Tissot Unveils Stunning PRX Watch in Tribute to Grendizer

In general, life would be very sad if we always had to settle for rationality. Knowing how to remain a big kid, keeping your soul and dreams intact is an art in itself. Tissot proved this by unveiling this summer its collaboration with the manga UFO Robot Grendizer. A giant robot known in France and Belgium as… Grendizer! This special edition watch combines the vintage design of the PRX watch with the iconic elements of the animated series that arrived in France since 1978.

“It's amazing, the UFO Robot Grendizer and the Tissot PRX come from two different worlds, but they were both born in the 70s.”trusts Go Nagai, the famous mangaka. “I love watches, and I love Grendizer. It was a childhood dream, to go back to childhood, Sylvain Dolla, president of Tissot, is delighted. For our generation, it’s the first cartoon, which left its mark on all of us. I’m also a fan of the PRX, the watch that changed our lives so much at Tissot. I love its design. I went to the products department, and the senior vice president was also a fan of Grendizer. We organized a video conference with Nagai, the creator of Gredinzer. The Japanese must have thought to themselves that the Swiss are crazy. We were excited like children, we wanted a star axe needle. Then we told them that the box would take the shape of Spazer, the hero’s legendary spaceship, with the watch inside, and Grendizer’s face engraved with Superluminova.

The Tissot PRX UFO Grendizer, priced at €895, features a 40mm steel case and a blue dial inspired by the blue of the Grendizer itself. You can see a yellow bust in Super-LumiNova of the robot hero, and finally, the engraved rotor of the Powermatic 80 movement will awaken the nostalgia of any true Grendizer fan. “We are fortunate that Nagai will be releasing new episodes of Grendizer this summer.é, Sylvain Dolla trusts. They asked us if we wanted to do this collaboration around the old Grendizer or the new one. We answered the former! When the youngest members of our team discovered the watch and its features, even if they didn’t know about Grendizer, they were inspired by the manga. »