Tag: tissot rockwatch

In 1969, Tissot’s Sidéral introduced fibreglass to watchmaking, followed swiftly by 1971’s Idea 2001 – the world’s first plastic mechanical watch (and a harbinger of Swatch’s bold steps come 1983) – both bold steps into crazy materials that could only lead to the collector ‘#IYKYK’ cult that is the ‘RockWatch’ of 1985, hewn from raw […]