Citizen Navihawk. I can’t remember how or why I ended up with this watch.
It’s nothing I’d usually look for so my best bet is that I accepted it as a means
of payment in some other watch deal. The watch was cool though. Tons of
features but I don’t think I even opened up the manual to learn about them. From
reading the specifications you could tell that this watch could be a pretty
nice travel companion using the atomic time keeping function that would automatically
synchronize to all the different time zones around the world.
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| #262 - The Citizen Navihawk, ref. JY8035-04E. |
The watch itself
looked pretty cool with its extremely busy dial and PVD treatment. It looked
professional. It measured 48mm excl. crown but I don’t remember that the size
bothered me, instead I remember it wore pretty nice for being that big. What I liked
the most was the rubber that had the big NAVIHAWK print all over but I think
Citizen should have fitted it with a better clasp than the cheap generic kind
that you find on so many rubbers. I assume it’s a pilot’s watch but I have no
clue how it compares to e.g. Breitling’s pilot series. Are Citizen doing their
own thing? Are they copying Breitling? Are the features better/worse than
Breitling’s? Should you even compare the two? I have no clue whatsoever. All in all it felt
like a decent watch of good quality that could do a whole lot more than I
figured out.
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