Japanese watchmaker Citizen has traveled back to the ?80s to create a distinctive looking modern dive watch equipped with one of the brand?s latest mechanical movements.

The 46-mm Promaster Mechanical Diver 200m is Citizen?s latest mechanical diver and reinterprets a tool watch design from the ?80s.

In Japanese car culture, a ?Kaido racer? (sometimes wrongly described as a ?B?s?zoku car?) is an extremely modified Japanese street racing car, usually featuring a massive chin spoiler, bolted-on fender flares, externally mounted oil coolers, enormous wings, ?Takeyari? exhaust pipes, wild paint schemes and so on. You get the picture. These cars are extreme, exaggerated rides, and they are loud in every meaning of the word. Owners of these highly customized cars take inspiration from the silhouette racing cars from the late ?70s to the mid-?80s, and it appears that the designers at Citizen Watch Corp. have chosen a similar approach for their latest mechanical diver, simply named ?Citizen Promaster Mechanical Diver 200m? (Ref. NB6004-08E). In 1982, the brand introduced the quartz-powered Professional Diver 1300m (which briefly was the dive watch with the highest depth rating). Citizen had opted for an ?ultra-airtight? titanium case with four visible screws near the lugs to address the needs of saturation divers, and the knurled crown was located at 9 o?clock to further increase safety. According to Citizen, the ?Professional 1300m [?] with a tough four-sided bezel shroud aro...