Oris ProPilot x Gonzo

The new ProPilot X Gonzo Edition, a daring high-wire mechanical act created in collaboration with The Great Gonzo. It’s our third watch with Disney’s The Muppets following our collaborations with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. It’s based on one of our boldest designs (the ProPilot X Calibre 115) and most inventive in-house mechanical movements, fitting for an independent character never afraid to defy convention and follow his own path. Gonzo is a stage and screen star and a Hollywood legend. He performed his first act on The Muppet Show in 1976, announcing his unique brand of death-defying showmanship by eating a rubber tyre to the tune of Flight of the Bumblebee. He would become one of the show’s most-loved performers and go on to feature in a series of movies with his Muppets co-stars. He performs lunatic stunts to entertain his fans and fulfil improbable missions. Audiences will never forget the time he caught a cannonball, soared through the sky hanging perilously from a bunch of carnival balloons or proved his acting chops playing Charles Dickens. He did all his own stunts, once musing that “one of my arms is still longer than the other.” At every turn, The Great Gonzo is infectiously curious and enthusiastic, and totally comfortable with who he is – a beautiful weirdo.