Japanese engineering is pretty decent these days; this wasn’t always the case, but with Japanese embracing the principles of total quality management, the outcome was pretty much inevitable.

Citizen is a well represented watchmaker with a strong coverage in multiple markets in a number of market segments manufacturing a quality product at a excellent price. I reckon they produce a decent product and just need a little better marketing. I purchased my Promaster in Changi Airport in 2001 when I was off on a contract to Ghana and wanted a fairly robust timepiece. Initially this wasn’t a dive watch for me as I was working in an engineering workshop, I just didn’t want to wreck my high quality timepiece. So this became a knock about watch, a daily beater as it is called in the watch community. It was my first automatic movement and I really liked  it. For a while, it was worn not only to work in an engineering workshop, it was my dive watch too and I still have it more than 20 years later.