Do you like Tissot? (many pics)

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Syrte

·May 23, 2017·MWR Tech Support Dept

Fost

My last bid failed on this one.2 min ago #crying
http://m.ebay.fr/itm/Montre-ancienn...-diver-watch-/282480988727?nav=WATCHING_ENDED

Been monitoring it, you have all my sympathy. I had a bid fail on a much coveted watch some three weeks ago, it still stings...
@Vitezi those textured dials are beautiful.

 

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NobitaD

·Jun 19, 2018

Hi ladies and gents,

I am new here and interested in this Tissot Antimagnetic but I have doubts. Please me what you think about it. Thanks.

 

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NT931

·Jun 19, 2018

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Hi ladies and gents,

I am new here and interested in this Tissot Antimagnetic but I have doubts. Please me what you think about it. Thanks.

I think you shd tell us your doubts...

Now in the absence of a caseback and movt shot (pls see the posting guide for newbies), my thoughts:
1. Crown looks wrong
2. This is likely a chromed case, I'm guessing
3. Can't tell redial or not , based on your rather small pics
4. looks like a smallish 33-34mm watch, but I could be wrong

Could you let us know a bit more to help you? And could you start a new thread perhaps?

 

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Jerseyhammer

·Jun 23, 2018

bubba48

I can say that Tissot is my second favorite brand (the first is Cyma/Tavannes) and I'd like to introduce you my modest collection

Some loverly models there. I also like T’s from 50’s & 60’s great value .

 

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Jerseyhammer

·Jun 23, 2018

phg.drs.antunes

Great collections! I only have one, a reissue of the visodate

That’s a good start to your collection

 

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Slbchdch

·Oct 28, 2018

Hello everyone! I am new here so I hope you can help me find out some more information about a vintage Tissot I have. It was my great aunt's (my great grandmother's sister's watch) so I know little about it. It has the old Tissot logo on the dial and the crown, it is manual wind and I assume it's a ladies watch because of it's size (and it's original owner!).

I recently had it checked by a jeweler and had the crystal replaced because it had a crack... crystal was actually plastic as is the new one, only difference is the original had a small "magnifying" circle over the date and the new one doesn't (which I honestly prefer!). I haven't opened the back because I am afraid I will scratch it. The girl at the jewelers told me to take good care of it as it is a really old model.

So I hope you can tell me something about it! Thanks in advance!

 

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Vitezi

·Oct 28, 2018

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I hope you can help me find out some more information about a vintage Tissot I have

Hello, and welcome to the forum! As you've already figured out, you have a ladies Visodate, which was Tissot's name for their watch models (mens and womens) that had a day indicator. Yours was manufactured in the mid-to-late 1950's. A similar model can be seen here in an advertisement from 1959:

 

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Slbchdch

·Oct 28, 2018

Vitezi

Hello, and welcome to the forum! As you've already figured out, you have a ladies Visodate, which was Tissot's name for their watch models (mens and womens) that had a day indicator. Yours was manufactured in the mid-to-late 1950's. A similar model can be seen here in an advertisement from 1959:

Thank you!! Funny how the add is in Italian because my family is in fact from Italy, and that is where my great aunt was from 😀

 

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Vitezi

·Oct 28, 2018

S Slbchdch

Thank you!!

Happy to help. If you have a jeweler remove the caseback and record the serial number from the movement, you can date the manufacture of your Tissot to a specific year. The Visodate model was quite popular; in fact, a version of the watch is still made today, with direct lineage to the watch you inherited.
If your heirloom is to be worn as a watch, we recommend that you take the watch to a vintage watchmaker for a servicing of the mechanical movement inside. The watchmaker will clean, lubricate, and adjust the movement for accurate timekeeping.

 

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Slbchdch

·Oct 28, 2018

Vitezi

Happy to help.

Thank you 😀 I did do some testing once they "serviced it" and found it keeps approximately 15 hours time without delays after winding it! I will contact the jeweler in Italy and ask if they did what you recommend and if not, will certainly search for someone who can do this near me (although the jewelers in my country are not really good with watches hahaha... when I asked one of the "famous" ones to give me an estimate, they returned it with the hands misaligned!)

 

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Hijak

·Oct 28, 2018

I like Tissot as well, my favorite...

 

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superfly

·Oct 28, 2018

bubba48

I can say that Tissot is my second favorite brand (the first is Cyma/Tavannes) and I'd like to introduce you my modest collection

Unitas / ETA 6498 on 20 or so of those examples? Or do some contain different movements?

 

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Vitezi

·Oct 28, 2018

Hijak

I like Tissot as well, my favorite...

Dibs! 😁

 

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bubba48

·Oct 29, 2018

superfly

Unitas / ETA 6498 on 20 or so of those examples? Or do some contain different movements?

All the movements by Tissot

 

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François Pépin

·Oct 29, 2018

@bubba48 great thread!

I do not know much about Tissot and currently do not own one. But because of this thread it may change soon!

Do you guys have pictures of the movements of these nice watches?

 

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Vitezi

·Oct 29, 2018

François Pépin

Do you guys have pictures of the movements of these nice watches?

During the 1940s and '50s, Tissot recognized that the company had too many wristwatch caliber variations in production. It wrestled with rationalizing its manufacturing, but didn't really get a handle on things until the introduction of their 781 platform around 1960. Prior to that time however, Tissot had a wide variety of movements.

Early-1940s watches, such as these Aquasports, often used the Tissot caliber 17.5, of which there were a few variants:


http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?11&ranfft&&2uswk&Tissot_17_5_1


By the mid-1940s, most manual-wind models, such as the government-issue watches, were using variants of the robust caliber 27:


http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?11&ranfft&&2uswk&Tissot_27_000


A famous variant of the caliber 27 was the M27.53 used in the Mediostat:



In the late-1940s, Tissot launched their line of bumper automatics, based on the cal 28.5 family:


http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?11&ranfft&&2uswk&Tissot_28_5_1


A famous variant of the bumper automatic was the Navigator seen above, launched in 1951, and based on the 28.5N-21.



By the mid-1950s, most automatic models were on Tissot's full rotor 28.5R-21:



http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?11&ranfft&&2uswk&Tissot_28_5R_21

 

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François Pépin

·Oct 29, 2018

Thank you very much! I was not expecting such a nice and detailed answer!

 

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Vitezi

·Oct 29, 2018

Happy to help. But, it's clear that I am missing a nice tank from the 1930s with a T20 inside.
For that, my plan is to be adopted by @ConElPueblo so that I may inherit his lovely example. 😗
https://omegaforums.net/threads/two-stunning-arrivals-in-2018.69170/

 

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ConElPueblo

·Oct 29, 2018

Ahh, Tissot...

I have almost stopped looking for these. Sad, I know. There are still a few references I would love to own (the stunning Worldtimer and the Pointerdate especially), but I have to admit that I am not as infatuated as I used to be. The relationship between Omega and Tissot means that bar the few really special ones (see earlier), most of the Tissots you see are - IMO - lower-grade Omegas, where it seems to me that Tissot have been forced to quell their ambitions and play the second tier instead of going all in. Look at the chronometer-grade Tissot presented here earlier; how many chronometers did Tissot make? Not a whole lot, that sort of thing was an Omega speciality.

From time to time I see some stuff that makes me reconsider; the beautiful "Americas" enamel dialed golden watch that I know @Vitezi also saw on Instagram earlier today and this fantastic visor, which I saw on a Swedish site recently:


From here.


How fantastic is that?!?

 

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bobbee

·Nov 3, 2018

My small collection.

1967 Plongeur, 1972 Seastar Seven and 1972 PR516 Quartz.