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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	~~{{Portal\|Companies}}~~

	* [[List of watch manufacturers]]		* [[List of watch manufacturers]]

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{{Short description|Swiss watch manufacturer}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Tissot SA
| logo = Tissot Logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| image = Le Locle, usine Tissot.JPG
| image_size = 230px
| image_caption = Tissot's headquarters in Le Locle, Switzerland
| type = Subsidiary
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1853|df=yes}}
| founders = Charles-Félicien Tissot<br />Charles-Emile Tissot
| location_country = Switzerland
| location = 
| key_people = Sylvain Dolla ([[CEO (corporate title)|CEO]])<br />Georges Nicolas Hayek Jr. (Chairman of the Board)
| area_served = 150 countries
| industry = [[Watchmaking]]
| products = Watches, timing devices and systems
| revenue = €1.0 billion (2017)
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| num_employees = 250
| parent = [[The Swatch Group]]
| divisions =
| subsid =
| website = {{Official URL}}
| dissolved =
| footnotes =
}}
'''Tissot''' '''SA''' ({{IPA-fr|ti'so}}) is a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] luxury [[watchmaker]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=9548261|title=Company Overview of Tissot SA|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2019-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.swatchgroup.com/en/companies-brands/watches-jewelry/tissot|title=Tissot - Swatch Group|website=www.swatchgroup.com|access-date=2019-02-04}}</ref> The company was founded in [[Le Locle]], Switzerland by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son, Charles-Émile Tissot, in 1853.<ref name="Tissot: The Brand">{{cite web|title=Tissot: The Brand|url=http://www.tissot.ch/thebrand.html|publisher=Tissot|access-date=10 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202222443/http://www.tissot.ch/thebrand.html|archive-date=2 December 2014}}</ref> After several mergers and name changes, the group which Tissot SA belonged to was renamed [[the Swatch Group]] in 1998.<ref name=fallet/>{{rp|20–22}}

Tissot is not associated with [[Mathey-Tissot]], another Swiss watchmaking firm.

==History==

=== Independent company ===
Tissot was founded in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the [[Neuchâtel]] area of the [[Jura Mountains]].<ref name="Tissot: The Brand"/> Charles-Emile Tissot left for Russia in 1858 and succeeded in selling their [[Pocket watch#Hunter-case watches|savonnette pocket watches]] across the [[Russian Empire]].<ref name="Tissot Official">{{cite web |url=http://www.tissot.ch/?mod_communication/chapter_history |title= Tissot Official Website: History |publisher=Tissot |access-date=2009-09-18}}</ref>

In 2021, the company is marketing [https://www.tissotwatches.com/en-gb/t0064073626600.html Le Locle Powermatic 80], which has a watch face designed to mimic the clock tower in its founding city of Le Locle.

===Omega, SSIH, ASUAG, SMH===
Tissot merged with watch company [[Omega SA]] in 1930, forming SSIH (Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère),<ref name=fallet/>{{rp|208}} and Tissot-Omega watches from this era are sought after by collectors.

Tissot's first engagement as an official timekeeper was in 1938 where they timed a series of ski races in [[Villars-sur-Ollon]], near the company's home town in the Jura mountains. Tissot was used for timing downhill skiing in Switzerland in 1938, and for the [[1957 Davis Cup|Davis Cup in 1957]].

SSIH-ASUAG was formed in 1983 (Allgemeine Schweizerische Uhrenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, ASUAG, was a holding company supplying the watch industry),<ref name=fallet>{{Cite book|url=https://www.tissotwatches.com/shop/media/downloadable/test_histoire_en.pdf|title=The Story of a Watch Company|author=Estelle Fallet|publisher=Tissot|year=2002|isbn=2-940333-00-9}}</ref>{{rp|208–209}} then SMH (Société Suisse de Microélectronique et
d’horlogerie; 1983–1985).<ref name=fallet/>{{rp|20–22}}

