Watch me now...
I'm a little embarrassed that I'm singing about a watch for crying out loud. Maybe it's because we all are just craving a little honesty this election year. Anyway as an old(er) coot I needed a watch for business (my waning days) and pleasure (hopefully) and being a curmudgeon. This watch is perfect.
The circumference and thickness kind of make you remember older days in watches. The numbers are easy to see against the background (large 4 8 and 12) and the gold double bars to indicate the other hours are sized perfectly compared to the actual numbers. You can see the watch without reading glasses - at least I can this year - and I can even make out the day and date without glasses. Whoever designed the face probably has been studying those Golden Ratios or whatever: there is a pleasing relationship between the circumferences on the face (outer and inner) and the diameters of the outer ring (hours section) and inner circle (most of the day-date the Citizen logo and the main whatchamacallit that the hands attach to). The color of the gold is not bright yellow; it kind of grades to the ochre red-gold - certainly a watch for the Beowulf wannabe's out there (like me). The band is or was an alligator-steer genetic fluke I suppose; reasonably soft. And the color of the band picks up the reddish quality of the metal. It is a very light-weight watch.
Plus it runs on light man! Light! (Must have said that during the 60's sometime....) Pretty cool to think that nobody REALLY knows what's powering this thing. Never needs a battery - gedoutaheah! Really! If you buy this watch (your own) they could bury you on Mt Everest with your arm sticking up perhaps with a baggie around it - I don't know why and in a thousand generations your heirs can come by take the watch leave the baggie and use it until the universe...well whatever it will do.
Do some Amazon reviewers have too much time on their hands? (Clever no?)
Buy this watch. I prefer the gold/brown: more mythic. You'll like it.More detail ...
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