CITIZEN DIGITAL WATCHES: 70s- 2000 History of Ana-digi temp, Calculators, Promaster , Independent

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.

#citizen #citizenwatch #citizendigital

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

[johanvandersandt]

My favorite brand ever!!! Never knew they had such an extensive digital collection!

[WesWatchRoom]

Honestly mate with the time and effort you put into these video you deserve way more recognition. Didn't know all these Citizen existed and I'm glad I do now. Had no clue Citizen was so important in the digital watch space too. Well done mate.

[destrygriffith]

Fascinating visual watch history lesson. I had assumed Casio was responsible for everything that Citizen had innovated!

[prabhusubramanyam]

Nice, Feels like Opened the Time Capsule, Thanks

[degenerateWA]

Brilliant as always🤘 Remind me why you aren't you at 100k subs?

[periclesstamatis]

Great Video as always, love the fact that you have your sources on screen as it helps for additional reading, and really goes too show how much effort you put in your work. I would say you along with watchfinder and king of vintage are some of the very few watch channels that are better than a triple-a TV production! Cheers!

[tbone]

Great history. Just outside of your time frame, I had a Citizen Skyhawk A-T in 2002. It was a fantastic watch when I worked on a cruise ship. It made it easy to change time zones which was a feature I used a lot. Even the slide rule bezel was handy for unit conversion. It lasted about 10 years before the yellow second hand stopped for good. Nowadays, I have a promaster Titanium Skyhawk in my collection along with a F150 Sattelite wave.

[ednammansfield]

Really enjoyed this video especially as I had no idea that Citizen produced so any digital watches during that period of time. Some great designs. I have only ever purchased the Citizen Eco Drive watches over the last few years and I have about 12 in my collection atm including an AT one.
Thanks again for all the research you put into your videos they really are awesome.

[iandavidson]

Yours are the only watch videos I watch (no pun intended) from start to finish! Fun, informative and straight to the point! Superb!

[TimeToGoTravelAndTimepieces]

Great work with this one. So many fun watches. Thanks!

[AndySmith]

Great video. I'm here because I just got back from Japan where I bought a new old stock Crystron LCD from 1979.

[arayawin]

Really good job! Brings back a lot of memories!

[rosenfeld]

Another excellent video, love your work!
Btw, I happen to have one of those Ana-digi voice recording models

[Daud]

Fantastic collection and great video, my friend! 🤙🏻

[garethsigrist]

Another fantastic journey down a horological rabbit hole! Awesome atuff 🙌 Reminds me I really do need to get a Citizen in the collection at some point.

[lars-fenin]

great infos/ sum up...
love citizen as a brand or their promasters..
but good to know about their digis..:)

[TickSweep]

Wow what a fantastic video! Some crazy watches

[Supersyncopation]

Another top quality video, you deserve far more views, I hope you keep making great content

[TheGeberel]

Such a good video, full of cool watches.
waiting for the next one

[timtimecollector]

Great video and professional looking too. Some over the top graphic displays in there, the 'Y front undies' watch stands out as eye catching👌