Assouline"Citizen: The Essence of Time" Book by Jack Forster

In 1924, the first watch to carry the Citizen name was a pocket watch created by the Shokosha Watch Research Institute, founded to develop key technical skills necessary to make watches for the Japanese market. The name “Citizen” was suggested by the mayor of Tokyo in the hope that watches—at the time, still an expensive luxury that few could afford—might one day be produced for all the citizens of Japan, and then for the world. In the century since, Citizen has never ceased pursuing the goal of making watches that offer true value to those who have chosen to make a Citizen watch part of their daily life.

One of the largest makers of watches in the world, Citizen today manufactures perhaps the widest range of wristwatches of any company on Earth in terms of design, engineering, and technical advances. The scope of the company’s production in many ways reflects the evolution of watchmaking in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. One of the first watch companies to use titanium, Citizen enjoys a history of technical advancements, from pioneering thin watches in the 1960s and developing the Promaster line of professional diver and pilot watches in the 1970s, to Eco-Drive light-powered technology and the Caliber 0100, accurate to within one second per year.

Highlighting a century of milestones, Citizen: The Essence of Time narrates the company’s continuing quest for ever greater precision, innovation, and creativity in expressing the beauty of the human experience of the passage of time, for all citizens of the world.
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Details:

• Hardcover book
• Author: Jack Forster
• 240 pages; 250 illustrations
• Approx. 14"L x 11"W x 1.5"D
• Item Weight (Lbs): 7.6
• Made in Italy

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We created this company to be the first luxury brand on culture. We wanted to supply everything for a contemporary library; we started working with top perfumers for scented candles, with Goyard for a book trunk, with Chanel on a quilted leather slipcase, and so on. Now we are expanding the Assouline lifestyle brand in stores in the most important cities of the world. We love and believe in books more than everything else, but we also want to extend our vision to create all that can be expected in a chic and personalized library, from beautiful books and special editions to luxury gift items, unique library accessories, and now a complete turnkey collection of stylish furniture. Our digital world goes faster than ever and nothing remains of it, but books are a solid part of our past and present. They are also beautiful. For us, books are a matter of intellect and emotion; heritage and innovation. Information is not only about today, and the past is a sensational source of inspiration.
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