![]() It is true that the hands are a tad bit on the shorter side, but they are all wide enough and conspicuous enough to be read with ease. Lume is clearly a major part of the appeal here, as the hour markers and “fat” hands are slathered with it. As a sports timepiece, the Citizen Orca case is water resistant to 200 meters and the Promaster Dive is an officially ISO-compliant diver’s watch with all the necessary durability (such as anti-magnetism and anti-shock properties) and legibility. The reason to get one is that you like affordable diver’s watches, in general, and wish to wear one with a particularly fun, bold, and bubbly personality. ![]() While the Citizen Promaster Dive Orca is a legit diver’s tool watch, it doesn’t really have any standout technical features that appreciably separate it from a lot of other diver’s watches in its class (many of those produced by Citizen). If that detail doesn’t make you smile, then you clearly don’t like watches. Fans of the Citizen Orca will probably love the detail on the caseback, which is a full-color painted engraving of a killer whale (orca) on the rear of the case. “Bubble” features on watches were popular in the 1990s and into the early 2000s, one of the most popular of which was the Corum Bubble family. ![]() The bulbous nature of the hour markers, bezel, and even hands is an interesting look and has aged pretty well, actually. While the re-released watches still don’t technically have “Orca” as part of the name (the watches are officially just known as “Promaster Dive” and individually identified by their referenced number with the pictured version being the reference BN0231-01L), Citizen clearly uses the “Orca” term when describing the watch on its website. The Orca name seemed to go with the large circles and curves on the watch case, bezel, and, of course, dial. I recall seeing a lot of Citizen “Orca” watches in the early 2000s among the more popular and funky of the Citizen Eco-Drive dive watches out there. For 2022, Japan’s Citizen watches reintroduces a classic Promaster sports watch from not too long ago.
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