Tissot PRC 200 watches

The Tissot PRC 200 is a 200 m sports watch in dressier clothes. Tissot built it after its PRS 200 sports line, wanting the same 20 bar rating with a more classic look, and the design follows from that: a slimmer bezel makes the dial look bigger and easier to read, and the hands carry Super-LumiNova. On the Lady chronograph and the current 43 mm model, a screw-down crown and case back hold the water resistance.

The PRC 200 Quartz Chronograph T055.417 is a 42 mm, 12 mm thick case on a steel bracelet, leather or rubber; the Yellow Hand version sets it on a black dial. The T17 chronographs are a little smaller at 39.8 mm and add a rotating 60-minute diver's bezel, which takes them a step closer to a dive watch than the T055.

The PRC 200 Automatic Chronograph is a much bigger watch: 44 mm and over 16 mm thick in the T055.427, 42 mm and almost 16 mm in the T014.427. The quartz chronograph does the same job in a case about 4 mm thinner.

Tissot aimed the PRC 200 Lady Chronograph (T055.217) at women who wanted a 200 m chronograph with a more traditional style. It is quartz, 35 mm across, with Roman or Arabic numerals or a mother-of-pearl dial, and Tissot paired it with colourful leather straps as well as a steel bracelet. For a plainer watch, the three-hand PRC 200 Quartz is about 39 mm and slim at around 10 mm, and the PRC 200 Automatic (T014.430) is 39.8 mm and 12 mm. Tissot's current PRC 200 is the 43 mm quartz chronograph T114.417, with a PowerDrive movement, a 1/10-second counter, add and split functions, and a 20 mm lug width.