Tissot introduces the Tissot T-Touch Connect Solar for the first time: a hybrid Swiss watch that combines the best of traditional models with connected functionalities. The Tissot T-Touch Connect Solar, which takes advantage of the technology of the classic T-Touch. All its components are low-consumption and its solar recharging system is produced thanks to the photovoltaic cells of its sphere, developed in Neuchâtel by the CSEM. The Tissot T-Touch Connect Solar can stay connected for more than six months.

It has a sphere with photovoltaic cells that is also tactile, so the basic usability of a smartwatch already existed. Now the watch adds a digital display with MIP technology. With this technology, there is a one-bit memory circuit embedded in each pixel, so the information is preserved once it is written. This enables the design of products with very low-power consumption and long battery life. It also offers higher resolution, damping, and temperature tolerance.

It has the electronic crown to access the basic functions and the engraved buttons, also integrates a ceramic bezel and a tactile sapphire crystal. Furthermore, it is also submersible up to 100 meters.

The Tissot T-Touch Connect Solar takes advantage of the functions that the traditional T-Touch already had, which are not few: perpetual calendar, countdown, timing, alarm, temperature, compass and altimeter. But it has also developed its own operating system that it has called SWALPS, which plays with the name of Swatch and the Alps, and whose initials correspond to Swiss Autonomous Low-Power System. It will offer weather forecasts, GPS navigation and even information on NBA games, of which Tissot is a sponsor. And it is compatible with iOS, Android and Harmony.

This opens the door to connectivity and to keeping statistics on the phone, to receiving all kinds of notifications (calls, messages, etc.).