Citizen Launches Bold Deadpool and Wolverine Watches In Collaboration with Marvel

With the smash-hit release of Deadpool & Wolverine, Citizen has capitalized on the buzz by launching two character-inspired timepieces that are as bold and beloved as the movie itself. These watches dedicated to Wolverine and Deadpool capture the spirit of the characters and offer fans a stylish way to celebrate their favorite Marvel heroes.

Designer: Citizen

The Wolverine watch is a powerful statement piece, designed to reflect the essence of Logan himself. With a 43mm black ion-plated stainless steel case, it’s as rugged as the character it represents. The blue dial, accented with luminous retractable claws, draws immediate attention, while a yellow outer ring and silver-tone markers add depth and contrast. Luminous hands make it easy to read at a glance, day or night.

Adding a touch of fandom, the X-Men logo proudly marks the 12 o’clock position, and the case back features the iconic “SNIKT!” sound that every Wolverine fan knows by heart. But this watch isn’t just about aesthetics. It’s powered by Citizen’s Eco-Drive technology, and it runs on light, eliminating the need for a battery. It’s a perfect blend of form, function, and fanfare.

If Wolverine’s watch is fierce, the Here Comes Deadpool watch is nothing short of cheeky. This timepiece captures Deadpool’s irreverent spirit with a 42mm black ion-plated stainless steel case and a black textured dial that humorously features Deadpool’s masked face upside down at the 12 o’clock mark. Surrounding this playful design is a red dial ring, emblazoned with “Merc With a Mouth,” which lights up alongside the hands, markers, and Deadpool’s eyes, making this watch impossible to ignore.

The black leather strap, with its red topstitching, perfectly matches Deadpool’s signature colors. Flip it over, and you’ll find an engraving of Deadpool in a relaxed, reclining pose. A perfect example of his trademark humor. And like the Wolverine watch, it’s powered by Eco-Drive technology, ensuring it stays as irrepressible as its namesake.

While both watches share the same innovative technology, their differences are what make them stand out. With its larger 43mm case, the Wolverine watch features a simple date complication and a protective crown guard. In contrast, the 42mm Here Comes Deadpool watch offers both day and date complications and a sleek, guardless crown. The Deadpool watch also comes with a 20mm leather strap, while Wolverine’s timepiece sports a 22mm width bracelet, echoing Logan’s rugged style.

For those who love luminous features, each watch has its own unique light show. The Here Comes Deadpool watch is all about fun, with Deadpool’s eyes, indices, hands, and the “Merc With a Mouth” text lighting up the night. Meanwhile, the Wolverine watch uses lume to highlight its retractable claws motif and the X-Men logo, staying true to its fierce inspiration.

Despite their striking designs and advanced features, these timepieces remain surprisingly affordable. The Wolverine Edition is priced at $425, while the Here Comes Deadpool watch is available for $350. Perhaps it’s Deadpool’s idea of a joke that his watch is the cheaper of the two, but both offer tremendous value for fans and collectors alike.

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This Special Limited-Edition Pocket Watch is centenary recreation of the first Citizen pocket watch

Citizen, as the name suggests, is one watchmaker who has perfected the art of making timepieces people “love and use for a long time.” This journey started somewhat with the first product, a pocket watch titled Citizen, from where the company perhaps acquired its name. One hundred years have passed since 1924, when this pocket watch was made; now to commemorate the feat, the Japanese watch manufacturer has recreated its first pocket watch.

The 100th anniversary edition of the first Citizen pocket watch dubbed the Special Limited-Edition Pocket Watch could scale back the time for these tactile timepieces that were once a staple but lost popularity as wristwatches took over as the timepiece of choice. Staying true to the original in more ways than one, the recreated, modern timepiece makes subtle changes on the dial.

Designer: Citizen

Given that the new pocket watch revisits the era gone by, it also tabs on some modern-day horology nuances to make this special edition model a prominent bridge between the past and present. To that accord, the Special Limited-Edition Pocket Watch features a 43.5mm titanium case with sapphire glass on the front and back. The watch measures 13.4mm at the thickest point and to remain true to the original counterpart, has Arabic numerals, blue hands, and the small seconds at 6 o’clock as in the OG.

It’s essentially the white electroformed dial that spurs the change. Finished with clear coating and polishing, the dial has a unique pattern that Citizen notes is an “evocation of the build-up of snow during a snowfall that suggests the accumulation of time gone by.”

The timekeeping on the new Special Limited-Edition Pocket Watch is ensured by a hand-wound movement with a free-sprung balance wheel adding a touch of modernity. The movement provides a 55-hour power reserve and a noted accuracy of -3/+5 seconds/day. An ideal 21st-century pocket watch, Citizen centenary recreation is paired with an indigo charcoal colored silk braided cord that matches the hands on the dial. The watch strictly limited to 100 examples will retail with limited-edition number engraving and inspection certificate for $9,000 apiece.

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The Citizen CZ Smart YouQ smartwatch uses NASA and IBM technology to ‘predict’ your fitness

Dubbed the ‘Smarter Watch’, the CZ Smart doesn’t track you through the day… it anticipates your day in advance.

Watchmaking pioneer CITIZEN just revealed its latest offering at CES this year – the CZ Smart watch + the YouQ app, designed in partnership with IBM Watson and NASA Ames Research Center. While looking just like any premium watch, the next-gen CZ Smart’s true functionality is unlocked when combined with the YouQ app that gathers, parses, and learns from the data provided by the smartwatch. The watch comes in a variety of styles, sporting CITIZEN’s iconic design with a rotating bezel, a crown and two pushers sitting beside the circular display, and the ability to swap between leather, silicone, mesh, and link variants.

Designer: CITIZEN

“The latest CZ Smart watch is a game-changing product that brings CITIZEN’s legacy of watchmaking together with best-in-class research and technology of NASA and IBM, directly to wearers’ wrists,” said Jeffrey Cohen, President at CITIZEN Watch America. “Coupled with the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application, this smartwatch is a revolution in wearable wellness.”

The unisex watch comes with a metal body made from 316L stainless steel. Now in its second-gen (the first gen was released back in 2020), the watch also comes with the YouQ app that uses machine learning to constantly learn more and more about you so the longer you wear the watch, the more personalized its experience gets. The smartwatch sports a 1.28″ AMOLED display that offers high visibility in any time of the day, and the battery lasts for 24 hours on a full charge. The watch also comes with a built-in gyroscope, altimeter, barometer, accelerometer, heart rate sensor, SP02, and an ambient light sensor. It runs the Wear OS by Google, but is interoperable with both Android and iOS devices.

The CZ Smart YouQ app is perhaps the most impressive bit of tech here. Developed in partnership with IBM and NASA, the YouQ app possesses the ability to crunch data in ways that other smartwatches can’t. While smartwatches just present diagnostic data like your heart rate, sleep quality, fitness, weather, etc, the YouQ goes into prognosis, actively predicting and giving you actionable insights. It studies your sleep patterns and tells you when to sleep to get the best quality rest, tracks your behavior and provides key insights to help you stay more focused and less fatigued, and lets you generate Alert Scores to test your mental acuity. Alert Scores are generated when a wearer takes a custom-designed Alert Monitor test, a consumer-facing iteration of NASA’s Psychomotor Vigilance Task Test (PVT+), originally developed to determine the mental acuity of astronauts.

The Citizen CZ Smart 2nd gen watches will be available starting March 2023 on CITIZEN’s website with a price range of $350 – $435. The proprietary YouQ application will be available at the same time, although it’s only designed to work with the 2nd gen CZ Smart range of watches, and a hybrid series that will launch at a later date.

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