1/1/2024 0 Comments Citizen eco drive divers 200m![]() ![]() The diamond-style texture on the rotating bezel is somewhat mimicked on the Promaster Mechanical Diver’s face. Citizen uses the bezel as part of the expressiveness of the product, meaning that, in addition to being functional, the bezel design is where a lot of the product personality comes from. Speaking of the bezel, did you notice the detailing? From the core shape of the bezel to the intricate cutout markers, this is among the most expressive bezels you’ll find on any new diver’s watch this year. ![]() The design of the case also includes a sort of semi-shroud for the large uni-directional rotating diver’s-style bezel (that is also in titanium). No one really does coated titanium better than Citizen, from what I’ve seen. Super Titanium is a hardened and coated titanium metal that boasts the lightweight strength of titanium with unparalleled surface hardness and scratch resistance. The case is produced from titanium and uses Citizen’s Super Titanium technology. I much prefer this approach to what we see with some Seiko and Casio dive watches where the standard strap is just really long. Note that Citizen includes a strap extender segment should you want to wear the watch over a wetsuit. On the comfortable, soft urethane diver’s-style strap, it wears very comfortably. It isn’t small, though, at 46mm-wide, 15.3mm-thick, and with a roughly 51mm lug-to-lug distance. The case, overall, is a thing of beauty in both construction and design. Citizen combines much of its sports watch DNA with a lot of modern elements, including aggressive masculine angles on the case and buckle that I happen to like. What I like most about the Citizen Promaster NB6004-08E is how it wears and how it looks. The 9051 automatic movement features the time with date (and notice how the date is on a cool-looking silver disc). Citizen claims this Promaster Mechanical is able to withstand magnetic fields of 16,000 A/m. The movement is also highly magnetic-resistant, putting this Promaster sports watch in the same group as the major Swiss Made watches now boasting high magnetic resistance. ![]() The movement is a modern 4Hz frequency mechanism with 42 hours of power reserve. The caliber 9051, as used in the Promaster Mechanical Diver 200m, is a wise choice. One of those movements is the Citizen caliber 9051, which is at the heart of this new Promaster Diver model. For 2021, Citizen released a series of brand-new in-house mechanical movements that are debuted in the refreshed Series 8 collection. Citizen has plenty of history with mechanical diver’s watches, but, for the most part, have focused on its Eco-Drive (light-powered quartz) movements as the basis of new diver’s watch models. The Citizen Promaster Mechanical Diver 200M reference NB6004-08E represents a return to automatic movement-based dive watches by the major Japanese watchmaker. One of the most interesting new Citizen watches for 2021 was quietly announced in March and isn’t even being sold widely around the world. ![]()
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