Help Idenifying a Citizen...

[StoneDog]

Every once in a while I see a nice, simple little Citizen at the local Parisian's department store. It has a brown leather strap with a fairly ornate gold face with a calendar hand in addition to second, minute and hour hands. It always catches my eye because it looks like some sort of antique watch. It has a quartz movement I believe.

I'm not a watch expert and I guess Citizen's aren't that great in the scheme of things, but does anyone know anything about the watch? I can't find it online anywhere...

Jon

 

[gadgetnut]

Hey StoneDog,
I wouldn't knock Citizen. They are a good watch. I wore a Citizen Titanium every day for 4 years. It still keeps perfect time and has held up great. The only reason I quit wearing it, was because it had gold-tone accents in the band and around the bezel that have worn off. It looks kinda cheap now, so I replaced it with a Luminox (which I love). Nothing wrong with Citizen.
As far as the watch you've mentioned; sorry, but I'm not familiar with it.

 

[StoneDog]

gadgetnut, I saw a few references to IWC, Omega and Rolex further down. EDITED AFTER SEEING bigcozy's POST /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif: I wasn't sure how well the Citizen name was received in the watch enthusiast world (hoping it wasn't the MagLite of watches). Glad to hear it's not. (end edit)

My Citizen has been a great watch so far (three years and counting), I've only had one issue and that's with a pin that sticks all the way through the band near the clasp. No real fix for that and it's annoying because it always snags on clothing...

Jon

 

[bigcozy]

Citizen makes very good watches, like a lot of things, name and tradition sometimes cost more than function. Almost everyone I talk to about watches would put Citizen in the best-bang-for-the-buck category.

 

[Tomas]

Yup, in "bang-for-the-buck" terms Citizen is a well thought of watch by many. I was very pleased with a number of Citizens I've had over the years.

Almost any Citizen quartz movement watch will have a good movement, often amazingly accurate.

The cases sometimes leave a bit to be desired, but are certainly worth the money.

With the more expensive Citizens (with equivalent functions, of course) you are paying for better cases, not better movements , just as you are with 90 percent of the watches out there in the real world.

If I ran into one I liked, I'd have no worry about buying another.

 

[madecov]

At one time I worked in a watch store and also had a "estate jewlery" business dealing in high end watches.
Citizen makes some the best mid priced watches and has a great warranty. The store I worked in sold both Citizen and Seiko and I can say that Citizen outsold Seiko by 5 to 1. Even at that level we had 3 times the number of Seiko's come back as defective. I have been wearing a Citizen eco-drive World timer I purchased as a close out when it was discontinued as my EDC watch and I wear it on duty. It has held up to the rough and tumble world that sometimes goes along with being a cop. I would not hesitate to wear another Citizen ever.

 

[StoneDog]

OK, OK, I take back any negative implication I may have made about Citizen watches. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I love mine, I'm just a bit frustrated with the pin that's sticking out of the link near the clasp. No biggie... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Jon