Manufacturer
Tissot
Also recorded as: Charles Tissot & Fils · Tissot, Charles, und Fils S.A.
Le Locle firm that pioneered antimagnetic watches and exported widely to Russia and America.
Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile founded the firm in Le Locle in 1853; Charles-Émile developed sales in Russia. Tissot introduced a mass-produced antimagnetic watch in 1930 and in the same year merged with Omega to form SSIH, today part of the Swatch Group.
- Country
- Switzerland
- City / centre
- Le Locle
- Founded
- 1853
- Status
- Active (Swatch Group)
- Key people
- Charles-Félicien Tissot; Charles-Émile Tissot
Innovations & specialities
- Antimagnetic wristwatch (1930)
- Astrolon plastic-movement watch (1971)
Works by Tissot in the catalogue
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Pocket Watches · 1880
Pocket watch by Tissot, Charles, und Fils S.A., Switzerland, 1880
German Clock Museum
Wristwatches · 1950
Wristwatch by Tissot, Charles, und Fils S.A., Switzerland, 1950
German Clock Museum
Wristwatches · 1970
Wristwatch by Tissot, Charles, und Fils S.A., Switzerland, 1970 (German Clock Museum Museu_ProvidedCHO_museum_digital_57975__technical_number_)
German Clock Museum
Wristwatches · 1970
Wristwatch by Tissot, Charles, und Fils S.A., Switzerland, 1970 (German Clock Museum Museu_ProvidedCHO_museum_digital_58040__technical_number_)
German Clock Museum
Pocket Watches · 1971–2001
"Tissot synthetic idea 2001" the first plastic watch, introduced in 1971
Science Museum Group, London
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