Outside of any digital watch you may know of, what watch do you know of that has ALL of the following features:

- Compass
- Chronograph
- Thermometer
- Altimeter
- Barometer
- Alarm
- Time (obviously)

The T-Touch may be old news now that it has been out for a few years, but the number of watches that have come out that can match the T-Touch in its superior multi-functionality can barely be measured in single digits.

To sum it up, there is not a single watch quite like the Tissot T-Touch.

Tissot T-Touch Titanium – T33.7.888.92 Gents Watch

And would you just look at it! The T-Touch isn’t like your ugly Casio G-Shock, it’s a work of beauty with a pretty bracelet and a very clean and attractive design. It’s not too big, not to small, it’s dial is not too busy, yet not too simple either; it is just right. It comes in a variety of colors and straps, but in the opinion of your humble presenter, the titanium with the black carbon fiber dial as pictured above is the most attractive.

So then, how does it operate?

Well it’s not called the T “Touch” for nothing…

In this watch you will find technology that is more akin to a car’s GPS device rather than a watch. If you want to know the temperature or use the altimeter all you have to do is touch a part of the watch crystal and it will instantly tell you information you want to know. Get lost in the woods? Just touch the crystal in the 6 o’clock position above where it says “compass” and the hour and minute hands will instantly move to create an arrow pointing toward the magnetic north pole.

The T-Touch uses a touch-sensitive crystal so that in the instance that you ever got lost somewhere with bleeding hands and are otherwise incapable of operating complicated crowns and buttons, all you would have to do is use your bloodied hands to touch a part of the crystal so that you can at least know the time, altitude, temperature, and barometric pressure conditions in which you have perished.

Well that sounds all good on paper, and after personally handling the T-Touch I have to say that it is an interesting little novelty, but would you ever buy one?

Well the answer for me is a very simple NO!

For starters, the novelty of the watch is exactly that, a novelty! These things are notoriously unreliable and while a great number of T-Touch watches are made of titanium they are not able to withstand the knocks that their muscular facade leads their owners to believe. On top of that, if you get these watches in water any deeper than the kiddie pool, your watch is history.

The fact that the functions of the watch require the constant movement of the hours and minutes hands leads it to be quite thirsty in the battery department as well. So while it may be good to wear this thing to a weekend barbecue to impress your friend, trusting that its functions will work when you need it the most is a bit of a leap of faith.