The calibre F9B82 inside the new Orient Star Skeleton is, by the brand’s own account, the longest-running and most accurate movement it has made: more than 72 hours of power reserve and a rating of +10 to -4 seconds per day. Orient Star announced the watch on September 9, 2026 as its 75th anniversary flagship, limited to 130 pieces, and lists it in a Flagship collection of its own, apart from the Classic, Contemporary and Sports lines.
The F9B82 is hand-wound, with 20 jewels, a silicon escape wheel, hacking seconds and a power reserve indicator. With no dial, the movement is the design: three tiers of overlapping skeletonised circles that Orient Star compares to ripples in a Zen garden and to planetary orbits. Finishing includes diamond-cut mirror chamfers across the whole structure, hand-applied hairline graining, hand-inked lines and blue-tempered screws and cutout skeleton hands. The brand traces the line to the 1991 Mon Bijou and the 2021 M45 F8 Skeleton, its first with a silicon escape wheel.
The 316L steel case is 40mm across, 46.8mm lug to lug and 9.5mm thick, Sallaz-polished to a mirror finish. The dual-curved sapphire is anti-reflective on both sides, the sapphire caseback carries the anniversary engraving and serial number, and water resistance is 3 bar. The 20mm strap is vegetable-tanned goatskin, hand-worked by the Japanese chari happo method and hand-stitched, on a new push-button trifold buckle. A 10-year warranty includes three complimentary overhauls.
Orient Star’s Japanese press release sets the price at JPY 1,100,000 including tax, roughly $7,165 USD at current exchange rates, and the release date at December 10, 2026, with 75 pieces for Japan and 55 for export. In Japan it sells only through the Orient Star official online store and the brand’s Prestige Shops. Pricing and retail channels for the export pieces have not been published.