2018-02-02

No 263 - Citizen Navihawk

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. 

#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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