Tissot T-Navigator Automatic Pilot’s Watch
Although the new Tissot T-Navigator automatic timekeeper is not a real pilot’s watch in its, err, canonical sense, it still offers superb legibility and actually looks good.
In fact, the only piece that sounds out of tone here is the black PVD-treated bezel with compass-like markings on it. If the Swiss entry-luxury watchmaker managed to leave the bezel alone, this gadget might have been simply perfect.
As you can see on the photo below, the pair of hour and minute hands looks like old-school gauges from older planes.
Covered with snow-white Superluminova they, together with extra-large Arabic numerals, offer superb legibility making it especially easy to read current time, even in total darkness.
The watch is powered by the well-known ETA 2836-2 automatic movement that also offers simple calendar functionality.
As you can see, the watch has a wide aperture at 3 o’clock that displays not only date, but also current day of week. Well, since it is not a full calendar, you will still have to manually correct the calendar five times a year.
The watch is offered with a sapphire crystal on its top and a transparent back (not sure about the choice of material here, but it is probably a mineral glass) that provides a good view at the turbine blades-shaped winding rotor. A nice touch, that, although I suspect that Tissot’s designers were inspired by the last year’s Perrelet Turbine family of watches.
Photos: Tissot
Tissot T-Navigator automatic watch specification
Price: $895
Movement: Automatic, ETA 2836-2, 25 jewels, 28,800 vph, Swiss Made
Movement decoration: Winding rotor stylized as a turbine blade
Functions: Hours, minutes seconds, date, day of week
Power reserve: 40 hours
Case material: Stainless steel
Bezel material: Stainless steel, black PVD
Case shape: Round
Bezel shape: Round
Case size: 43.00 mm
Lug width: N/A
Case height: N/A
Dial: Black
Numerals: Arabic
Hands: White
Water resistance: 100 meters
Strap: Black rubber strap
Crystal: Sapphire
Case back: Transparent
Evgueni Matoussevitch in Swiss WatchesTags: 100 m, 43 mm, Automatic, Baselworld 2011, date, ETA 2836-2, pilot's watch, T-Navigator, Tissot
