The Citizen Calendrier BU0088-51H is a men's Eco-Drive moonphase watch that trades the collection's usual restraint for something colder and more deliberate. The 41.8mm silver-tone stainless steel case is finished with a blue-tone bezel and a recessed crown, keeping the profile smooth and uninterrupted, and it runs on a five-link stainless steel bracelet with a fold-over clasp and push-button release.
The dial is where the money is: multi-layered and worked in deep blue, white, silver and grey, carrying analogue indicators for the month, day and date and a moonphase display towards 6 o'clock. Sapphire crystal sits over the top for genuine scratch resistance, and at 138 grams on the bracelet it has real presence without going heavy.
Inside is Citizen's calibre 8730 Eco-Drive, which converts any light source — sunlight or the lamp on your desk — into stored energy, so there is no battery to replace for the life of the watch. Citizen has been engineering in Japan since 1930 and Eco-Drive is its own in-house technology, which is how a full triple calendar with moonphase arrives here without the servicing cycle a mechanical calendar demands.
Rated to 100 metres, it's a 41.8mm blue dial stainless steel dress watch with sapphire crystal that will take swimming in its stride — a rare combination in a watch this formal. It suits the man who wears one watch to the office, to dinner and to the water, and doesn't want to think about it in between.
What we love about this watch: The blue-tone bezel is the detail that makes the BU0088-51H work. On paper it's a small thing; on the wrist it frames the layered blue dial and turns a dress watch into something with a bit of edge. Add a moonphase you never have to reset because Eco-Drive never stops, and 100 metres of water resistance under a formal-looking face, and you have a watch that quietly does far more than it looks like it should.
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