The reissued Tissot Antimagnétique is a cool timepiece, this is a reissue with modern materials and techniques that improves on the vintage design. Now we can have a sapphire crystal, a display caseback and high tech materials in the movement – great.

Based on modern anti-magnetic capabilities, this timepiece doesn’t meet the current required gauss ratings so the old style name is somewhat misleading. However, this doesn’t matter to me, I really will not be using this timepiece in a capacity that requires this level of anti-magnetic capability. 

I really like the ETA hand-wound movement, with the lack of a winding rotor and display caseback, the movement finish is on display. The ETA 6498-1 has 17 jewels, 46 hour power reserve and a frequency of 2.5 Hz, that is 18,000 vph. The movement is viewed through a display caseback, so I can view the movement when I want – it looks pretty good. 

The Antimagnétique was first issued in 1930, this was the first watch with anti-magnetic capabilities. This beat Rolex, Omega and IWC to the market, pretty impressive really. The Antimagnétique ran until the 1950s, this is around the time the Rolex Milgauss was released so I’m guessing the Antimagnétique was discontinued when newer models were released.