Brand
Used Tissot watches
Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile founded Tissot in Le Locle in 1853, and the business grew on exports, with Russia among its most important markets. Tissot has always liked trying new things. It made the first series-produced antimagnetic watch around 1930, the fiberglass Sideral in 1969, the mostly plastic Astrolon in 1971 and the stone-cased RockWatch in 1985. Around 1930 it joined Omega to form SSIH, with Lemania supplying chronograph movements, so a vintage Tissot often shares parts and engineering with an Omega of the same years. Inside that group Omega took the luxury end and Tissot the middle, and vintage Tissots still sell for less than their Omega cousins. The ones to hunt are the 1950s Navigator world-timer, the PR 516 skin diver, the Lemania-powered chronographs and the fiberglass Sideral.
5 references we cover.
Tissot · Visodate
DressTissot Visodate Seastar Automatic
ref Visodate Seastar
- Caliber
- Tissot automatic
- Years
- from the mid-1950s
$240–$390 typical ask
150 on eBay
Tissot · PR 516
DiveTissot PR 516 Automatic
ref PR 516 (refs. 44544, 44622)
- Caliber
- cal. 786
- Years
- late 1960s–1970s
$260–$370 typical ask
52 on eBay
Tissot · T12
ChronographTissot T12 Chronograph
ref T12
- Caliber
- Lemania 873
- Years
- early 1970s
$1,525–$1,900 typical ask
10 on eBay
Tissot · Sideral
DiveTissot Sideral
ref Sideral / Sideral S
- Caliber
- cal. 784-2
- Years
- 1969–1970s
$270–$525 typical ask
49 on eBay
Tissot · Navigator
Pilot and fieldTissot Navigator World Time
ref Navigator
- Caliber
- cal. 28.5N-21T
- Years
- early 1950s
$775–$2,300 typical ask
32 on eBay