Do you like Tissot? (many pics)

Reynard · Jul 3, 2023

Can I join in? My grandad's mid-1930s-ish tank. It's dinged and dented after having crossed Europe during WW2, but I love it. Doesn't currently work, so do need to get it fixed...

LesXL · Jul 13, 2023

Two tone bumper

phg.drs.antunes · Aug 8, 2023

levkov · Sep 26, 2023

nitediver · Sep 27, 2023

I adore vintage Tissot chronographs! 😀

Navigator with a Cal 872 (Lemania 1277) with a wonderful gradient blue dial.

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Another Navigator with a Valjoux 7733 this time.

A nice chronograph using the Lemania 1341 complete with a signed bracelet.

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Cherry on top, this chrono with luminous dial and sword hands sports a cal CH27-41.

Vitezi · Sep 28, 2023

nitediver
I adore vintage Tissot chronographs! 😀

Me too 👍

__ryan__ · Sep 28, 2023

New to me: ref 6072-2, from 1946. Gilt dial with gray/green lume.

bubba48 · Oct 10, 2023

Another one

Bukem · Oct 13, 2023

Tissot was not a focus brand for me but over time it grew on me and I think it is somewhat underrated and overlooked. Best example are the Yachting Navigators. Tissot and Omega offered technically the same watch but Tissot trades 60% below the price of Omega

watchem · Oct 14, 2023

Tissot will always hold a place in my heart because it was one of my first serious watch brands. Dont like the direction they are taking currently though.

watchem · Oct 14, 2023

Vitezi
Me too 👍

great looking chronos!

Redwes25 · Oct 30, 2023

My Tissot 808A with Lemenia 1281 movement.

Bernhard J · Nov 8, 2023

And my PR516, new old stock, mint condition, including factory original band and buckle, recently grabed for 265 €, including shipping. 😀

I was puzzled a little bit, because the dial did not have the "Automatic" printed on, and I consequently thought it would contain a cal. 782 (manual winding). But upon gentle shaking one clearly hears the automatic winder (and it starts running), thus it contains a cal. 784. I did not open it yet though. A "redial" appears very unlikely to me.

DirtyDozen12 · Nov 8, 2023

Bernhard J
And my PR516, new old stock, mint condition, including factory original band and buckle, recently grabed for 265 €, including shipping. 😀

I was puzzled a little bit, because the dial did not have the "Automatic" printed on, and I consequently thought it would contain a cal. 782 (manual winding). But upon gentle shaking one clearly hears the automatic winder (and it starts running), thus it contains a cal. 784. I did not open it yet though. A "redial" appears very unlikely to me.

Thanks for sharing, it is a lovely example. I especially like the two-tone silver dial, which seems to be somewhat uncommon. I wonder if this could be a later example. I need to confirm this, but I think that earlier examples generally had more text on the dials (e.g. "VISODATE" and "SEASTAR"). I believe that the case-back design is another clue that the watch contains an automatic movement. Case-backs for manual-wind movements are flat, whereas case-backs for automatic movements are domed. See two examples below that illustrate what I am referring to.

Sources: https://www.ebay.de/itm/11592418619...ULdztqNIxjM+HZ7iKnggPnmA==|tkp:Bk9SR7qr5PD1Yg and https://www.ebay.com/itm/1344057822...8pfnNCTNZQmUjzuFyu0jPMoQ==|tkp:Bk9SR_qGmfH1Yg

707mm2 · Nov 23, 2023

B Bukem
Tissot and Omega offered technically the same watch but Tissot trades 60% below the price of Omega

Not quite true, vintage Tissot were cheaper than Omega because most of their watches were technically inferior : for example, they almost never used glucydur balance wheels (unless on rare models) but instead had cheaper nickel ones; on a similar note their automatic windings were less complex than Omegas, and they used more or less the same design with minor modifications from the early 1950s up to late 1970s when Omega would made many different calibers. Omega certified a huge amount of chronometers when Tissot vintage chronometers are extremely rare.