Originally Posted by rekmeyata

Tissot was the favorite time keeping piece of the days before digital watches came along, I still own a Seastar from back then but it now needs work that I'm not sure can be fixed. A couple of places I took it to said it needs new bearings, which was unusual in a watch design, which are no longer made. I would probably have to find a beat up Seastar from that era with a good movement and switch movements. But I have so many watches it's not a priority to get it fixed. Everyone wore all sorts of watches, but Tissot was the official timepiece of cycling races and as such cyclists wore them, the top racers got Tissot's for free since Tissot sponsored them. There was some Omega sponsored racers too, and Timex among others from what I remember, but they weren't official time keepers of cycling events, that fame fell on Tissot.