Starting in 1820, Abraham-Louis Breguet got to work on what he called a “double seconds, or observation” watch. Finally perfected in 1823, it is considered (…)

As we did in 2014 with its forebear, the Swatch Sistem 51, we dissected Tissot’s Swissmatic in order to gain a better understanding of what’s “under the (…)

Nearly 35 years on from its launch, the little plastic watch is still proving an unprecedented hit. The reasons behind this success story lie in the very (…)

Of the three major Swiss watchmaker groups, only the Swatch Group has fundamentally industrial origins. While Richemont and LVMH have, with a forced march, (…)

In 1974, Tissot sold precisely 919,200 watches with mechanical calibres of its own manufacturing. Ten years later, in 1984, the total number of watches sold (…)