HIGH POINT

Tissot takes the launch of its RockWatch limited-edition reissue to the top of Europe

- WORDS ZARA ZHUANG

For a watch fabricated out of rock, the most fitting place to unveil it is in a space hollowed out of the same rock.

That is exactly how Tissot conceptualised its recent launch event for the reissue of the RockWatch, a timepiece that the Swiss brand first introduced in 1985. The charming, offbeat time-only quartz-powered two-handers may have been light on features but they were definitely big on spirit, with cases that were crafted entirely from solid discs of granite harvested from the Swiss cantons of Valais, Ticino and Grisons. The RockWatch went on to ignite a decade-long adventure through the Alps as well as mountain ranges the world over in a quest for source material for its various iterations, until the model was phased out sometime in the mid-1990s.