The Satellite Timekeeping System covers 40 time zones and its signal is available all over the world, even in the remote wilderness. Without GPS, this technology would be impossible. Watches receive GPS signals from space and synchronize themselves with the precise atomic time. Citizen has used this technology since 2011 in order to display the exact time. However, the showstopper of these stylish watches is the so-called Satellite Timekeeping System. The Elegant collection, for example, features high-tech titanium watches that could very well be part of the Promaster series based on their functions and appearance. There's an over priced piece of junk on eBay and a rough example of yahoo.The boundaries dividing particular Citizen series aren't always well-defined.
Now don't go rushing out thinking you can pick one up easy. It wears very nicely, and joins my other 36mm watches. I know modern tastes say watches need to be larger, but I don't know why no one can make a chronograph that's this slim these days. There is a bit of fading on the tachy scale, but it is otherwise in awesome condition.ĭiameter is a modest 36mm and it's 10-11mm thick. Notice the top pusher is longer than the bottom - this is correct. I've been wearing it all week and it's beautiful. I quickly set about selling a few bits and pieces to raise the funds and off I went last weekend to take another look at it. Dials are either silver or black and there are lumed or unlumed variants.Īs luck would have it, Henry won a slightly better example of this model with bracelet on yahoo.jp, so he offered it to me. They're a late 60s to early 70s range of three or four models all using a hand winding fly back chronograph movement with column wheel and vertical clutch. I think I said that if he ever planned to sell one, let me know. I'd never heard of them, and they were stunning.
Toward the end he revealed his collection of Citizen Record Masters, which blew me away. I knew he was drip feeding me as he pulled out progressively more impressive watches. Here's something you don't often see around the forums.Ī few weeks ago I visited Henry ( Henry), who lives not far from me, to see his fantastic collection of Seikos and Citizens.
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