This year, Citizen is proud to announce the release of the Satellite Wave GPS F950 to honor and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the brand?s first titanium watch, the X8 Chronometer, in 1970. The new watch is the culmination of 50 years worth of knowledge and expertise coalescing into the ultimate expression of titanium in the form of Citizen?s own Super Titanium. Innovations are earned, and Citizen was the first watch brand to pioneer use of this material in consumer grade watches, and with each generation a new benchmark has been set. The 50th anniversary is no exception. 
When Citizen released the X8 Chronometer, there was nothing like it on the market. The watch utilized Citizen?s battery-powered caliber 0820, a certified chronometer that utilized a balance wheel similar to traditional mechanical movements. This was packaged into a case constructed of 99.6% pure titanium. It was lightweight, highly accurate, and even scratch resistant. The X8 naming convention signifies the optimism inherent in the watch: the ?X? signifying venturing into the unknown, while the ?8? takes on the meaning of the infinity symbol. This watch launched Citizen on the journey to pursue perfection in the medium of titanium.
The Titanium Citizen X8

The next step was refining the material for a new generation of watches. In 1987, Citizen released the ATTESA, which featured a more refined, polished finish that gave the watch greater flexibility as a formal option. By 2000, Citizen deve...