Citizen’s new Premier watch collection

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• The Citizen Series8 and Attesa ranges have now been grouped beneath the Citizen Premier assortment, touting luxurious as its supposed objective.
• The Citizen Premier Series8 watches at the moment are extra clearly separated from the likes of the Promaster line of device watches.
• Two new Citizen Attesa references are made out of Tremendous-Titanium with hardness coatings and a black ceramic bezel.

As a watchmaker, Citizen has defied classes for over a century. The overwhelming majority of its watches have all the time had affordability as a precedence, nevertheless it was by no means an ‘reasonably priced model’ as a sole objective. Quite, Citizen has centered on progress. Whether or not it was the record-breaking quartz watches of the Nineteen Seventies or the innovation of Eco-Drive’s solar energy, Citizen all the time finds the practicality behind each inventive determination. Breaking off with a devoted assortment for luxurious watches, the Citizen Premier assortment has taken two pre-existing mannequin ranges beneath its wing.

You possibly can’t outline luxurious by a selected value level and even goal requirements of ending, however fairly by its distinctive angle. To have a model like Citizen declare that the Citizen Premier assortment can be its new arm for luxurious watches is critical, as a result of it introduces a level of separation between Premier and non-Premier watches. To get a greater deal with on what’s happening, let’s have a look at the watches which inaugurates the Premier vary. None of them are notably costly – and Citizen has actually made dearer watches earlier than, notably beneath its Grand Seiko-rivalling “The Citizen” vary which breaks into 5 figures. As a substitute, the Series8 and Attesa ranges supply premium manufacturing on a price range.

The Series8 is Citizen’s submission to the world of chunky, geometric sports activities watches with built-in bracelets. However not each mannequin is alike, and the assorted references can have fully totally different case shapes and types, though the identical power carries via the entire assortment. For instance, the brand new Series8 890 is a green-dialled variant of a watch we’ve seen earlier than, with an inside dive bezel and an octagonal bezel which is fairly strongly harking back to the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore. Then there’s the Series8 880 GMT in gold PVD with a spherical bezel that lets the case do the entire chunky speaking. Lastly, the 831 doesn’t even have an built-in bracelet, however its easy bezel and strongly-faceted lugs give it a way more slender profile. Its ice blue dial glitters with quite a lot of triangular shapes inside a hexagonal grid, enjoying with mild unexpectedly. The entire Series8 watches are computerized and powered by Citizen 9000-series actions with nice specs and cheap costs. The Series8 831 is US$1,095, once more emphasising how Citizen’s definition of luxurious is relative.

The Attesa assortment appears really futuristic, utilising Citizen’s most superior Eco-Drive modules which use GPS alerts from orbiting satellites to synchronise time mechanically, irrespective of the place you’re. There are many watches made for travelling, however not many can detect once you’ve crossed into one other time zone and regulate the displayed time inside three seconds. It additionally lets you maintain observe of residence time, set alarms, and use a chronograph, making it fulfil the entire duties of an ideal digital watch with a purely analogue show. These two new references set themselves aside with a black ceramic bezel for excessive scratch resistance, whereas the instances are made out of Citizen’s Tremendous-Titanium for light-weight consolation and energy. The silver mannequin is coated with Duratect Titanium Carbide which is nearly as scratch resistant because the ceramic, as is the Duratect DLC coating of the black mannequin. Each of them are nonetheless comparatively reasonably priced too, coming in at US$1,995.

Citizen Premier assortment value and availability

These inaugural Citizen Premier assortment fashions at the moment are out there. Worth: US$1,095 (Series8 831) / US$1,995 (Attesa)