Video Evaluate – The Citizen Promaster Diver Fujitsubo NB6021-17E

Light-weight, extraordinarily snug, handsome, and a real efficiency discount. And a watch with a reasonably cool backstory too. Citizen is unquestionably identified for its accessible watches with excellent high quality/value ratio, and the model’s newest creation within the subject of dive watches isn’t going to vary this, in any respect. As we speak, we take the Citizen Promaster Mechanical Diver 200m NB6021-17E, also called the Fujitsubo, for a spin, with our newest video overview. And we inform you all about this cool Nineteen Seventies-inspired diver. 

Most would possibly contemplate Titanium to be a really trendy materials, nevertheless it has been utilized in watchmaking for over half a century. Surprisingly, it’s Citizen that pioneered the primary commercially-available titanium wristwatch. Though accessible in very restricted portions, Citizen’s X-8 Chronometer from 1970 paved the best way for a lot of others to return. Titanium has the distinctive property of being proof against rust, hypoallergenic and very sturdy. And above all, it’s a lot lighter than typical chrome steel. Thus, it makes a perfect materials for watches for a number of causes. Ever since Citizen’s first experiments, the corporate has perfected the method of machining titanium. By the yr 2000, Citizen developed the Duratect floor hardening therapy, making titanium far much less liable to scratches.

The fruits of Citizen’s experience with this materials is one thing known as Tremendous Titanium. This combines the model’s titanium processing expertise, with the Duratect therapy. One of many newest watches with this proprietary materials is Citizen we now have earlier than us immediately. And it comes with an interesting backstory!

Again in 1983, a Citizen Problem Diver from 1977 was recovered from an Australian seaside. Coated in barnacles, the watch miraculously was in operating situation! The mechanical motion had survived years of being in water and dust, protected by its case. That very watch served because the inspiration for this modern-day titanium diver.

The design of the Promaster Mechanical Diver 200m Fujitsubo is nothing actually spectacular, because it reveals the standard design components of classical dive watches. The Tremendous-Titanium case is basic too, at 41mm in diameter and 12.3mm in peak. The matte gray tone is the pure look of Tremendous-Titanium. The bezel on high is polished, and fitted with a gloss-black insert. Manipulating it’s greeted with a clean and resounding suggestions. The bevelled sapphire crystal on high protects the dial, whereas the closed caseback does the identical for the motion. With 200 meters of water-resistance, it’s fairly a decent diver certainly.

As a vertically built-in producer, Citizen produces its actions in-house. The Calibre 9051 inside this Promaster runs at a frequency of 4Hz and provides an influence reserve of 42 hours. It’s reassuring to know the motion is anti-magnetic to 200 Gauss as shut as 1cm away. It might do with a bit extra precision although, as it’s indicated to run inside -10 to +20 seconds of deviation per day.

Citizen provides two variations of the Promaster Fujitsubo. One in titanium and black (reference NB6021-17E), worn on a black polyurethane strap with a titanium pin buckle. And the opposite with a deep blue dial and bezel (reference NB6021-68L), and a three-link Tremendous-Titanium bracelet with a folding clasp. Whereas we solely had the black model in hour fingers, we imagine each will really feel nice on the wrist. The match and end are superb, and because of the light-weight titanium building it doesn’t weigh you down one bit. It retails for about EUR 650 in black and polyurethane strap, and about EUR 750 in blue and titanium bracelet.

Though some feedback may very well be made concerning the motion’s precision, we genuinely really feel that is fairly the efficiency discount. Whichever method you have a look at it, it’s exhausting to disregard the rock-solid proposition this Citizen provides. The Promaster Fujitsubo appears to be like good, feels incredible on the wrist and backs it up with very respectable specs at a really affordable value.

For extra particulars, please go to Citizen’s international web site.