I mean, sure, the Citizen Caliber 0100 is a well-executed, comfortable to wear wristwatch in a titanium case with a rather pointless display case back, a titanium bracelet, and a handsome overall design. If you haven’t figured out by now, this is not a watch review assessing the specs, or the beauty of the case shape, or a description of how it sits on the wrist. These are some examples that commonly come up when the best watches in the world are discussed, and you know what else they have in common? None of them is available for less than a five-figure amount, and yet none of them could beat a high accuracy quartz movement of the Citizen Caliber 0100 or offerings from several other brands when it comes to their primary purpose of keeping the time.īut you know what beats everything, and for a smaller than five-figure price tag? Roger Smith carries forward and redefines the legacy of fine British watchmaking. In America, buyers are spoiled for choice with JN Shapiro offering groundbreaking guilloche dials, and RGM offering serial production in-house tourbillons. I long to own a Credor Eichi II, one of the finest Japanese watches ever made. Philippe Dufour wears a Rolex or a Lange, presumably the former for its reliability and robustness, and the latter for its beauty, attention to detail, and craftsmanship, while he himself is widely considered the greatest living watchmaker today, and his watches are unobtainium of the highest order in terms of price and availability. What determines whether a watch is the best ever made? Materials? Craftsmanship? Technical ingenuity? Design? Complications? Heritage? Something else? I would posit each of these is ultimately extraneous to whether a watch fulfills its primary purpose, and yet we live in a world that values all those attributes. However, to claim it is therefore one of the best watches to have ever been made is sadly an arguable statement of opinion, which is why I will proceed to spill words to belabor the point. Calling it the most accurate wristwatch ever made to not reference an external time signal is to make an objective statement of fact. Similarly, we commonly tell time with hands indicating the hour, minutes and seconds rotating round a graduated dial, to which the digital display is the modern, ubiquitous alternative.īut if a watch is defined by its purpose, and that purpose primarily is to keep the time, then there is simply no watch in the world now, and there never has been, better than the Citizen Caliber 0100. We can keep time in a few different ways, but quartz watchmaking, like the Citizen Caliber 0100, far surpasses everything else in terms of precision and accuracy. What is the purpose of a watch? Most fundamentally it is to keep the time, and to tell the time to state as much is an objective statement of fact (otherwise I don’t know what we’re all doing).
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