Collectible Watches

Citizen Watches is one of the largest producers of watches in the world. The company has its beginnings back in 1918 when the Shokosha Watch Research Institute was formed in Tokyo, Japan. The mayor of Tokyo, Mr Shimpei Goto, wanted to see the company succeed, saying it was important that "people appreciated and benefited from the institute's results." It was the ordinary citizens he was concerned about, and with that thought in mind, things started to progress. In 1924 the company produced a luxury, yet affordable, pocket watch, which it named The Citizen. The idea was that the watch would be available to ordinary citizens. The idea worked better than the company could ever have imagined it would at the time.

Over the many years between then and now, Citizen Watches have been the pioneers of many innovative developments in watch technology. Their groundbreaking advances in watch technology have been truly impressive. For example, in the early 1950 the Citizen Watch Company produced the Citizen Calendar, the first watch in Japan to feature a date mechanism.
The Parashock watch, introduced in 1954 gave the world its first shock resistant watch produced by a Japanese manufacturer. The Auto, the country's first automatic-winding wrist watch, was produced in 1958, and in 1959, just one year later, Citizen Watches produced Japan's first water resistant watch, the Parawater. Other important developments in watch technology continued to keep the company ahead of its competitors.

The Citizen Watch Company have the honour of producing the world's thinnest watch, the Diamond Flake. This they did in 1962, and 41 years later they did it again by launching the Stiletto, the world's thinnest watch powered by light. This watch is truly revolutionary. It is a mere 4.4 millimetres thick, and it features an advanced eco-drive technology.

The Citizen Watch Company started to export their watches in 1936, initially to parts of Asia, but by the late 1950s they were exporting to the People's Republic of China, and by the early 1960s they started to export to the United States through an agreement with the Bulova Watch Company. By the mid 1960s they had started exporting to Europe. Their first Citizen Watch Company office in Europe was opened in Germany in 1965.

Conclusion

Citizen Watches have been at the leading edge of watch manufacture for decades, and they show no signs of slowing down or stopping in the early part of the 21st century either.


By Martyn Bramley 

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