Over the last few years, the Japanese watch industry (ironically enough) has been slowly pushing back upmarket with quartz timepieces in terms of functionality, quality, and price. In a sense, they mark a decided return to “high-end quartz.” The popularity of mechanical watches over quartz watches in the luxury segment meant that the majority of quartz movement-powered watches (those “with a battery”) went down market, leaving little room for pricier quartz timepieces. I want to go back one more step and discuss GPS watches overall and their placement in the market. While the Citizen Eco-Drive Satellite Wave F100 has a few extra things the wearer needs to know (such as what time zone they are in), it easily wins in terms of comfort, size, and weight. Those interested in GPS watches will need to measure a few factors in order to choose the perfect watch for them. I actually feel that it is necessary to discuss the competitor watches from the outset because I don’t think any of them are currently a perfect blend of features and wearability.
So in some senses, those other products are “GPS watches” while the Citizen Satellite Wave F100 is “GPS-controlled.”ĭoes the story stop there? Not exactly. I believe the Casio GPS watches will do the same.
CHANGING THE TIME ZPNE ON A SYNCTIME ATOMIC WATCH UPDATE
While none of the watches will pinpoint your exactly location using GPS data, others (such as the Seiko Astron – reviewed here) will update your time as well as your time zone location. Having said that, some of Citizen’s competitors can use the GPS signals in a limited manner to tell you where you are. What is true is that the watch is able to receive signals from global positioning satellites in order to update the time of the watch. I believe the implication they are attempting to avoid is the notion that the watch can use GPS satellites to tell you where you are. The amazing thing is that if you look at these three Citizen GPS-controlled watches, you can clearly see a design evolution.Ĭitizen is careful not to strictly called the Eco-Drive Satellite Wave F100 a “GPS watch” because it cannot actually tell you where you are. In between the original Satellite Wave and the F100 was the Eco-Drive Satellite Wave Air (hands-on here). What impressed us so much was its design as well as size. aBlogtoWatch initially debuted the Citizen Satellite Wave F100 watch here after seeing it at Baselworld 2014.
CC2006-61E – which is the newest and most wearable of the current crop of Citizen GPS-controlled watches. This article, of course, is a review of the new for 2014 Citizen Eco-Drive Satellite Wave F100 ref. What was at first an experiment priced at almost $4,000 was ultimately adopted by watch lovers, so Citizen continued its GPS-controlled watch family and others followed. While GPS satellite-controlled watches aren’t inherently super new, they didn’t enter the “watch industry mainstream” until Citizen released the original limited edition Eco-Drive Satelite Wave in 2011 (hands-on here). They are the Citizen Eco-Drive Satellite Wave collection, Seiko Astron collection, and the Casio GPS/Atomic clock controlled hybrid watches, such as the G-Shock GPW1000. There are three major collections of GPS satellite-controlled watch families currently available – all produced by the big three Japanese watch makers.
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