Tissot's PRX becomes a skeleton pocket watch for Damian Lillard

Tissot launched the PRX Skeleton Damian Lillard Special Edition today, timed to the Portland Trail Blazers' season opener against the Phoenix Suns. It is the basketball player's second PRX and the collection's first with an openworked display. Tissot prices it at CHF 1,735 or EUR 1,895.

The PRX firsts

The watch carries three firsts for the PRX line. It is the first skeletonised dial, the first hand-wound mechanical movement, and at 44mm the largest case the family has ever used. That diameter replaces the 40mm case of the earlier Powermatic 80 model Lillard fronted.

Lillard has been a Tissot ambassador since 2021, and the brand insists this is not a name printed on an existing watch. He worked through the creative process alongside Tissot's team, shaping the details. The result is a burgundy theme that runs from the dial into both straps.

Case and dial

The stainless steel case keeps the PRX's integrated design, with a brushed mid-case that pulls attention toward the openwork dial rather than the size. Sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating tops it, and water resistance is 100m. The left flank carries Dame Time engravings.

A burgundy ring frames the skeleton movement and holds the hour markers, while a second burgundy ring supports their other end. A matching ring with Dame Time inscriptions circles the running-seconds display, which gets an inclined gold track and a seconds hand shaped like Lillard's monogram.

The hour and minute hands and the indices carry Super-LumiNova for legibility after dark. The hand-wound construction is deliberate: Tissot frames it as a more direct relationship between wearer and mechanism, a daily winding ritual absent from the automatic Powermatic 80 models.

The movement

The movement is based on the ETA Unitas 6497, a hand-wound calibre Tissot has drawn on elsewhere, as have Hamilton and pre-Vendome Panerai. It beats at 18,800 vibrations per hour and stores 46 hours of power. Blued screws and striping decorate the architecture visible through the openwork.

A transparent caseback carrying Lillard's signature separates this edition from the regular collection, and it shows the same caliber through a signed sapphire window. Tissot positions the brand as one that made luxury watches attainable, and this special edition lands within the accessible PRX territory.

Two burgundy straps come in the box. The rubber version carries a crosshatched milk-crate pattern, a nod to the makeshift basketball hoops improvised from crates on the courts of Lillard's childhood. The second is a calfskin leather strap that will develop its own patina with wear.

Both straps use a quick-release system and close with a branded pin buckle, so swapping between them takes seconds. The idea returns the design to where Lillard's passion first took shape, an origin story the brand works hard to attach to the watch rather than treating it as a licensed afterthought.

The unexpected extra is a dedicated pocket-watch conversion set. An integrated-design sports watch rarely offers this option, and it broadens the ways the edition can be worn. It is the feature that makes the PRX Skeleton stand apart from other Tissot collaborations, not just another colorway.

Our guide to rocking a pocket watch ranks Patek Philippe's ref. 973J-001 first at about $45,250, with Tissot's own Savonnette ref. T8674051901300 as the entry into Swiss hand-wound pocket timekeeping at $995. Its 48.5mm hunter case runs 52 hours on a full wind.

The PRX Skeleton is between those two ends of the pocket-watch spectrum once converted. Our list also names Stührling's under-$100 stainless-steel skeleton, which needs winding every 36 hours, and IWC's Tribute to Pallweber Edition limited to 50 pieces.

H. Moser & Cie. has walked a similar athlete path: we covered its 97-piece skeleton tourbillon Pioneer built with Saquon Barkley. The Tissot takes the opposite commercial route. It is not a limited edition, which keeps the skeleton movement and the Lillard connection available rather than scarce.

Tissot joined the Blazers' Fan Fest on October 4th this year, an event celebrating Lillard's return after months away through injury. Fans moved through the Wall of Dame, a timeline of career moments, a photo experience and a Dear Dame letterbox under the theme Dame Time Is Our Time.

Today's arrival aligns with his return to competition and a new chapter, landing on the night Portland opens its season. Tissot has not set a run limit, and the brand has said nothing about production numbers. The watch simply enters the catalog at EUR 1,895, available alongside the regular PRX line.