The title compound, C29H19F6NOS2, is a new unsymmetrical photochromic diarylethene derivative with different meta-phenyl substituents. The distance between the two reactive (i.e. can be irradiated to form a new chemical bond) C atoms is 3.501 (4) Å; the dihedral angles between the mean plane of the main central cyclo­pentene ring and the thio­phene rings are 47.7 (5) and 45.1 (2)°, and those between the thio­phene rings and the adjacent benzene rings are 29.4 (2) and 28.4 (3)°. The three C atoms and the F atoms of hexa­fuorocyclo­pentene ring are disordered over two positions, with site-occupancy factors of 0.751 (4) and 0.249 (4).