For this reason some people love or hate the Citizen Chronomaster. No one would know this fact save for the person wearing the watch. The effect is an understand watch with gold trim that is light and very durable.

Depending on the model, you can get a very nice case and bracelet that looks like steel, but is actually white ion-plated titanium, with an 18k gold bezel as pictured above. The accuracy of the Citizen Chronomaster is not the only admirable feature.

The Citizen Chronomaster is more self reliant and features a more sophisticated movement. You need to be in range, and this only works in the US, Japan, and parts of Europe. The next step up would be a radio controlled watch that receives signals from the nearest atomic clock. By no means should you love mechanical movements any less, but you cannot argue with the accuracy of a high-end quartz movement. So compare these Citizen Chronomaster high-end quartz accurate to within 5 seconds a year, or certified Chronometer accurate to withing 6-10 seconds a day. A certified Chronometer (COSC) mechanical movement is usually accurate to about 6 seconds a day (up to about 12 seconds). An extremely accurate quartz movement that is accurate to within 5 seconds a year! For those of you who do not know, this is about 15 times more accurate than a traditional quartz, and worlds more accurate than a mechanical movement. The major selling point of the Citizen Chronomaster series is the movement. Instead, the Chronomaster is about being a watch that is supremely easy to live with, and that is the whole point. No one is going to ask you questions about where you got it. You would feel perfectly comfortable wearing it to a meeting, to a wedding, or on vacation.

It is a classic and attractive watch with no frills. Seeing the Chronomaster doesn’t evoke much. The Citizen Chronomaster is a type of watch that only the wearer will be able to appreciate because its value is all hidden. The Citizen Chronomaster is a watch that would never be marketed in the US because the consumer interest would not match the costs of distribution. Good thing that there are still channels for the US to get most of the goods, even if the instructions aren’t in English. The Japanese market gets so much we don’t.

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