Citizen and seconde/seconde/ Launch a Enjoyable and Inexpensive Tsuyosa Restricted Version

For years now, Romaric Andre, higher generally known as seconde/seconde/, has been collaborating with watch manufacturers of all types on artistic restricted editions that successfully function visible puns. He’s utilized his distinctive humorousness and aesthetic to watches made by H. Moser, Spinnaker, Maen, and plenty of extra manufacturers at each conceivable value level. We talked to him about his course of and artwork right here. This is all to say, watch fans have a fairly good understanding of seconde/seconde/ at this level. That’s factor, on one degree, because it means his identify (or his pseudonym, a minimum of) is on the market. But it additionally makes it more durable to shock, which was a lot part of the attraction of these early collaborations. 

The newest from seconde/seconde/ is about nearly as good a distillation of what he’s all about as I can consider, and represents an actual alternative for fans who’ve been ready for one thing reasonably priced and consultant from the designer to latch onto. The new watch, a collaboration with Citizen, is a restricted version of that model’s Tsuyosa built-in bracelet sports activities watch. This is a platform that has confirmed to be fairly common for Citizen in recent times, providing a method to get into the usually excessive priced world of built-in bracelet sports activities watches for a minimal preliminary funding. I wrote about my very own expertise with a Tsuyosa right here, and stand by my thesis that it’s an effective way to get a really feel for one of these sports activities watch.

The new restricted version includes a sunray blue fume dial with a pixelated katana impressed minute hand (an early calling card of the seconde/seconde/ design language) that seems to have sliced and diced the utilized hour markers because it has made a rotation across the dial. We additionally see extra slicing marks on the dial. The impact is basically that the decrease half of the hour markers seem rotated barely clockwise from their nonetheless intact higher halves. It’s enjoyable, and a intelligent method to inject some Japanese samurai tradition into the watch in a reasonably literal approach. 

On the caseback, we get a quote from seconde/seconde/ that reads “Being smaller has never stopped Minutes from slicing Hours into pieces,” which provides a extra considerate thematic layer to the piece. It half obscures the Cal. 8210 motion, which winds robotically and has an influence reserve of 42 hours. 

The Tsuyosa specs are unchanged from the usual model of the watch. It stays 40mm in chrome steel, and the case peak is available in at 11.7mm. The watch is water-resistant to 50 meters, and each palms and markers are coated with lume.

Perhaps essentially the most compelling spec of all although is the worth. This restricted version retails for $495, which is a very reasonable value level, for my part, for a watch of this fashion. While I haven’t personally seen this seconde/seconde/ LE, I can vouch for the general construct and end high quality of the usual Tsuyosa. It received’t blow you away below magnification or something, however for round $500 it’s fairly spectacular.

The Citizen x seconde/seconde/ Tsuyosa is a restricted version of three,600 items. Citizen