![]() ![]() #Citizen calibre watch serialIn America, buyers are spoiled for choice with JN Shapiro offering groundbreaking guilloche dials, and RGM offering serial production in-house tourbillons. I long to own a Credor Eichi II, one of the finest Japanese watches ever made. Philippe Dufour wears a Rolex or a Lange, presumably the former for its reliability and robustness, and the latter for its beauty, attention to detail, and craftsmanship, while he himself is widely considered the greatest living watchmaker today, and his watches are unobtainium of the highest order in terms of price and availability. What determines whether a watch is the best ever made? Materials? Craftsmanship? Technical ingenuity? Design? Complications? Heritage? Something else? I would posit each of these is ultimately extraneous to whether a watch fulfills its primary purpose, and yet we live in a world that values all those attributes. However, to claim it is therefore one of the best watches to have ever been made is sadly an arguable statement of opinion, which is why I will proceed to spill words to belabor the point. Calling it the most accurate wristwatch ever made to not reference an external time signal is to make an objective statement of fact. ![]() Similarly, we commonly tell time with hands indicating the hour, minutes and seconds rotating round a graduated dial, to which the digital display is the modern, ubiquitous alternative.īut if a watch is defined by its purpose, and that purpose primarily is to keep the time, then there is simply no watch in the world now, and there never has been, better than the Citizen Caliber 0100. We can keep time in a few different ways, but quartz watchmaking, like the Citizen Caliber 0100, far surpasses everything else in terms of precision and accuracy. If they have a second.What is the purpose of a watch? Most fundamentally it is to keep the time, and to tell the time to state as much is an objective statement of fact (otherwise I don’t know what we’re all doing). ![]() (Not like my rehab-friendly $235 Citizen ProMaster Tough.) Here’s hoping Xace takes the 0100 out of the safe at least once a year. But there is one for the less expensive model. Given the relatively small customer base, it’s no surprise that Citizen’s website isn’t exactly chock-a-block with rave reviews for the Caliber 0100. I reckon that tidy sum paid paid for the lion’s share of the development and engineering costs. The pricier AQ6010-06A dumped $1.68m into the company’s coffers. If Citizen did indeed sell out of both models, if there’s not a bunch of these bad boys sitting in dealer inventories waiting for a home, the AQ6021-51E grossed Citizen $3.7m. Assuming you were one of only 100 customers, the ridiculously accurate minimalist meisaku sucked some $16,800 from your wallet. Ah, but the AQ6021-51E is - I mean “was” - a lot less than the original Caliber 0100.įor an additional $9,400, Citizen blessed the Caliber 0100 AQ6010-06A with an ivory dial, packaged it in an 18KT white gold case and affixed a black crocodile strap. That’s a pretty penny for a Citizen – even if the 38mm minimalist timepiece is The World’s Most Accurate Wristwatch™ (that doesn’t rely on an external signal to adjust time). Just so you know, these fortunate few shelled-out $7,400 for the privilege. If we can believe Citizen’s website, the Japanese watchmaker has sold all 500 AQ6021-51E’s. Now how much would you pay? Sorry, sold out. And the AQ6021-51E boasts a Super Titanium™ case and bracelet, a skeleton caseback and an anti-reflective sapphire crystal. That’s some astounding timekeeping right there. According to the manufacturer, their quartz timepiece’s accuracy varies by. The Citizen Caliber 0100 is the world’s most accurate wristwatch movement - that doesn’t rely on an external signal to adjust time. ![]()
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