Citizen eco drive divers 200m8/25/2023 ![]() In 1982, Super Titanium didn’t exist, and the lightweight metal was not typically used in timepieces, given its expense. ABTW visited Citizen in Japan and viewed its state-of-the-art Super Titanium production facilities. There are really no better titanium watches on the market for the money. While most luxury watch brands still use more or less natural (untreated) titanium, Citizen produces “Super Titanium” watches that have base titanium metals applied with a variety of in-house treatments that offer both strength and scratch resistance. The 1982 Professional Diver 1300m is also Citizen’s first titanium diver’s watch, a material the brand thoroughly invested in through the next decade and continues to invest heavily in today. At the time, in 1982, when Citizen released a watch with so much water resistance, it was considered a very big deal. Any watches exposed to deeper depths are attached to the outside of submersible vehicles (so, just for fun or testing purposes) that protect the operators in a pressurized environment. While there are diving watches today with a deeper rating, it doesn’t matter much because such depths exceed what the human body can tolerate. It was in 1982 that Citizen released what was then the deepest-diving watch made in serial production with a water resistance rating of 1,300 meters. ![]() But when it comes to professional-use diver’s watches of the 1980s, the Japanese (Citizen, Casio, Seiko) absolutely dominated in terms of style, value, and innovation. ![]() The connection to the early 1980s professional diver’s watch is just the icing on the cake for this truly top-notch budget-friendly Japanese sports watch.Ĭitizen has limited information about this special watch (that’s not uncommon, as it wasn’t until the 1990s that most watch companies started to keep more detailed records of their products and the development around them). The appeal of the modern BN0228-06W and the other Citizen Promaster Eco-Drive Diver 200m watches is that you get all the benefits of a rock-solid daily-wear dive-style sports timepiece (comfort, legibility, style, durability, versatility), along with a distinctive case design that is utilitarian in aesthetic (perfect for tool-watch lovers). The modern interpretations of the classic professional watch discussed below are known simply as the “Citizen Promaster Eco-Drive Diver 200m.” The three currently available are the references BN0220-16E (most like the original 1982 model), the BN0227-09L (blue and inspired by ocean colors), and the green-accented reference BN0228-06W (seen in these photos). This article explores both the original vintage Japanese diver’s watch from 1982, as well as a version of the modern reinterpretation of it that is not only a stellar sports watch today but also faithfully recaptures the spirit of the original. Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch for advertiserīack in 2021, Citizen introduced another modern watch collection inspired by an important element from its past.
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