Citizen's "The Citizen' collection of higher end watches has some of the most impressive and compelling releases coming out of Japan these days. Sure, the name is a little redundant, but there is so much on offer here for independent-minded enthusiasts looking for something unusual before it goes too mainstream. Their AQ4100-65W embodies this spirit and emerged as one of the most impressive sleeper watches in the sub-US $5,000 'everyday wear' category.
The AQ4100-65W demurely belies the fact that it has a whole lot going for it both on and just beneath the surface. The dial is inarguably the star here, with a finish referred to as Tosa washi, which is named after a type of very lightweight and thin Japanese paper. In specific, this watch uses the nearly transparent Tengu-Jo washi as inspiration for the base of the dial. Not just marketing fluff to tie the watch back to flourishing-sounding Japanese techniques, it is named so because of the fact that light must transmit through the dial in order to charge the photovoltaic cell of the solarpowered Eco-Drive movement.
The base of the dial is then finished in a way that hearkens to a decorative technique called Sunago-maki in which a sieve is used to sprinkle shredded platinum leaf onto the washi paper. The result here truly makes it feel like these historic techniques were effortlessly transferred onto a watch dial. In fact, the dial of the AQ4100-65W is done in collaboration with paper manufacture Hidakawashi who created the paper for the dial and Urushi Sakamoto, which is a famed lacquerware workshop that applied the platinum leaf onto the dial.
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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