Great Watches

Founded by Charles Felician Tissot and his son Charles-Emile in the homey town of Le Locle, Switzerland, in the Jura Mountains over 150 years ago, the Tissot watch-making company in 1853, and the Swiss company has been pioneering classier and more progressed watches for men and women similar ever since. Tissot became a recognized fellow member of the esteemed Swiss Swatch Group Ltd. in 1983, the world’s biggest producer and distributor of watches.

Their exquisite and classy watch design, and their a good deal of styles and looks have earned them respect all over the international market. Tissot now has a presence in over 150 countries worldwide, and on each continent, following a business system of belief as old as the Tissot company itself: they strive to carry their productions all over the globe. In 1958, the founder’s son Charles-Emile left his home in Switzerland and with great success sold his father’s watches all over the immense and influential Russian empire. They have been at the cutting-edge of fashion for decades, found ofttimes on the wrists and in the pockets of celebrities everywhere.

The Tissot watch-making company has made a name for themselves as the forerunners of new watch-making technology, avante-gard materials, and nouveau style. Tissot was the firstborn company to provide two time zones in a pocket watch, a feature often times taken for granted now, and they were the initial to manufacture watches made of non-metallic materials including plastic, rock, mother of pearl, and wood. Lately, the Swiss watchmakers have accumulated substantial public and media attention for their “T-Touch” watches that use little touch-sensitive sapphire screens even though include an array of utile tools. The “T-Touch” watches provide wearers with barometers, thermometers, and compasses, and more. Tissot’s “T-Touch” watches have been featured in a number of recent movies, including the latest “Tomb Raider” instalment, and the action-romance, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” the Alfred Hitchcock film “The Rear Window,” and in magazines like Esquire, GQ, Maxim, Allure, and others.

Many celebrities and leaders international for the last century and a half, including Elvis Presley and Nelson Mandela, have worn their watches. They are a valued and recognized watch-making company that has never let go of it is roots as a Swiss company. Ambassadors of the Tissot Company today include Danica Patrick, the introductory woman to win and IndyCar race, Nicky Hayden, Steven Stamkos, Deepika Padukone, and Michael Owen, amid others. They all proudly show their Tissot watches as the dependable and lowcost instruments they are.

Tissot’s creative, innovative, and at times eccentric design team delivers a wide range of classic and high-tech productions with progressed functionalities that a good deal of other brands do not provide. With attractively priced timepieces, and an magnificent commitment to quality, reliability, and client service, Tissot is a world-renowned for their magnificent products. Due to the precision and reliability of their products, they have been declared the official timekeepers of a good deal of world sports championships such as cycling, ice hockey, motorcycling, and fencing, and others. They have also sponsored assorted Formula One teams. Tissot has collaborated with NASCAR, FIBA, and MotoGP, along with numerous other professional sporting leagues to provide exact timekeeping to see to it reasonable and sure results.

To own a Tissot watch is to own an item of precision, beauty, reliability, and good taste. Treat yourself to Tissot, the innovators by tradition.

The Tissot Story

For more than 150 years, Tissot has embodied the innovation and tradition of Swiss watch-making. Based in the Neuchâtel area of the Jura Mountains, in Le Locle, Switzerland, Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Emile invented the watch making company Tissot in 1853. Whether in the engineering of it is movements, in the exploration for special materials or in the very functions of the watch itself, Tissot’s engineers and watchmakers have formulated pioneering timepieces over the years.

Some of Tissot’s triumphs over the years include the the Idea 2001 (the world’s introductory plastic watch) freed in 1971, the Rock watch (which set the timepiece’s motion in a stone case made from Swiss Alps granite) in 1985, and the Wood watch from 1988 (with a wholly wooden case). Tissot uses the best movements (from ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse), the most eminent quality materials (316L steel, 18K gold, titanium) and scratch-proof glasses (sapphire crystal–at least 2500 Vickers).

The company has been involved with high profile sports events since 1974 when they sponsored a racing car in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, France. Since then Tissot’s timepieces have been chosen as official timekeepers for world championships in cycling, motorcycling, fencing and ice hockey. And Tissot is presently the the official watch and timekeeper of NASCAR.

Tissot timepieces have been worn by a bevy of celebrities over the years–including Grace Kelly, Elvis Presley and Nelson Mandela–and James Stewart’s reputation L.B. Jefferies wore a Tissot timepiece in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window.” Today the company is represented in a assortment of sporting fields by English soccer star Michael Owen, IndyCar driver Danica Patrick, and MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden. Today, Tissot is a fellow member of the Swatch Group, the world’s biggest watch producer and distributor.