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Tissot Watches has consistently surprised the watch industry with incredible technological innovations which it incorporates in all its timepieces. The brand has achieved great feats in converting what used to be an instrument that merely told time, to one that has versatility, style and functionality engineered into its design. Tissot Watches have evolved into incredibly multi-functional wristwatches that provide the ability to measure a variety of factors.

The watch now regarded as the Swiss manufacture’s trademark timepiece is the Tissot T-Touch watch. The watch incorporates a tactile sensitive crystal that activates 6 different digital functions. By tapping your finger over each labeled function the digital second and hour hands switch to that specific function’s reading. By activating the compass feature with the touch of a finger, the hour and second hands line up and automatically move to point northward. The alarm and chronograph functions are displayed in a small LED window at 6 O’ clock. An altimeter and thermometer can also be activated by tactile contact. The meteorological function is the final and most impressive feature on this tissot watch. When activated, this feature displays atmospheric pressure in the digital LED screen, and local weather trends with the hour/second hands.

Just as its counterparts in other Tissot watch collections, the T Touch has evolved into many variations. With a variety of features all variations incorporate a tactile sensitive crystal to active. Sea-Touch is now the latest variation of the T-Touch. This watch is specifically designed to cater to the needs of underwater scuba divers. From 1 meter below sea level the Swiss timepiece employs a diver’s log function that automatically initiates. A convenient rotating bezel allows divers to measure the time they have been underwater, as well as amount of oxygen remaining in their gear.

The Tissot TTouch is not only a watch for sports enthusiasts. It also makes life easier for the well-traveled individual. Want to view every single time-zone on earth with the touch of a finger, the T-Navigator watch can. For facilitated planning the watch also displays a calendar in the small LED window.

The Silen-T from the Touch watch collection is the only watch that does not have tactile functions. The watch is engineered for discreetness and/or the visually impaired. Silen T provides a silent alarm and time display function that alerts the user by silent vibration. This discreet way of displaying time through vibrations, allows anybody anywhere to keep an eye on their time without having to look at their watch. For the visually impaired it makes life a lot easier.

T touch technology is a truly exciting advancement for the world of digital tissot watches, as well as indicative of many new things to come from Swiss watchmaker Tissot.

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Whether it is the cars we drive or the watches we wear, all of them started with an idea and a dream. Whether it was by accident or planned, there is no way that the creators of technology could have imagined that their initial designs would have blossomed into the amazing products that we have today.
The next time you look at your watch realize that Peter Henlein invented the first pocket watch in Nuremberg, Germany. It wasn’t very accurate, which is sort of ironic since Germans are known for their accuracy. While this was the first portable watch, it was not the first wristwatch.
The first wristwatch was worn and created by the French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal. He simply attached string to his pocket watch, and, Walla, a future industry was created. So the next time, you I look to see what time it is on your Breitling chronometer, or whatever timepiece it is that you wear, know that the foundation for it was built by a man in Germany who took his clock with him wherever he went. Even though he was probably always either too late or too early for most of his appointments, no doubt he was the talk of whatever meeting he did attend with his portable watch. So it might be safe to say he was the first person to create a buzz with the timepiece that he was carting around. Moreover, go figure a mathematician and philosopher from France who probably was just too lazy to take his pocket watch out of his pocket, created one of the largest industries in the world. Of course this is in jest and these men were pioneers of their day.
So why is it important to know the history of your designer watch and the background of watches in general? With so many watches out there to choose from it can be very confusing. Do you buy a chronometer? How does that chronometer stack up against that simple Swatch which recently caught your attention? Learn what suits your needs. Learn for what purposes those three little dials that you have never quite figured out how to use, were really intended. You probably wouldn’t by a car without looking under the hood, why not do the same with your timepiece?
Now that we know who created the first watch, maybe next time we will find out which companies were the first to capitalize on it.