The Japanese brand has been in the business of making GPS-equipped watches for quite some time now. Their new technical Citizen Promaster Navihawk Satellite Wave GPS replica watch is a fine example of how you can get a lot of experience, a block of high-grade steel, a handful of silicon parts and create an absolutely wonderful object that can be a watch.
There is a lot of high-tech machinery inside this affordable Citizen Promaster Navihawk Satellite Wave GPS replica watch, so the watch is predictably big. At 47 millimeters in diameter it is a tad smaller than the brand’s earlier attempts at this sort of gadgets, but it still leaves an impressive footprint on your wrist. The lugs are very short and therefore the total length of the Navihawk GPS is just over 51 millimeters, but the distinguished Citizen replica watch is also quite thick, so some may find wearing it not especially comfortable.
The dial on this new Citizen Promaster Navihawk Satellite Wave GPS replica watch may not look as interesting as the one on the 2011 Satellite Wave that featured a linear layout of its sub-dials, but, well, at least it is easier to read even despite more streams of information that are simultaneously available to the owner of the watch.
Styling-wise, I would say that this Citizen replica watch is one of the best multifunctional timekeepers released by a Japanese brand during the last decade. Although not terribly innovative, it is actually quite elegant and, well, designed for the grown-ups, not for the first-graders as many members of the G-Shock family tend to look like.
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