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The Tissot T-Touch has worked hard as consumer-attractor in the windows of high-street jewellers for a while now. But how does it earn its geeky bauble status?
Your average watch lacks the functionality to necessitate a touch-sensitive screen. Not the T-Touch, which packs thermometer, barometer, altimeter and compass widgetry behind its cocktail-party aesthetic. Not to mention a chronograph and alarm.
Never get lost again
Of these wondrous, backwoods activities, the compass wins the ‘wow’ award. Press and hold the ‘T’ button, then touch the compass corner of the screen: the hands spin to form a compass needle, actively pointing north as you spin gaily in circles.
The barometer pressure reading is largely useless to the common man – more useful is that the hands move to either side of the 12 o’clock position to indicate the pressure trend over the past twelve hours. Broadly speaking, an increase in pressure means better weather.
How hot, how high?
The temperature sensor only accurately measures ambient temperature if you take the watch off your hot wrist for 20 minutes, so it’s of limited use. It’s a similar story for the altimeter, which measures expedition altitude gain or loss, rather than your exact height.
No matter what colour you just sprayed yourself, there’s a T-Touch face colour to suit (so long as it’s black, white, blue, orange or carbon). Decent wide hands and clear hour-markers make time-telling child’s play.
Materials to suit all wrists
There’s no second hand, but the minute hand moves in obvious increments if you’re boiling an egg. (Or, if you’re fussy about your eggs, there’s the digital chronograph.) Metal, leather or rubber strap choices should suit all wrists, and titanium construction keeps weight down and pub bragging up.
So it appears that, in the harsh environs of Surrey, the T-Touch is less use than a £10 compass and some Kendal mint cake. But in the urban jungle and the geeky tundra of gadgety minds, the T-Touch goes down a storm. Ergo, we’d hand over the £480+ asking price without a care.
Comments
Melancholia
1 year ago
Wow is a great watch, I like it very much, but I don't know if I have enough money to buy it.
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billysalup
1 year ago
I prefer to see a simple watch without too many additions. I think it's more elegant than full of stuff.
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petermarco
1 year ago
That watch is one of my type. I was likely that watch. A manly watch like that sure is tempting my shop feel.
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
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sealy
2 years ago
Sorry but this is nonsense and scaremongering just because one person had a bad experience. I myself have had a T Touch Expert for the last 3 years with no problems at all. (Battery changed once and it was away for 1 week). However my brother inlaw also bought a T Touch after seeing mine and it developed a fault after 10months. He returned it to Goldsmiths and they had to send it to Tissot for repair. He was without the watch for around a month but it was repaired under warranty without issue. I would presume that Time Tech charged $245 as you didn't buy the watch from them, why should they go through the hassle of fixing your watch for nothing. Was the dealer on the cruise ship an authorised Tissot Dealer? I'm guessing it wasn't as you would have been covered under Tissots international 2 year warranty. As with all electronic items, faults may well develop (especially when packed into a small watch). If you're spending a lot of money buy from an authorised dealer and you won't have any problems. The Tissot T-Touch is an excellent watch and I wear mine every day. Don't listen to the above reviewer, he is understandably unhappy with whats happened but at no point has he mentioned "authorised dealer", "receipt" or "stamped warranty book". Great watch...... Don't ruin it for anyone else interested in buying one. . . .
killerpants
3 years ago
I was keen to buy a Tissot but now you made a valid point I stay away from it. I don't want to waste time and the hassle of replacing something so simple as a battery, thanks.
TJG
4 years ago
DO NOT BUY A TISSOT T-TOUCH! I purchased the watch on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship out of Venice in July of 2007. I LOVED the watch, and am a big outdoorsman that used the compass and altimeter, barometer—everything a lot hunting bighorn sheep in the Rocky Mountains. I literally thought I could be a commercial for TISSOT TOUCH. Last summer the watch quit working, and then started again, it worked on and off for a few months intermittently stopping—I assumed it was the battery and when it finally stopped for good I took it to my jeweler to have the battery replaced. He could not open it, which I discovered was a good thing because the warranty would have been void. I then contacted TISSOT through the website, and within a few days Veronica responded Friday, November 7, 2008, 9:14 AM. Since then I have been in touch with Time Tech, a referred watchsmith on your list, I sent them the watch (WITH a battery, since I expected that was the issue) only to discover after several weeks of persistence, that they do not work on the TOUCH and sent it away. It then took me quite some time to receive any further information as to where the watch went, who has it, what they are doing with it, when I will get it back. Of course, all this time, I was still thinking I had an $800 watch. I finally receive, after persistence once again, information that they sent it back to “the factory” and I cannot call them because Time Tech sent it to them and is the customer, not me, so they will not talk to me. OK, fair enough, after all I am getting my watch fixed for free, it is a warranty issue obviously—what happens next? I receive an estimate for $400, $245 minimum from TIME TECH. Where is the estimate from “the factory” or is the watch being repaired under warranty and Time Tech is charging me $245.00 to coordinate it? Also, why could I not send it to the factory in the first place? At this point I am thinking of tossing the watch and regretting the whole purchase—I can’t even sell it, it doesn’t work, and functional used one can be purchased for $290.00 on ebay—that is what I am being charged just to get mine back. I have been told that I need to get the battery replaced about 1/year (?) That seems like a pretty big hassle for an $800 watch. Did I make a mistake in buying TISSOT? As cool as the watch is and as much as I loved it for one year, that is a pretty expensive short term investment.