ReviewTissot’s NBA Supersport 2025: A Court-Side Companion
Ten years of watching basketball can teach you a lot about time. Tissot's latest NBA watch shows they've been taking notes on more than just the score
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Sports watches have a way of trying too hard. It’s usually a formula: take a perfectly good timepiece, add some team colours, maybe a logo or two, and suddenly you’ve got a ‘collaboration’. But Tissot’s been in partnership with the NBA since 2015, and after a decade of keeping the time (quite literally—they make the shot clocks), they’ve picked up a thing or two about the rhythm of basketball.
Their latest creation, the NBA Supersport 2025 Special Edition, arrives alongside a fresh 10-year deal with the league. It’s a 45mm statement piece that actually has something to say beyond ‘I like basketball’. The design pulls from the game’s visual language—from the pebbled leather texture of the dial to the jersey number-inspired indices—but does so with the kind of restraint you’d expect from the 172-year-old Swiss watchmakers. Even the caseback gets in on the action, featuring an engraved map of the 30 NBA cities arranged by conference.
The timing’s good too. Basketball’s cultural footprint keeps expanding, from the Paris games to Toronto getting the WNBA’s first international team. Meanwhile, Tissot’s been quietly positioning themselves as more than just the company behind those glowing red numbers counting down your shot clock. Let’s see if this watch lives up to the moment.
Design Of The Tissot NBA Supersport 2025
Let’s talk about what catches your eye first: the 45mm black PVD-coated steel case. It’s big, but basketball isn’t exactly a sport known for its subtlety. The bezel takes its cues from Tissot’s newly redesigned NBA shot clock—which is also going circular this season. Pretty fitting that you’re wearing the same design that’s counting down possessions in every NBA arena.
The dial is where things get interesting. Tissot have managed to translate basketball’s pebbled leather texture into something that actually works on a watch face. The gradient fades from dark grey to black gives it depth without looking like you strapped a miniature basketball to your wrist. The jersey number-inspired indices are a clever touch—they reference the sport without screaming about it. And yes, there’s an NBA logo on the second hand, but it’s small enough that you might miss it at first glance.
The strap shows the same attention to detail as the rest of the watch. The textured finish echoes the basketball theme without overdoing it, while red and blue accent stitches add just enough colour to keep things interesting.
Details Of The Tissot NBA Supersport 2025
The caseback is probably the coolest part of this whole package. Instead of just slapping on the NBA logo and calling it a day, Tissot arranged all the team cities by conference—Western teams on the left, Eastern on the right. It’s like a map of the league etched into your wrist. Not that anyone’s going to see it while you’re wearing it, but sometimes the details you keep to yourself are the best ones.
Under the hood, you’re getting a quartz chronograph movement. Nothing fancy here, just reliable timekeeping with hours, minutes, seconds, and date functions. The chronograph sub-dials are useful if you’re timing stuff, and antireflective glass is a nice touch, especially if you’re courtside.
The Final Buzzer
The thing about most sports collabs is they usually end up as merchandise first, timepiece second. But this Tissot seems to get what makes basketball interesting beyond just the obvious stuff. The details aren’t trying to tell the entire history of the NBA, they’re just well-executed nods to the game. The pebbled dial adds texture without being in your face, that caseback mapping of team cities is genuinely clever, and even the shot-clock-inspired bezel serves a purpose beyond just looking good. Not bad for a Swiss take on America’s game!
