Citizen Independent U021 Tsuyoshi Nimura Collaboration Model

I've blogged this design of watch before, but several special editions were also released, and that is what I'm blogging today.

The watch is part of the Citizen Independent line of watches that started on 29th October 2007. The line covers interesting designs at reasonable prices for the fashion conscious, and was a follow-up to Citizen's Independent 1481010 watches that were initially released about a decade earlier.

This model is one of the first batch of the Independent watches released in 2007, and is a special edition Collaboration Model with Tsuyoshi Nimura. Nimura is a Japanese designer, art director, and stylist, born in 1970 who has worked with many clothing lines and celebrities.

The watch is based on the U020 module which is an ana-digi design. The watch is square with a round dial, and round LCD display on the watch face. This Nimura version is all white and has the designers name engraved on the back plate.

The analogue part is a 3 hand dial, operating with a crown. The LCD display (of mirrored digits on a white background) has a curved time display around the top of the dial, and text on mode and time zone around the lower half. For the modes, this watch has world time, 2 alarms, chronograph, and timer (and the display can of course show the date too).

The watch came on sale in October 2007, with a catalogue number of ITX21-5004 and cost 21,000 yen. The full model number is U020-002689-01.