have been trained.

The OMEGA Hour Vision Blue

A special watch – the Hour Vision Blue – has been created to celebrate the partnership, and OMEGA has guaranteed that at least one million U.S. dollars from its sale will be donated to ORBIS, an organization which delivers eye care to some of the world’s most remote and developing regions.

The Hour Vision Blue wristwatch is a special edition of the elegant Hour Vision. It has a classic 41 mm stainless steel case and is equipped with OMEGA’s Co-Axial caliber 8500, the movement that signaled a revolution in series-produced mechanical watchmaking. The movement can be viewed through the sapphire crystal on the caseback.

Adding distinction to the timepiece is its specially designed sun-brushed blue dial. It has 18 Ct white gold facetted hour, minute and seconds hands coated with white Super-LumiNova and features a date window at the 3 o’clock position.

Interviews

Below you can see interviews with Mr. Nick Hayek and Dr. Robert Walters talk about the Hour Vision Project and the on-going relationship between OMEGA and ORBIS International.