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From the moment Oris announced their ProPilot X “Kermit” watch fans have been speculating about which muppet would be next to get the Oris treatment. Not that we didn’t love seeing Kermit on the dial (once a month, on the first of the month) but for many elder-millennials and Gen-X watch collectors, the thought of having an entire collection of Muppet watches was, and remains, pretty tantalizing. Now, just about two years after Kermit made his Oris debut, we get the follow up: the ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition.
If you were hoping for Beaker or Animal or another more niche Muppet to appear on an Oris dial, you’ll have to keep waiting. Of course Miss Piggy would have to be the next character – she’s the natural counterpart to Kermit, after all. Has there ever been a more obvious “his and hers” collection than these two ProPilots together? I can’t think of one. The ProPilot X Miss Piggy Edition takes the familiar ProPilot X format and shrinks it (and pinks it, sorry) to 34mm. The case is stainless steel and the watch is powered by a rebadged Sellita automatic caliber.
It’s notable that unlike the Kermit watch, we don’t see Miss Piggy on the dial of her ProPilot, not even for a day (there’s no date window for her to make an appearance). Instead, there’s a small window on the caseback through which you can see her periodically on the winding rotor. For a watch devoted to such an iconic character, this is a pretty retrained approach. Instead of Miss Piggy’s image on the dial side, we get a bright pink dial with a single diamond at the 12:00 position. Again, very restrained.
I’ll admit I was skeptical of the Kermit when it was first announced. It seemed like a strange mashup to me: a hardcore tool watch, a beloved (and notably not hardcore) Muppet, and Oris running point behind it all. But that watch has really found its audience, and Oris is exactly the right brand to bring a watch like this market, with their notable focus on community and prioritizing watches as opportunities to simply have some fun. The Miss Piggy, as I’m sure this watch will soon be known, follows in a similar fashion and shows us another way of making a “character watch” for people who don’t want a famous animated mouse or cartoon beagle on the dial itself.
The ProPilot X Miss Piggy is available this month with a retail price of $3,200. Oris
