Intro
The wait is over. MotoGP kicks off the 2025 motorsport season this weekend. Ahead of the opening race, with reigning champion Jorge Martin injured during the pre-season testing, Tissot, the official timekeeper since 2001, is in the headlines with a new T-Race collection. MotoGP underwent a huge technological development during the last twenty-four years, as did Tissot when looking at the T-Race collection’s product evolution, whose 2025 lineup is the most advanced ever.
The T-Race MotoGP collection
Worn by Tissot ambassador and KTM racing rider Enea Bastianini, the collection comes in two sub-collections: a T-Race MotoGP powered by a quartz chrono movement and a mechanical chronograph that features a skeletonized movement for the first time. Despite coming in different sizes, both models share a common design language and the neatest style ever, whose touch points are a motorcycle-brake-designed bezel.
The quartz model, limited to 8.000 pieces, features a tachymeter scale ending with 366.1, the top speed ever achieved by a MotoGP bike (2023). The case measures 45 mm, is 11.76 mm thick, and is ultra-light. Moving forward to the mechanical chronograph, here is a 45mm case with a 14.79 mm thick case. The watch houses a skeletonized movement based on the Valjoux A05, making it the most exclusive T-Race MotoGP Limited Edition ever.
It is a 4Hz self-winding movement running for 68 hours when fully wound. The mechanical movement also features a Nivachron™ balance spring, standard equipment for the group’s latest calibres, which offers superior anti-magnetic capabilities, and the Nivachoc anti-shock system. The new edition comes in 2025 copies.
Both watches are waterproof up to 100 meters and are presented in their signature motorcycle-helmet-shaped box. Still, the quartz model has a closed case back with the official MotoGP logo on top, while it is see-through on the skeletonized mechanical chronograph.
Final thoughts
Prices start at 695 Euros with the T-Race MotoGP Quartz Chronograph and stop at 2,175 Euros for the T-Race MotoGP Automatic Chronograph. Here are two substantially different propositions within the same collection sporting a recognizable octagonal shape of case and bezel. The mechanical model is indeed more attractive to pure watch lovers.
However, the quartz option is, in our opinion, the most suitable for a MotoGP sports watch. Thinner and lighter than its mechanical sibling, it offers everything a MotoGP lover asks in a sports chronograph: functionality, ease of use and maintenance costs over time, plus a far more accessible price list.
(Photo credit: Tissot)
Giovanni Maria Di Biase @Horbiter®
