Fossil Sport Tourer -- a new collection of fine chronographs

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Launching officially today is a new series that we’re excited about from Fossil – the Sport Tourer. We are thrilled to see Fossil back with some racing inspired chronographs and with a Japanese quartz movement. The name of the new series makes sense given Fossil can no longer use the Speedway name.

Let’s talk about new pieces before we go into some collector nerdiness.

The Sport Tourer collection launches officially on February 15 with 5 colorways that feature either a stainless-steel bracelet, leather straps or silicone strap.

All cases sizes for this initial launch are 42mm with a 22mm strap/bracelet. Prices in USD range $195-$220. Searching for movement information and came up empty handed, but Fossil does say it’s a Japanese center second chronograph movement and wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a Miyota movement as used before by Fossil and many, many others.

Model numbers are as follows - FS6043 for the cream dial with the perforated strap, FS6044 for the yellow dial, FS6045 for the black dial with the white sub-dials. FS6047 blue dial and the FS6046 for the green dial. Pictured below with links to the Fossil site to read more.

At first glance we’re leaning towards a FS6044 for our first Sport Tourer purchase – because let’s be honest some of the yellow dial Speedways from the late 90’s/early 2000’s are amongst our favorites. Coming in at a close second and our Facebook group confirms this – the cream dial with the leather strap is not far behind – love that drive theme!

You may be thinking; these pieces look familiar. There are lots of chronographs out there and lately the trend is racing/driving themes, which is great for collectors like me, who happened to love cars too. Some of the most memorable chronographs of Fossil past are the Fossil Speedway and Fossil Defenders and while not an exact copy of the Sport Tourer series, these older models including the Compass series of watches from the 2010’s all seem to welcome Sport Tourer to the family. The nods to heritage of previous designs is one of the things we like about Fossil. Keep it up!!!

Fossil DF Defenders

A few from the Fossil Compass Series of 2013-14

Fossil Speedways with an arkitekt cousin

one could argue that the recent retro series looks similar too sans date window