Tissot V8 watches

The Tissot V8 is a steel sports watch from Tissot's Sport collection, built around a 42.5 mm case and split into two families: the V8 Quartz Chronograph and the automatic V8 Swissmatic. Tissot says the Swissmatic takes its cue from the racing cars of the 1960s, down to a dashboard-inspired bezel.

The V8 Swissmatic (T106.407) runs on Tissot's Swissmatic automatic movement, which aBlogtoWatch describes as derived from the Swatch Sistem51, and Tissot rates it at 72 hours of power reserve. The case is 12.7 mm thick, takes a 22 mm strap and is water resistant to 10 bar, and the see-through caseback shows off the signed rotor. It comes with a black or silver dial on a bracelet or strap, and there is a silver-dial version with rose gold PVD.

The V8 Quartz Chronograph (T039.417) is the slimmer of the two at 11.05 mm, in the same 42.5 mm steel case under sapphire, with a black, silver or blue dial. The references ending in .02 carry a tachymeter bezel; others have a PVD-coated bezel. Tissot also made a black-dial V8 Quartz Chronograph Carbon Alpine, T106.417.16.201.01, on a strap.