====== Tissot ======
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**Tissot** is a Swiss watch manufacturer, currently part of the [[Swatch Group]]'s Middle Range.

===== Foundation =====
**Tissot** ist a Swiss watch manufacturer of the [[Swatch Group]] and is located in [[Le Locle]] in the canton of [[Neuchâtel]].

[[Tissot, Charles Félicien|Charles Félicien Tissot]] ([[1804]] to [[1873]]) founded with his son Charles-Emile ([[1830]] to [[1910]]) in [[1853]] in [[Le Locle]] a workshop, where they produced [[pocket watch]]es with supplied parts. Charles-Emile traveled frequently to Russia and to the United States to sell their products. His son Charles ([[1860]]-[[1936]]) took over the company in [[1883]] and continued the sales tours. At the instigation of Charles's son Paul ([[1890]]-[[1951]]), who now also belonged to the company, one began to manufacture wristwatches in [[1915]]. In [[1920]] one extended the activity to an own movements production.

===== Merger with Omega =====
In [[1929]] Tissot and Omega merged into the //Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère SA// ([[SSIH]]). Tissot used now [[ebauche movement]]s of other producers; in [[1957]] they built a new factory building. In the seventies also Tissot was hit severely by the [[quartz crisis]]. In [[1977]] the branch factories in [[Neuchâtel]] and [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]] closed and abandoned manufacturing their own watch movements completely. However, Tissot continued to record losses, so that in [[1983]] a collapse of the company seemed imminent. Eventually the rescue was brought [[1985]] by the merger of the [[SSIH]] and the [[ASUAG]] (Allgemeine Schweizerische Uhren AG / General Swiss watches AG) for the [[Swatch Group]], headed by [[Nicolas Hayek]], which led to an extensive reorganization of the Swiss watch industry and the opening up of new markets.

===== Collections =====
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Tissot made ​​a name with a series of fashionable wristwatches with cases made ​​of unusual materials such as granite ("Rockwatch", [[1987]]) and wood ("Woodwatch", [[1991]]).

Today the collection is divided into a total of seven product ranges 

  * T-Sport Sports and [[dive watch]]es.
  * T-Tactile Multifunction watches, where functions such as [[chronograph]], altimeter, compass, [[alarm]] function, thermometer, barometer, date and time can be fetched by touching the sensor-equipped watch glass.
  * T-Trend Ladies watches in a variety of fashionable designs
  * T-Classic Steel watches in mostly classical, discreet design
  * Heritage Watches in retro style, launched on the occasion of the 150-year company anniversary in [[2003]]
  * Pocket Watch [[pocket watch]]es.
  * T-Gold Jewelry Watches with gilded boxes, 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 power source. Most models are also offered in various designs, such as optionally with a case in [[stainless steel]], [[gold]], [[titanium]], [[platinum]] or combinations of several metals (bicolor), with differently designed dials and various types of bracelets.

===== The Heritage 1938 collection =====
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In [[2023]], as a tribute to the watchmaking tradition, the //Tissot Heritage 1938
collection// brings back designs from the past: the models //Heritage Small Second Auto COSC 1938// and //Heritage Gent Auto COSC 1938//. They are equipped with the [[COSC]]-certified automatic movements [[ETA 2895-2]] and [[ETA 2824-2]], which can be seen through the transparent caseback.

===== Literature =====
  * Estelle Fallet TISSOT - 150 Years of History, 1853-2003. Tissot self-publishing 2003

===== Weblinks =====
  *[[http://www.tissot.ch/|Tissot]], official website


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