The Citizen Promaster Dive BN0267-04L is the blue one — and the most overtly "watch" of the four new Promaster divers. A blue sunray dial sits inside a 40.6mm silver-tone stainless steel case, catching light across its surface and deepening toward the edges, matched to a blue IP unidirectional dive bezel and a navy strap so the whole piece reads as one tone.
Applied indices and luminous hands hold legibility in low light and underwater, a date sits at three o'clock, and anti-reflective sapphire crystal keeps glare off the dial in bright sun. A screw-down crown seals the case, and at 11.7mm thick and 86 grams this stays one of the slimmer 200m men's dive watches you can buy — a real consideration if you actually intend to wear it under a shirt.
Driving it is Citizen's new Eco-Drive Calibre E118, a Japanese light-powered movement that charges from sunlight or ordinary room light and never needs a battery. This generation is the meaningful one: roughly a year of running time from a full charge, accuracy rated to ±15 seconds per month, and Type 1 magnetic resistance to shrug off the fields thrown by phones, laptops and speakers.
The 200m water resistance is ISO-certified for scuba diving, so the bezel and depth rating are working equipment rather than decoration. Blue is the holiday-and-water colourway of this range — the one that looks most obviously at home against the sea and still passes at the office on Monday — and it makes a strong case as a first proper men's blue dive watch.
What we love about this watch: Blue divers are a crowded field, and most of them get the colour half-right. The BN0267-04L holds one continuous blue across dial, bezel and strap, which is a harder thing to execute than it sounds and reads far more expensive than the price suggests. That it does it with a movement you never have to service the power source on is the part that makes it easy to recommend.
Ships in 1-3 Business Days from Sydney with Australia Post Express. Sydney customers can pick up on the same day from our Alexandria showroom an hour after placing the order by choosing Click & Collect as the delivery option.
5 Year warranty from Citizen Watches (Australia). StarBuy are Authorised distributors of Citizen Watches. All Citizen Watches are shipped in Citizen original packaging released for Australia. All Citizen warranties are registered online on the Citizen Warranty Portal directly by StarBuy on behalf of the customer. After purchase and shipping by StarBuy, an email is sent by Citizen registering the warranty directly to the buyer. A link to the online instructions manual is also sent within the email. Citizen no longer supply any hard copies of the warranty booklet or the instructions manual.
