![]() ![]() ![]() Inside you’ll find Citizen’s Eco-Drive E168 movement that’s powered by any light source, meaning (theoretically) the battery will never need replacing. ![]() This includes a small date aperture at 3 o’clock, which retains a small remnant of lume to its right to keep up to ISO spec. The rest of the dial adheres to the design codes found in many generations of Citizen dive watches and they feel right at home placed with the sea of lume. It’s glorious in nature and makes a quick read of where you are within the hour trivially easy from even the quickest of passing glances. This minute hand dominates the dial as the only element that breaks from the light green and black colors applied across the rest of the dial. This is aided by their sheer size of course, and the chapter ring in the rehaut itself.Īnd then there’s the giant, bright orange hand. The markers get a thin black outline, but there’s plenty of contrast to make out the markings at a glance. The hour plots are filled with lume of nearly the same color, but appear a bit brighter after a flash of light is applied to them. Like the Aqualand JP2007-17W, the lume dial here is a light creamy green color that jumps off the black backdrop of the case and bezel. It takes a near novelty level watch to a supremely practical level of watch. The camo execution was funky enough to jive with the unusual case design, but the full lume feels like a more practical solution to bring a unique level of clarity and contrast to the watch as a whole. Lume dials are a tricky thing to pull off properly, but here it feels like a totally natural extension of the design of this watch. The latest Promaster Dive uses the same fabulous gunmetal titanium case, but pairs it with a full lume dial and a bright orange minute hand. And if you are into camo, you’ll probably still like it as well. If camo isn’t quite your thing (I don’t blame you), their latest take on this platform might be right up your alley. To me, Citizen is at their best when they lean into the slightly strange, and they’ve got a number of designs that qualify, including these wonderful Ecozilla “ashtray” watches recently released. Zach Kazan and I wrote about our impressions as owners of the same variant of this watch, with a perfectly unsubtle blue camo dial, and it’s a watch we both come back to often. I haven’t been shy about sharing my adoration for this particular Promaster Dive watch from Citizen. ![]()
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