Much of the country might be gripped by the dead of winter, but that doesn?t mean we can?t start thinking about the summer watches we?ll be wearing just a few (OK, maybe more than ?a few?) months from now. In fact, I?d argue that a week where you see multiple major snowstorms leaving the landscape gray, salt stained, and dangerously icy is the perfect time to consider the next summer sports watch. The power of positive thinking, and whatnot. Citizen, it turns out, has a few contenders that have just been announced if you?re on the hunt for something fun and sporty for the warmer months. A bonus: these also work perfectly fine in an Ice Station Zebra situation, but I?m trying to lift myself out of a winter funk, so bear with me while I indulge a short lived fantasy of beach weather and strong drinks with those little umbrellas in them. 
The pair of watches making their debut this month are built on Citizen?s fantastic Eco-Drive platform of solar charged quartz movements, perhaps the ultimate in affordable grab-and-go watch tech. Each watch is also based on Citizen classics from the early 00s, a period of time when the Big Watch trend was reaching a peak. The ?Autozilla,? released in 2002, was a titanium dive watch with a water resistance rating of 1,000 meters in an enormous 55mm case. Citizen followed that watch up with the ?Ecozilla,? a version of the watch with a similar case but powered by light, in 2004. Both are highly sought after by Citizen collectors to t...