Tissot

Tissot is a Swiss manufacturer of high quality watches and belongs to the Swatch Group. The company is based in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

Charles Felicien Tissot ( 1804-1873 ) founded with his son Charles -Emile ( 1830-1910 ) in 1853 in Le Locle, a workshop that produced pocket watches with foreign parts. Charles -Emile often traveled there to Russia and the U.S. to sell the products. His son Charles ( 1860-1936 ) took over the company in 1883 and continued the sales trips. Since 1915 it also produced watches, which ( 1890-1951 ) was done at the instigation of Charles 's son Paul, who now belonged to the company. In 1920 it was transferred to his own works.

Merger

1929, Tissot and Omega merged to form the Société Suisse pour l'Industrie SA Horlogère ( SSIH ). Tissot now also used Rohwerke other manufacturers ( so-called Ébauches ), 1957 they built a new factory building. In the 1970s, Tissot was massively affected by the quartz crisis of the Swiss watch industry, which was triggered by the oil crisis in 1973, the advent of cheaper imports from the Far East and the belated adjustment to the quartz technology. In 1977, the branch works in Peseux NE and La Chaux -de-Fonds were closed and the production of its own movements completely abandoned. However Tissot wrote on losses, so that in 1983 seemed imminent collapse of the company. The rescue finally brought the merger of SSIH and ASUAG ( Allgemeine Schweizerische Uhren AG ) to the Swatch Group under the leadership of Nicolas Hayek in 1985, of a comprehensive reorganization of the Swiss Watch Industry ( Tissot relates since quality housing parts of the sister company Georges Ruedin ) and the development of new markets led.

Collections

In 1971, Tissot brought out the Astrolon a clock, for the most part consisted of plastic in the draft model, gearing, Movement and inhibition. In the 1980s and 1990s, Tissot made ​​a name by a number of fashionable watches with housings made of unusual materials, such as granite ( "Rock Watch", 1987) and Wood ( " Wood Watch", 1991).

Today, the collection is divided into seven product lines:

  • T-Sport: sports and diving watches.
  • T- Tactile ( multifunction watches ): T- Navigator with world time zones and T-Touch with features like chronograph (stopwatch), alarm, thermal (temperature), Meteo (air pressure absolute and trend ), altimeter (height), Compass and date, by contact of the glass ( touchscreen) are called.
  • T-Trend: Men 's and ladies watches in different fashionable designs
  • T- Classic: steel watches in mostly classic, restrained design
  • Heritage: Clocks in retro style, launched on the occasion of the 150th anniversary in 2003
  • Pocket Watch: pocket watches.
  • T- Gold: Jewelry Watches with gold cases, some in retro style

Many watches are offered in several technical variations; so there are many models with both automatic as well as with quartz movement, and occasionally also with solar cells as a power source. Most models are also available in different designs, eg with optional stainless steel, gold, titanium, platinum or combinations of several metals ( bicolor ), with differently designed dials and various types of bracelets. Together with ETA SA, the movement Powermatic 80 was developed in 2012, which has a power reserve of 80 hours and a separate regulator variant.

Trivia

In the film The Ladykillers bears Professor Marcus ( Alec Guinness) in a Tissot chronograph, in Shaft ( 1971) John Shaft has a PR 516 GL with perforated bracelet.

Types of business entity Omega SA Peseux, Switzerland La Chaux-de-Fonds Shaft (1971 film)
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