I definitely have a thing about the 80s Ana-Digi watches, and today's model is another example.
This watch is an Ana-digi design by Citizen from the early 80s (around 1984). It is based around the 8950 combination module which was developed as Citizen were working on shrinking the size required for an ana-digi design. It was promoted as the new leader in Ana-Digi watches, being 1mm thinner than their earlier 892x series, and having 25% fewer components (also making it easier to assemble and disassemble).
It follows a common design for the Citizen Ana-Digi watches with a square dial on a rectangular case with a 6 digit LCD display along the bottom. There are two buttons and a crown on the right side, and the crown is used for setting both the analogue and digital displays (pulling it out one stop for digital and two stops for analogue). The module also gives it two alarms, a stopwatch, and a timer mode on the digital display. The analogue display is a 3 hand dial, and the second hand also provides a power indicator as it will do 2 second jumps when the power is low.
The case has black screw-on style panels at the top and bottom saying Citizen and water resist 100, with the water resistance level being something that the 8950 module had improved over previous models. The watch also has the CQ logo on the face, signifying that this is an older Citizen quartz watch.
The full model number on the back is 8950-084608, and the strap part number is 3078A. It appears in the 1984 Japanese Citizen watch catalogue which shows that it had a catalogue number of ADB65-0233 and originally sold for ¥30,000. The strange bit is that the model number in the catalogue for this black face model is 083563, and the number on the back (084608) is a white faced model. Also, the face has tiny numbers on the dial which says a model number of 082441 and that number doesn't correspond to any model in the 1984 catalogue, and maybe is from an earlier model.
My grandfather just left me one of these! Trying to learn as much about it as possible.
ReplyDeleteI have a white one. I'm in Australia. Found it in a cupboard whilst moving. Have no idea when, who or where it came from... My band is slightly different; it's a stretchy metal band with brand name plate absent. Can't find it on the net anywhere. Trying to find out info.
ReplyDeleteHad one all black: black case and black strap. It was wonderful! I've losted in Spain many years ago in the countryside. Never found one similar. Pity, it was my mum's gift.
ReplyDeleteI have the citizen ana digi model 8920 but can't imagine how am going to change battery once exhausted. Anyone out there who can help me. Thank you
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ReplyDeleteAny one have citizen 8950-085108 Y, I would like to have it to replace some parts in my watch.
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