Showing posts with label 1A36 module. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1A36 module. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Citizen Vagary Shiny Brown 1A36 Watch

Last time I blogged a watch from the Citizen Vagary line, it was different than the normal metal watch with colourful dials. Today's watch is another which fits with that style.

The watch is an entirely plastic design, with a colour matched plastic case and strap, and even a plastic back panel (but that is held on with metal screws). The front screen is also a raised plastic design with a ribbed pattern around the edges. The back doesn't hold all of the information, which is unusual, only having the Vagary name and logo, statements that it is 5 bar water resistant and has a Japanese movement, and that it is made of plastic.

In order to find out the information about the watch, you have to read the extremely small print at the bottom of the dial. This writing reveals that the watch contains a 1A36 module, and has a full model number of 1A36-S086677. The watch is a 3 hand dial design with a simple face of only white hour and minute markers on the brown face (except for the Vagary name and logo at the 3 o'clock position).

I've not spotted this shiny brown version online so far, but have found this design in blue (also with a 1A36-S0866xx model number). I think it is a modern model, so I'm guessing early 2010s (as there is no serial number for identification), but it could be late 2000s too.

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Citizen Vagary 1A36

It's not been so long since I last posted one of this brand, but I thought it matched so well with my t-shirt today that I couldn't resist.

The watch is by the Vagary line of watches by Citizen. The Vagary line has a lot of mystery as the main website you fine is by Citizen's Italian branch, but most of the web pages and sales sites are in Japanese. The watches in the line seem to be more colourful and playful looking than the other lines, but there are sensible looking models too.

This model is based around the 1A36 quartz movement, and is a much more plain watch than the other Vagary's I've posted. It is a 3 hand dial design in a rectangular case. The design is blue, white, and silver, with blue coloured hands (and a star on the seconds hand) and a blue and white leather strap. The numbers on the dial are in a stretched font, but there is no 6 or 12 with those just being marked with the dial pattern.

The full model number is 1A36-S034043, but there is no serial number to indicate the date. If I assume that the 1A36 module is an update of the 90s 1036 module, then I guess that this is a 2000s watch.