Timex unveils new compact watch with a rotating tennis ball hand, preorders now live

The recently unveiled Peanuts x Timex Marlin 1965 Reissue Inspired Snoopy Tennis has a rotating tennis ball where the seconds hand should be. The TW2Y12500 is listed at $219 on Timex's US, UK and Canadian stores, where it has been open for preorder since late June.

It arrived pretty quietly. Timex made no launch announcement. Snoopy shows up on the dial as The World-Famous Tennis Player, caught mid-serve against a denim-print background. The tennis ball sweeping the face as the seconds hand is the only part of the theme that moves; everything else is printed normally.

The case is 34 mm gold-tone polished stainless steel, roughly 10 mm tall, with 18 mm lugs and a listed weight of 33 grams. The crystal is acrylic — Timex uses it across its Marlin and Q collections for the period-correct dome. It scratches relatively easily, but buffs out with polish.

Water resistance is 30 m, which the company qualifies as hand-washing and splashes rather than swimming. The denim fabric strap rests on quick-release bars and fits wrists between 150 and 205 mm. The movement is quartz. However, no caliber has been published.

Two other Snoopy Tennis Marlins also launched alongside it; they're both hand-wound. The TW2V63300 is limited to 500 pieces with a numbered caseback, and the TW2V88800 on a green dial. This one shares the artwork and the collection name but is neither mechanical nor numbered, which is worth knowing before looking this reference up.