Five 38.5mm Date models and five 41.5mm Day & Night watches with a sun-and-moon indicator arrive in green, blue, pink, orange, and a gradient limited edition, priced from €399 to €499.
Ten new watches at once isn't standard practice, even for a brand as prolific as Orient. In 2026, the Japanese brand expanded its Stretto collection —which only debuted in 2025— with five 38.5mm Date references in green, blue, pink, and orange, plus a 2,300-piece limited edition with a gradient dial. Alongside them come five 41.5mm Stretto Day & Night watches with a sun-and-moon indicator, which raise both the price and the complication level.
None of this is a redesign: the case, the base movement, and the overall Stretto proposition are the same as in 2025. What changes is color, and in a collection built to be seen before it's read about, that might be enough.
Spec Sheet - Stretto Date
| Case | Stainless steel, 38.5mm x 11.2mm thick, 45.5mm lug-to-lug |
| Crystal / water resistance | Sapphire with exhibition caseback; 50m water resistance |
| Dial / bracelet | Sunburst finish in green, blue, pink, or orange, wedge-shaped skyscraper-inspired indexes (limited edition: embossed striped pattern with blue gradient); SUS316L steel bracelet, 20mm, folding clasp |
| Caliber | Orient Caliber F6722 (in-house), automatic with hand-winding and bidirectional winding |
| Frequency / reserve | 21,600 vph (3 Hz); 40-hour power reserve; 22 jewels; stated accuracy +25/-15 sec/day |
| Complications | Date, central hacking seconds |
| MSRP | EUR 399 (green, blue, pink, orange) · EUR 420 (2,300-piece limited edition, blue gradient) |
| Availability | Catalog expansion in 2026; Latin America arrival date not confirmed |
Spec Sheet - Stretto Day & Night
| Case | Stainless steel, 41.5mm x 13mm thick, 48mm lug-to-lug |
| Bezel / crystal | Steel on green, navy, and multi-color; gold-plated (white) or rose-gold-plated (brown); sapphire with exhibition caseback; 50m water resistance |
| Dial / bracelet | White, brown, green, navy, or multi-color (orange day display, blue sun/moon disc, pink minute track, green seconds hand); SUS316L steel bracelet, 22mm, partially gold-plated on white |
| Caliber | Orient Caliber F6B24 (in-house), automatic with hand-winding and bidirectional winding |
| Frequency / reserve | 21,600 vph (3 Hz); 40-hour power reserve; 22 jewels; stated accuracy +25/-15 sec/day |
| Complications | Day of week (10 o'clock), date (3 o'clock), sun-and-moon indicator (4 o'clock) |
| MSRP | EUR 450 (brown, green, navy) · EUR 470 (multi-color) · EUR 499 (white) |
| Availability | Catalog expansion in 2026; Latin America arrival date not confirmed |
New color, familiar design
The color push is real, but the design underneath hasn't changed since Stretto debuted in 2025: same compact case, same wedge-shaped indexes Orient describes as skyscraper-inspired, same open caseback —a detail that rarely shows up on watches under $500 and that appears here across all ten models. That open caseback is, in ORELO's view, the collection's most generous design gesture: it lets the in-house movement show instead of hiding it behind a solid caseback, something many microbrands in this price range don't even offer.
The size jump between the two families has functional logic, not just aesthetic reasoning: the Day & Night's 41.5mm case exists because the dial needs room for three functions —day, date, and the sun-and-moon indicator— without looking crowded. The multi-color reference, with orange, blue, pink, and green sharing a single dial, is the boldest of the ten, and probably the most divisive: some will hate it, and some will buy it for exactly that reason.
What's under the color
The F6722 and F6B24 calibers aren't movements bought from Miyota or Seiko Instruments to fill a gap: they're Orient's own manufacture, part of the same F6 family the brand uses across much of its catalog. At 21,600 vph (3 Hz), they beat slower than the 28,800 vph that became standard across mid-tier automatics —which translates into a visibly less fluid seconds sweep— but it's a common, proven frequency at this price point, not a hidden shortcut.
The stated accuracy, +25/-15 seconds per day, is far from the COSC standard (-4/+6 seconds) that certifies a Swiss chronometer, and that's worth saying plainly: these calibers aren't competing on that ground and don't pretend to. The 40-hour power reserve is enough to survive a weekend off the wrist, as long as it's not a long weekend. With 22 jewels and both hand and automatic winding, both calibers deliver exactly what an entry-level Japanese watch promises: known reliability, no fine-watchmaking pretensions.
Latin America and Spain Perspective
Orient has had an official distributor in Mexico (Euroluxe México, in Polanco, Mexico City) and in Colombia (Intercontinental Zona Libre) for years. We don't have a confirmed availability date for Latin America, as this is a recent addition to their catalog.
Regarding the price: at today's exchange rate, the Stretto Date at EUR 399 is equivalent to about $453 USD, and the white Day & Night at EUR 499 is equivalent to about $567 USD, just above the $550 mentioned in the headline of this article.
The verdict from ORELO
It's worthwhile if you're looking for a Japanese in-house automatic with an exhibition caseback for less than the price of a Seiko Presage with an equivalent complication; the Stretto Date, in particular, is hard to argue with at €399. The Day & Night function only makes sense if the sun and moon indicator is truly important to you; otherwise, that price jump buys you a complication that's more decorative than functional. It's not worth it if you're looking for chronometer precision or a movement with a proven track record—the F6722 and F6B24 are relatively new and haven't yet built up that kind of reputation.
Orient has been proving for years that in-house manufacturing isn't exclusive to haute horlogerie. What remains to be seen is whether color alone will be enough to make a collection memorable that already had everything else figured out since 2025, or if, in a year's time, we'll be talking about another launch with different dials and the same unanswered question.
