Tissot Sideral S Red Strap 41mm Mens Watch

Ref. T1454079705702

The Sideral began in 1969 as something genuinely unusual — a fiberglass-cased watch at a time when no one was making them. The 1971 revision brought colour and a sportier bearing, and it is that version the current watch revives, right down to the detail of placing the Tissot logo on the left flank of the case rather than the dial. The forged carbon tonneau shape updates the material story while keeping faith with the original's willingness to look like nothing else on a wrist. The calibre C07.111 beneath the exhibition caseback is Tissot's Powermatic 80, a Swatch Group movement built on the ETA 2824 but substantially reworked: 80 hours of power reserve means a watch left on a Friday evening is still running Monday morning, and the Nivachron balance spring resists both magnetic fields and temperature variation in a way that a standard hairspring does not. On the dial, the multicoloured Super-LumiNova is applied not just to the hands but across the full minute scale and bezel indices — in darkness the result is less a sober sports watch and more something that reads like a cockpit. The perforated red strap sets this reference apart from its siblings in the range, and the quick-release system means swapping it takes seconds without tools — worth knowing given how decisively the strap colour defines the watch's character.

Reference

T1454079705702

Brand

Tissot

Case size

41mm

Lug width

20mm

Case material

Carbon

Case shape

Tonneau

Dial

Black

Crystal

Sapphire

Movement

Automatic

Calibre

Powermatic 80

Functions

Date

Water resistance

300m

Bracelet / strap

Rubber strap

Strap colour

Red

Clasp

Buckle

Lume

Super-LumiNova

Retailer

Goldsmiths