=== Swatch subsidiary ===
SMH took the name of ''the Swatch Group'' in 1998.<ref name=fallet/>{{rp|20–22}} Tissot SA remained in [[Le Locle]], Switzerland, and marketed in 160 countries. Tissot watches are classified by the Swatch Group as "mid-range market" products.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swatchgroup.com/brands_and_companies/watches_and_jewelry/middle_range|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422170501/http://www.swatchgroup.com/brands_and_companies/watches_and_jewelry/middle_range|archive-date=22 April 2018|url-status=unfit|title=Middle Range watches – (Tissot, Balmain, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Calvin Klein)|website= The Swatch Group}}</ref>

Tissot is an official timekeeper for the world championships in cycling, motorcycling, fencing and ice hockey, etc. Tissot was a sponsor for the Formula One car-racing teams Lotus, Renault, and Sauber. In the past handheld stopwatches were sufficient to provide official timings; in more recent times manufacturers and sporting bodies together develop more accurate systems for specific events. In competitive cycling, for instance, sensors are placed on the bikes and track, and linked by computers to provide track timings and performance data.

== Motto and slogan ==
The company motto/slogan of Tissot is "Innovators by Tradition".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tissotwatches.com/en-us/heritage|title=Official Tissot Website - Our Heritage|website=www.tissotwatches.com|access-date=2019-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@swisswatchbrand/tissot-the-innovator-by-tradition-240de7e82112|title=Tissot — The "Innovator By Tradition"|author=|date=2018-03-30|website=Swiss Watch Brand|access-date=2019-02-04}}</ref>

== Watch manufacturing ==

=== Notable inventions ===
Tissot introduced the first mass-produced pocket watch as well as the first pocket watch with two time zones in 1853 and the first anti-magnetic watch, in 1929–30.<ref name="Tissot Official" /> The Tissot company was also the first to make watches out of plastic (Idea 2001 in 1971), stone (the Alpine [[granite]] [[RockWatch (watch)|RockWatch]] in 1985), [[mother of pearl]] (the Pearl watch in 1987), and wood (the Wood watch in 1988).<ref name="Tissot: The Brand" />

Tissot introduced its first tactile watch, with "T-Touch," technology in 1999; watches containing this technology have touch-sensitive sapphire crystals to control various functions including compass, barometer, altimeter and thermometer. The 2014 T-Touch Expert Solar and T-Touch Lady Solar had 25 functions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anytimewatches.com/en/the-new-tissot-t-touch-expert-solar.html|title=The New Tissot T-Touch Expert Solar|publisher=Anytime Watches|date=14 November 2014}}</ref>

===Gallery===
[[File:Tissot - 1958.jpg|thumb|170x170px|Tissot watch from [[1958]], manual winding, 33 millimeters, in-house movement with [[Manual winding]] .]]
<gallery>
File:Tissot_Couturier_watch_on_hand.jpg|Tissot Couturier
File:Tissot Handaufzug, 1958.jpg|Tissot 1958
File:Tissot Twotimer.jpg|Tissot Twotimer, 1990
File:Tissot PRC 200 T17.1.586.52.jpg|Tissot PRC 200 (T17.1.586.52)
File:Tissot pocket watch, open - 20110212.jpg|Tissot pocket watch, open
</gallery>

=== Environmental rating ===
[[File:Top_5_Gold_Producers.png|thumb|Top 5 gold producing nations]]
In December 2018, [[World Wide Fund for Nature]] (WWF) released an official report giving environmental ratings for 15 major watch manufacturers and jewelers in Switzerland.<ref name=":44">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wwf.ch/sites/default/files/doc-2018-12/2018_12_07_WWF%20Watch%20and%20Jewellery%20Report%202018_final_e_0.pdf|title=Environmental rating and industry report 2018|website=World Wide Fund for Nature|access-date=2019-01-19}}</ref><ref name=":45">{{Cite web|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/benchmark-report_swiss-luxury-watches-fail-to-meet-environmental-standards/44628536|title=Swiss luxury watches fail to meet environmental standards|author=|date=19 December 2018|website=SWI, a branch of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=2019-01-19}}</ref> Tissot and seven other manufacturers, including [[Omega SA|Omega]], [[Rolex]] and [[Longines]], were given the lowest environmental rating as "Latecomers/Non-transparent", suggesting that the manufacturer has taken very few actions to address the impact of its manufacturing activities on the environment and [[Climate change|the climate]].<ref name=":44" /><ref name=":45" />

