Description
Just a year after the Stretto family's debut, Orient has expanded it with ten new automatic models split across two lines: five Stretto Date watches (EUR 399–420) and five Stretto Day & Night watches (EUR 450–499). The Date models are clean, compact three-handers in vivid new colours; the Day & Night models stack a day-of-week sub-dial, a date window and Orient's signature sun-and-moon indicator into a larger case — all powered by in-house calibres at prices few Swiss brands can approach.
The range includes two special editions: a 2,300-piece Stretto Date with an embossed striped dial in a vertical blue gradient (RA-AC0R09L), and a multi-colour Spring-Summer Day & Night (RA-AK0316L) that combines all four collection shades on one deep blue dial.
Design
The Stretto Date's 38.5mm steel case (45.5mm lug-to-lug, 11.2mm thick) frames sunburst dials in green, blue, pink or orange with applied wedge-shaped indices inspired by city skyscrapers, luminous hands, a date at 3 o'clock and a 20mm three-link bracelet with push-button trifold clasp. The Day & Night models grow to 41.5mm (48mm lug-to-lug, 13mm thick) to make room for the busier display: a day sub-dial at 10 o'clock, date at 3, and the rotating sun/moon disc at 4. The white-dial version wears a gold-plated bezel and partially gold-plated bracelet, the brown dial gets rose-gold accents, while green and navy keep it all-steel. Every model carries a sapphire crystal and an exhibition caseback.
Specifications
- References: Stretto Date RA-AC0R05E (green), RA-AC0R06L (blue), RA-AC0R07P (pink), RA-AC0R08Y (orange), RA-AC0R09L (blue gradient, LE 2,300) — Stretto Day & Night RA-AK0312S (white/gold), RA-AK0313Y (brown/rose gold), RA-AK0314E (green), RA-AK0315L (navy), RA-AK0316L (multi-colour)
- Case: Date 38.5mm × 11.2mm, lug-to-lug 45.5mm / Day & Night 41.5mm × 13mm, lug-to-lug 48mm — stainless steel
- Crystal: sapphire front, exhibition caseback
- Water resistance: 50m
- Movements: calibre F6722 (Date) / calibre F6B24 (Day & Night) — in-house, automatic with hand winding, bidirectional winding, 22 jewels
- Complications: date (Date) / day, date and day-night indicator (Day & Night)
- Frequency: 21,600vph (3Hz)
- Accuracy: +25/−15 seconds per day
- Power reserve: 40 hours
- Bracelet: SUS316L steel, 20mm (Date) / 22mm (Day & Night), trifold push-button clasp
- Limited edition: RA-AC0R09L limited to 2,300 pieces; RA-AK0316L seasonal Spring-Summer edition
- Prices: EUR 399 (Date), EUR 420 (Date LE), EUR 450 (brown/green/navy D&N), EUR 470 (multi-colour D&N), EUR 499 (white/gold D&N)
What's Exciting
The maths is the story. An in-house automatic with day, date and a sun/moon complication for EUR 450 has essentially no direct Swiss competition — the F6B24 gives the Day & Night models a functional character usually reserved for watches at several times the price. Orient's skyscraper-indexed Stretto design language, barely a year old, is already confident enough to carry pink and orange sunbursts without looking like a novelty act, and the 2,300-piece embossed-stripe gradient LE at EUR 420 is a strikingly cheap way into limited-edition collecting from a manufacture that makes its own movements.
History
Orient has built mechanical watches in Japan since 1950 and remains one of the few brands at its price point making movements fully in-house, now under the Seiko Epson umbrella. The Day & Night indication is a long-running Orient signature, seen across generations of its accessible complication watches. The Stretto collection launched only in 2025 as a contemporary, urban-styled pillar alongside the dressier Bambino — the name is Italian for "narrow", nodding to the compact proportions — and this ten-model expansion is its first major growth, arriving in a busy 2026 for the brand that has also seen the first no-date Bambino and Orient Star's 75th-anniversary releases.
