Citizen watches have an excellent history , but I would bet that you probably haven't looked into its digital watch catalog too much beyond perhaps the ana-digi temp.. This video provides an overview of the origins of Citizen Watch Co , its first forays into electronic watches and quartz, with the primary focus being on its digital watch offerings.
This overview moves through from the original crystron LC , to their first alarm and multi alarm models , the amazing Citizen crystron calcaultor watches, as well as their 80s sports watch and multi function models. Of particular note is the P130 casio g-shock clone - very cool. Into the 90s we cover the Promaster range , with a favourite being the hyper aqualand and the super fun Citizen independent series which had a whole array of bonkers watches.
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In the research for this video I used multiple sources including:
Pieter Doensons history of the modern wristwatch
Trueb et als electrifyig the wrist watch
Watch sites links to the Citizen catalogs of the 90s
Watchup69 Mr Rangeman's video on the P130 vs. G-shock
Vintage Digital Watch Channels overview of the VX-2
Which watch today's excellent blog on the independet series
...and many more that are listed throughout
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Origins of Citizan Watch Co.
1:34 Electronics
2:56 Crystron and early digitals
4:06 Calculator watches
4:35 Alarm watches
5:41 Ana-Digi or Digi-Ana
6:47 Sport watches
9:15 Technolgy Voice memo etc
9:58 90s and Promaster
11:55 Citizen Independent
13:06 Vega, Oxy , Qn , Glass D
13:38 Novelty
11:53 Misc
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