Tags: Presentation | Tissot | Men's | Classic | Diving
24.6.2021 | 4 MIN
Now this is really something – Tissot took their legendary Seastar and raised it to a completely new, this time really professional level. And the design... Divine. The watch will be availabe in our offer, so let's take a brief look at it (to shorten that exciting waiting). Introducing: Tissot Seastar 2000 Professional Automatic, the first watch from Tissot with ISO 6425 certificate.
Water belongs to the summer, and diving watches to water. And Tissot released one of their most unique watchmaking pieces of recent times.
Tissot Seastar watches probably don't need to be introduced. Tissot has been making them (probably) since the late 1960s, they acquired diving features in the 1980s and, in fact, today, 40 years later, they retain almost cult status as one of the most popular Swiss diving watches at an affordable price.
However, what the Seasters still lacked was official diving watches certification.
For a watch to meet the international standard for diving watches ISO 6425, it must pass rigorous tests of water resistance and overall durability. The certification of the watch is voluntary and it only depends on the manufacturer whether they have the watch tested. Every piece with this label must pass the diving standard test.
Yes, the current Seastar 1000 can also boldy reach the deapths on the wrists of the professionals – they meet all the diving requirements, such as water resistance up to 300 M (or 1000 ft, hence the name Seastar 1000), screw-down components, robust durable construction and of course typical diving design.
This year, Tissot decided to go even further... Well, respecivelly deeper, because as the name suggests, the new professional diving watch Seastar 2000 can withstand a more extreme depth of 2000 ft (600 M). Plus it also received the official label Diver's, which was achieved by the certification mentioned above, several new tweaks and an amazing design that explicitly wants contact with water.
Seastar 2000 Professional was designed for professional divers who face considerable depths and extreme conditions. That is why we can find a so-called heluim valve on a side of the case, at nine o'clock to be exact, which is intended for use only during saturation diving (below a depth of 100 meters). It is a safety valve used to equalize the pressure in the watch given the surrounding environment.
At a depth of more than 60 meters, nitrogen (a component of atmospheric air) turns into a toxic gas. For that reason, oxygen is mixed with helium in the diving bottles to make the air breathable for divers. When the diver moves it makes bubbles containing helium, which come to contact with the watch. And since helium is insoluble in water and passes through solid materials (even a rubber seal), the pressure in the watch remains the same as in the deapth the diver was. When the diver rises up, the helium has to drop to prevent overpressure, which would break the watch.
The design itself also has a one-way rotating bezel with a ceramic insert and significant serrations for easy manipulation. Ceramics have the advantage of showing no signs of wear even after years and the colors do not fade.
As it is a necessity for a diving watch, Seastars have an amazing readibility. The hands are really solid, filled with the Swiss Super-LumiNova, which won't leave divers in the dark depths of the ocean. The zero point on the bezel also received luminiscence.
The high water resistance is also supported by screw-down components (crown, caseback) and a really robust durable construction, for which an impressive amount of steel was used as this watch has a larger 46 mm diameter and a thickness of 16.25 mm. The weight of the watch is not exactly negligible, it weights 206 g. The new Seastars are a pretty manly deal. For some, a great feature, for others, their biggest disadvantage (in forums and discussions, many gentlemen said that they would prefer a universal 43 mm, but maybe in the future ...?).
The processing of the case, bracelet and buckle with extension then looks (at least from photos and videos) impressive and sophisticated.
The new Tissot Seastar 2000 not only belongs to the sea, but you could almost say it came out of the sea on its own. The main attraction of the model is the dial with an engraving of sharp waves depicting a turbulent sea level. For colors, Tissot used turquoise (blue and black for other models) that gradually changes to darker shades. This allowed the designers to play the game of light and shadows, which evokes sunlight penetrating through the water surface to the black depths... Beautiful, don't you think?
Whether you are looking at your watch for the first time or for the millionth time, you will probably still enjoy a dial like this. For that, it is good that the conex glass is made of sapphire, which stays beautiful and probably without scratches forever. The glass itself is very strong (you could almost say "thick as a log"), so there is no danger of breaking it. Plus it is equipped with an anti-reflective layer, which prevents reflection and improves the readability of the watch.
What is really unusual, however, is that the model designed for extreme conditions has a transparent caseback revealing the small mechanics of the movement. It was more expected, that the caseback would be full, with a typical engraving of a Seastar seahorse, but Tissot probably bet on the effect here. The movement is also covered by a strong sapphire crystal.
Speaking of the movement, it is a Powermatic 80 with (not very common in Tissot) Nivachron, which increases the resistance to magnetism.
The price tag fit under 1,200 EUR, which is for a watch of this quality more than fair. We will add information about when exactly we will have the watch soon.
So, are you so looking forward to it too?
