Sometimes, an unlikely set of watches make their way into our collections simultaneously. When the watch is this unusual, it needs a bit of context to connect the dots. Today, Blake and Zach recount a watch that found a way into their hearts as quickly as their watchboxes, the strangely loveable, or loveably strange, Citizen Promaster Diver BN022. Ed reviewed this watch for us right here, but it wasn?t until a chance encounter at the Windup Watch Fair that things really escalated. Read for both Zach?s and Blake?s thoughts on this wild one, and keep an eye out for more owner?s roundtable discussions coming soon.

Zach Kazan
Do you ever have an immediate infatuation with a watch" I?ll be honest, it happens less and less with me. I think it?s a reflection of the work we do here day in and day out, which is the constant evaluation of watches. It just takes more time to warm up to something when you have so many watches competing for your attention. This is good for my bank account, I suppose, but I sometimes miss the feeling of knowing you just have to have a watch on sight. There?s a certain romance to that. 
Well, at the Windup Watch Fair in Chicago this summer, I had that experience again, and I still have it in little fits when I look at my watch box and see the Citizen Promaster Dive sitting there, ticking away. This, readers, is not a conventionally good looking watch. It?s basically a big gray square, with a gnarly notched bezel protected by a shroud at e...