It’s been 100 years since Citizen made their first product in 1924, a pocket watch with the name CITIZEN. Celebrating that first product, CITIZEN has released a modern version of this pocket watch. But instead of replicating the past, the company decided to reinvent the design, taking 2024 as a starting point and making an even better watch.

The new design focuses on accuracy and aesthetics without forgetting the essence of the watch and passing it down through generation in this evolved pocket watch. The modern version gets the same devotion to achieve excellence, just like the 1924 CITIZEN pocket watch that lives on today.

CITIZEN honors the original layout by keeping those Arabic numerals with small seconds at 6 o’clock, but there are some elegant new touches. Through clear coating, electroforming, and polishing, the design team has created unique dial pattern with an evocation of the build-up snow during a snowfall that suggests the accumulation of time gone by. The see-through case back resembles the 1924 model where the bridges are decorated with sensuous parallel lines of equal width composed of 45-degree arc-grained bars. You can witness every detail in the mechanism of this watch, it’s a testament of CITIZEN relentless pursuit of a heightened aesthetic as well as timekeeping precision.

CITIZEN Pocket Watch 100th Anniversary Edition comes with braided cord watch chain, which is crafted by Domyo, a Tokyo company that’s been producing kumihimo braided cord since the mid-seventeenth century. It’s pure Japanese silk, dyed in ravishing indigo specifically for this limited edition pocket watch.