El Tissot PRX Skeleton Damian Lillard, segundo PRX para el base de los Trail Blazers, mide 44 mm e incluye un estuche de piel para llevarlo en el bolsillo.
Tissot has been the official timekeeper of the NBA since 2015, and Damian Lillard, whom the Portland Trail Blazers drafted sixth overall in 2012, is one of the brand's ambassadors. In February 2024, Tissot released the first PRX dedicated to the player, a 40 mm automatic with a gold PVD case and bracelet and the Powermatic 80 calibre. Lillard spent eleven seasons in Portland before moving to the Milwaukee Bucks, where he tore his Achilles tendon in the 2025 playoffs, and in July of that year he signed again with the Trail Blazers.
On 21 October, the night Lillard played his first regular-season game since the injury and scored 25 points against the Phoenix Suns, Tissot announced the second watch of the partnership, the PRX Skeleton Damian Lillard Special Edition. It keeps the tonneau-shaped case of the PRX, the collection Tissot revived in 2021 from a 1978 model, now at 44 mm, and pairs it with a skeletonized dial and a hand-wound movement.
Technical Specs
| Reference | T137.405.17.371.00 |
| Case | 316L stainless steel, tonneau-shaped; 44 mm diameter, 11.2 mm thick, 13 mm lug width; 95 g |
| Crystal and back | Sapphire with anti-reflective coating on the inside; transparent sapphire caseback with Damian Lillard's signature |
| Water resistance | 10 bar (100 m) |
| Dial | Skeletonized, with burgundy details and faceted indexes |
| Hands | With Super-LumiNova |
| Caliber | Swiss mechanical, hand-wound; hours, minutes and small seconds at 9 o'clock; 52-hour power reserve |
| Straps | Burgundy rubber with pin buckle and burgundy leather with folding clasp; tool-free quick release |
| Included | Burgundy leather case with chain and black collector's box |
| Price | USD 2,075; MXN 41,700; EUR 1,895 |
Case, dial and straps
The case is four millimetres wider than that of Lillard's first PRX and only three tenths of a millimetre thicker. Tissot sells it with two burgundy straps that change without tools, one in leather and one in rubber; according to the brand, the texture of the rubber strap reproduces the pattern of the milk crates Lillard used as a basketball hoop as a child.
The skeletonised dial shows the movement from the front. At 9 o'clock, the small seconds carries two references to the player. The hand is shaped like a gold D crossed by two vertical lines, a nod to Dame D.O.L.L.A., the name under which Lillard releases his music as a rapper, and it is framed by a burgundy ring printed with Dame Time, the nickname he earned for the shots that have decided games in the final seconds, which he celebrates by pointing to his wrist.
A pocket-watch calibre
Tissot describes the movement as Swiss mechanical and hand-wound, without naming the calibre. Oracle Time, Luxe Digital and the retailer Teddy Baldassarre identify it as a derivative of the 6497, a calibre Unitas designed for pocket watches and that ETA, the Swatch Group's movement maker, now produces. Tissot belongs to the same group.
Because it is hand-wound, the movement has no rotor, the part that winds an automatic watch as the wrist moves, so the sapphire caseback shows the whole movement. The power reserve is 52 hours.
Buying in Mexico and Spain
Tissot sells the watch through its official websites in Mexico and Spain, where it can be bought online. The Mexican site offers free shipping and interest-free monthly instalments, and the Spanish site delivers in two to three working days.
A PRX for the wrist and the pocket
The burgundy leather case supplied with the watch holds the head once the strap is removed, and its chain lets the owner carry it in a trouser pocket or hang it from a bag. The same watch can therefore be worn on the wrist, on either the rubber or the leather strap, or carried as a pocket watch, the kind of watch the 6497 was designed for.
Compared with the 2024 automatic PRX, with its black dial and gold case, this second edition shows its movement through both the dial and the caseback, and it is the first watch of the partnership that can be carried as a pocket watch.
