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Tissot's Desir moonphase fits a Swiss moon into 29.6mm, from A$725

Six new Désir moonphases are live on Tissot's Australian store, 29.6mm quartz, A$725 to A$840, with diamonds on all but the cheapest.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 13 August 2026

Tissot Désir 29.6mm on a steel bracelet, with a deep blue dial and a moon and stars disc at six o'clock — Tissot

The crown on the Désir sits at two o'clock with a cabochon set into it, which on a case this small also keeps it out of the back of your hand.

Tissot has put six new Désir moonphase models on its Australian store, each with a small moon at six o'clock, running from A$725 to A$840. A$725 for a Swiss watch that tracks the phase of the moon is not a sight you get often this far under a grand.

Angled view of the Désir showing the domed case, the blue cabochon set into the crown and the diamond indexes — Tissot

Domed steel at 29.6mm

The case is 316L stainless steel, 29.6mm across and 9.52mm thick, under a sapphire crystal with a single anti-reflective coating on the underside. Water resistance is 5 bar, so 50 metres. There's a battery end-of-life indicator as well, which gives you warning before the watch stops rather than after.

The dome is where the Désir shape comes from, and that crown is the other half of it. Moving a crown off three usually reads as styling and not much else. On reference T152.223.11.496.00, at A$805, the cabochon is a deep blue stone.

Case back of reference T152223 A, brushed steel marked water-resistant 5 bar, on the steel bracelet — Tissot

Four diamonds and a moon on a very small dial

That same reference splits its blue dial into two registers. The outer field is speckled like a night sky, and a smaller deep-blue disc at the bottom holds the moon and its stars. Four diamonds stand in for indexes, 0.02 carat in total, Top Wesselton colour, 32/24 full cut. Tissot says all of its diamonds meet Kimberley Process certification.

Four stones plus a moon on 29.6mm could turn to confetti easily enough, and the two-ring layout is what keeps it legible at a glance. The steel bracelet (reference T605050199) closes on a butterfly clasp with push buttons, the finished watch weighs 64 grams, and it's made in Switzerland with two years of warranty.

The cheapest one is the plain one

Five of the six carry diamonds. The one that doesn't is the A$725 watch, and the other five run from A$765 to A$840 depending on how many stones end up on the dial. Anyone who wants the complication without the sparkle gets it for forty dollars less than the cheapest diamond version.

Alongside them are new 28mm quartz Désirs, A$650 to A$860, and the 28mm automatics, which aren't new, at A$1,335 to A$1,530. The moonphases are the ones worth the time here. There isn't a lot of competition for a Swiss moonphase under a thousand Australian dollars.