“Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.” is a famous Japanese manufacturer of clockworks and watches located in Tokyo (Japan). Citizen has been in the first place founded as Shokosha Watch Research Institute in the year 1918. The company was built in 1924 when the first product, a small pocket watch called Citizen, was placed on the market. In 1930 the firm assumed the name Citizen Watch Company, too. The founding fathers once have been selected the name Citizen because they tried to find a direct way to the peoples emotions. This is still nowadays the idea behind wrist watches built by Citizen.

First watch with Eco-Drive - Models reaching from dress to athletics


For Example the first Japanese wristwatch having a wake-up-function was launched by Citizen in 1958. In the 1970ties Citizen developed the debut quartz wrist watches with LCD display and later also the thinnest LCD wrist watch of all time. In the early 1990ties Citizen originated the premier series production of watchcases consisting of titanium. In addition to that, they designed the leadoff voice recognition watch which was another big milestone in their history. Beyond that the concern was an outrider in developing dive watches for professional use. A highlight was the included bathometer - no one else was able to offer a similar great function. Additional, Citizen is best-known for its Eco-Drive collection of light powered wrist watches. Fuelled only by light, it doesn’t require any batteries. Designs reaching from dress to athletics (e.g. professional dive watches), Citizen has a collection for everybody and every occasion. Find out more about Citizen watches

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