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Citizen watch is a true manufacture d’horlogerie with a comprehensive manufacturing process that extends from creating a watch’s individual components to its final assembly. The company operates in more than 100 countries around the world.
Since its founding in 1918, Citizen have held the belief of ‘Better Starts Now’ — that is, no matter who you are and what you do, it is always possible to make something better, and now is the time to start doing it. Sharing this belief, we have made watches, invented and improved technologies and explored the future of watches such as our propriety light-powered technology Eco-Drive and state-of-the-art satellite-synchronised timekeeping.
Distinctive, distinguished and delicate, the FD2033-52W in rose gold plating and stainless steel, is designed for the wrist of the woman of taste by Citizen. This model from the brand’s Elegance Collection is now available in the Middle East market.
The rose gold plating gives a pleasing sheen to the stainless steel case, which encloses a stylish dial which accommodates three subdials housing the day, date and 24-hr displays.
The stainless steel strap comes with a fold-over push button clasp and the watch, which is water resistant to 5 BAR, runs on the light-powered Eco-Drive technology and has a power reserve of 6 months, comes with an insufficient charge warning and an overcharge prevention function.
And for the men Citizen presents the Men’s Eco Drive Chronograph with Perpetual Calendar BL5472-01E with Brown Leather strap, a veritable beauty from the brand’s Signature Collection.
This elegant chronograph from Citizen stands out with a gold plated bezel that contrasts well with the black dial. All this is set off quite sharply by the
elegant brown strap.
The watch features a stopwatch, perpetual calendar, which is a fully automatic calendar, which routinely adjusts at the end of every month and is calibrated to keep track of leap years, date feature, 24 hour time and an alarm. The dial is clear to read with white markings against the dark face. The watch is 100M water resistant.
The watch comes with an 8-month power reserve and has an insufficient charge warning and overcharge prevention function.
Eco-Drive watches use a battery recharged by a solar panel hidden under the watch face. In the rare and discontinued Eco-Drive Duo series, the solar power was supplemented by an automatic quartz power source.
One early model, called the Citizen Vitality, used the watch hands to drive a small electric generator, but was discontinued following complaints that the device could explode and cause wrist injuries.
The brand also has an Eco-Drive Thermo model that exploited temperature differentials between the wearer’s skin temperature and ambient temperature to recharge the battery.
However, the only Eco-Drive system described on the Citizen Watch official web site is the one depending solely on light to recharge.