There are concerns over the lack of transparency in manufacturing activities and the sourcing of precious raw materials such as [[gold]], which is a [[Environmental impact of mining|major cause of environmental issues]] such as [[pollution]], [[soil degradation]] and [[deforestation]].<ref name=":44" /><ref name=":45" /> The situation is especially serious in the [[developing countries]] which are top producers of gold, including China, Russia and South Africa.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/15/developing-countries-high-price-global-mineral-boom|title=How developing countries are paying a high price for the global mineral boom|last1=Vidal|first1=John|date=2015-08-15|work=The Observer|access-date=2019-02-02|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/6996-China-needs-to-get-to-grips-with-its-gold-mining-pollution-crisis|title=China needs to get to grips with its gold mining pollution crisis|website=www.chinadialogue.net|language=en|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://born2invest.com/articles/mining-in-russia-an-economic-boost-or-an-environmental-threat/|title=Mining in Russia: An economic boost or an environmental threat?|last=Einhorn|first=Dom|date=2015-02-09|website=Born2Invest|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mining.com/south-africa-has-failed-to-protect-locals-from-gold-mine-pollution-harvard-report/|title=South Africa has failed to protect locals from gold mine pollution: Harvard report|date=2016-10-12|website=MINING.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref> It is estimated that the watch and jewelry sector uses over 50% of world's annual gold production (over 2,000 tons), but in most cases the watch companies are unable or unwilling to demonstrate where their raw materials come from, and if the material suppliers use [[eco-friendly]] technologies.<ref name=":44" />
[[File:TissotLeLocle.jpg|thumb|Tissot Le Locle|alt=|240x240px]]

==Marketing==
Tissot has partnered with a wide range of celebrities from basketball players, actors, cricket players, to MotoGP racers to be their brand ambassadors. Tissot brand ambassadors have included: [[Tony Parker]], [[Liu Yi Fei]], [[Virat Kohli]], [[Deepika Padukone]], [[Huang Xiaoming]], [[Jorge Lorenzo]], [[Thomas Lüthi]], [[Neha Kakkar]], [[Marc Márquez]] and [[Rana Daggubati]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tissotwatches.com/en-us/ambassadors|title=Official Tissot Website - Meet our ambassadors|website=www.tissotwatches.com|access-date=2019-02-04}}</ref>

== Clientele ==
Tissot watches have been worn by [[Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge]], [[Sarah Bernhardt]], singer [[Carmen Miranda]], [[Grace Kelly]], [[Elvis Presley]] and [[Nelson Mandela]].<ref name="Tissot Official" />

==In popular culture==
[[James Stewart]] wore a Tissot watch in ''[[Rear Window]]''. T-Touch watches have been worn by [[Angelina Jolie]] in the movies ''[[Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life]]'' and ''[[Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]''.

== Sponsorships ==
Tissot has been the official timekeeper responsible for timing in several sports including MotoGP, ice hockey, cycling, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) the Fencing World Championships, the [[Women's National Basketball Association]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13813208/nba-watchmaker-tissot-announce-multi-year-partnership|title=NBA, watchmaker Tissot announce multiyear partnership|publisher=ESPN|access-date=23 February 2016}}</ref> for many years. In basketball it has sponsored the [[Switzerland national basketball team|Swiss national team]],<ref>[http://www.fiba.basketball/eurobasket/2017/qualifiers/Switzerland/#iset=716054ac-6f03-4c86-8f2a-8e4bccbd32dc&iid=73368a21-f38b-4a95-a006-2d913f206dd5 FIBA EuroBasket 2017], FIBA.com, Retrieved 31 August 2017.</ref> the [[Chinese Basketball Association]], the [[NBA]] and other related events, teams, and organizations.

== See also ==
{{Portal|Companies}}

* [[List of watch manufacturers]]
* [[Swiss Made]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Official website}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:The Swatch Group]]
[[Category:1853 establishments in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Clothing companies established in 1853]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1853]]
[[Category:Le Locle]]
[[Category:Luxury brands]]
[[Category:Swiss watch brands]]
[[Category:Watch brands]]
[[Category:Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland]]
[[Category:Companies based in the canton of Neuchâtel]]

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