New JDM Citizen models and other interesting developments....

I was perusing the Citizen Japan official site (www.citizen.jp) and was presented with new model releases to celebrate the company's 80th year anniversary.

Here are some of the notable new offerings for 2010. Please note these watches are Japan domestic market only:

Citizen Automatic Caliber 0910, 18K gold model #CTY57-1281 (Retail price: 800,000 JPY or USD $8,681 at today's exchange rates)





Next up, is The Citizen BY0039-00E with the newly updated H611 radio controlled module:

Retail price is 262,500 JPY or USD $2,847 at today's exchange rates



This is the same watch, but the model #BY0030-04E variant that also retails for 262,500 JPY:




More models to follow......