Quick take: Citizen has given its Skyhawk platform a properly loud anniversary suit. The JY8144-50E is a 5,200-piece worldwide PROMASTER limited edition for 50 years of Eco-Drive, finished in black and light-gold-coloured plating rather than trying to play it safe.
The 45.7mm case is big because this is still a proper Sky series tool watch, not a neat little dress watch pretending to fly. Its black analogue-digital display runs on Citizen’s Calibre U680 Eco-Drive radio-controlled movement. That brings global radio control, world time, a perpetual calendar, a power-reserve indicator, a 1/100-second chronograph that measures to 24 hours, LED lighting and the slide-rule bezel people either love or spend an afternoon learning.
What Citizen actually changed
The anniversary execution is about contrast. Citizen says the gold tone takes its cue from sunrise, while the black dial keeps the whole thing from becoming a novelty piece. You also get sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, luminous hands and indices, plus 20-bar water resistance. Calibre U680 is rated for roughly 3.5 years on a full charge in power-save mode, so this is a watch built to sit ready rather than be babied.
The useful specs
- Reference: JY8144-50E
- Case: 45.7mm × 13.8mm stainless steel with black and light-gold-coloured plating
- Movement: Calibre U680 Eco-Drive radio-controlled ana-digi
- Crystal / water resistance: sapphire with anti-reflective coating / 20 bar
- Edition: 5,200 pieces worldwide
This exact reference is not currently confirmed in WristBear’s catalogue, so this is news rather than a fake “buy now” link. Explore Citizen PROMASTER at WristBear if you want to browse the wider PROMASTER family. What do you guys think? Is the gold-and-black treatment the point, or is the regular Skyhawk still the easier choice?
