[al_borland]

I looked at Citizen briefly during my search.

I don’t think they have anything that solves the non-standard time zone problem.

At $500, it’s moving into a market segment where I’m going to care if something happens to it. I want to be carefree on vacation.

In this particular case, the Casio is unapologetically quartz. I don’t think I’m settling here, and it’s not a cheap watch pretending to be a more expensive watch. It’s a cheap beater watch that also happens to have a world time function. With an analog watch, I’d feel like I was settling for quartz… unless it’s a Spring Drive or F.P. Journe.

At home I have some nice automatics that I general wear. For these, I prefer a very simple aesthetic, a no-date dial is ideal. Citizen tends to have very busy designs.