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Citizen’s Top 12 Watches Released in 2026 (So Far)

Just over halfway through, its looking like a great year for Citizen.

Six wristwatches including a silver chronograph, black digital Citizen Honda collaboration, green dial Citizen, white diver's watch, black analog watch, and blue chronograph with stainless steel bands.Gear Patrol
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By Brad Lanphear

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Citizen is one of the world’s largest watch manufacturers, covering every category across every price tier. That scale allows the Japanese brand to offer some of the best bargains in the game, with collections such as the Tsuyosa, Promaster Dive and Series 8 offered at prices that are nearly impossible to beat.

Don’t confuse affordability with a lack of quality, because Citizen also makes some of the best dive, dress and sport watches out there. Its vast resources also enable novel, outside-the-box designs like this year’s Honda and FamilyMart collaborations.

Silver metal Citizen wristwatch with black textured dial and gold-tone markers on a wooden surface.
The Tsuyosa Shore in a new black-and-gilt color scheme.
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With dozens of watches already released in 2026, here are the 12 best models that demonstrate Citizen’s mastery and value.

Citizen’s best of 2026, so far

Diver's watch with white dial, black bezel, green rubber strap, and luminous markers and hands.Citizen

Citizen Promaster Dive Perforated Strap

The Promaster Dive, Citizen’s best entry-level aquatic tool watch, gets a new strap option and color scheme. The base blue and black references now come with a color-match rubber perforated strap with a steel pin buckle. Joining the update is a new white dial with an orange seconds hand and black bezel insert, placed on an olive green rubber strap.

Specs

Case Size 41mm
Movement Eco-Drive quartz
Water Resistance 200m
Silver titanium Citizen wristwatch with a textured green dial, date window, and gold emblem at 6 o'clock.Citizen

The Citizen Eco-Drive 50th Anniversary Limited Edition

Citizen pays tribute to 50 years of its light-powered Eco-Drive technology with a special edition of its flagship The Citizen watch. The 40mm Super Titanium watch is powered by the in-house Cal. A060 Eco-Drive movement that’s accurate to within 5 seconds per year and features a hand-dyed green washi paper dial.

Specs

Case Size 40mm
Movement Citizen Cal. A060 high-accuracy quartz
Water Resistance 100m
Gold-tone Citizen wristwatch with textured white dial, gold hour markers, date window, and linked bracelet.Citizen

Citizen Tsuyosa 60 37mm

The two best versions of the Tsuyosa finally come together for the first time in a 37mm case with the Caliber 8310 automatic movement, packing an improved 60-hour power reserve. Unfortunately, it debuts with only one color option: a full gold-tone case and bracelet with a textured white dial. If this is a soft launch of a new line, it will be the best version of the Tsuyosa yet.

Specs

Case Size 37mm
Movement Citizen Caliber 8310 automatic
Water Resistance 50m
Silver Citizen digital-analog watch with dual black dials, temperature display, and Honda logo on the face.The Japanese Factory

Citizen x Honda Ana-Digi Temp 2026 Prelude Limited Edition

Citizen reboots its 1980s-inspired Ana-Digi Temp with a Honda crossover themed to the return of the Prelude. The limited-edition watch features either a panda dial or a blacked-out finish and is functionally the same as its ’80s brethren, but boasts Honda branding and sleeker, more automotive-inspired styling.

Specs

Case Size 32.5mm x 40.6mm
Movement Citizen Cal. 8989 quartz
Water Resistance 50m
Silver Citizen Eco-Drive titanium wristwatch with day-date display and brushed metal bracelet.Citizen

Citizen x Hypebeast Zenshin Three-Hand

For its latest Eco-Drive 50th-anniversary release, Citizen collaborates with Hypebeast for its own 20-year celebration. The hype blog helps transform the watchmaker’s Zenshin integrated titanium sports watch into a monochromatic masterpiece with the “most extensive application of Duratect Platinum” in the watch range so far. The matching silver-tone dial completes the minimalist aesthetic, with a subtle “20” numeral where the 4 should be.

Specs

Case Size 40mm
Movement Eco-Drive quartz
Water Resistance 100m
Stainless steel Citizen Eco-Drive wristwatch with blue dial, digital tide graph, and rotating bezel.Citizen

Citizen Promaster WaveTracker

Citizen’s Promaster series is perhaps best known for its dive watches, but the lineup actually encompasses numerous other categories of adventure-ready watches. Take the latest addition, for example. The WaveTracker blends elements of a dive watch, field watch, driving watch and more. Once you know it was created for yacht racing, that all makes perfect sense. However, those elements also make it a formidable generalist all-around outdoor adventure watch, as well. And since its solar-powered, it’s also incredibly convenient.

Specs

Case Size 42mm
Movement Eco-Drive (Solar)
Water Resistance 200m
Stainless steel Citizen automatic wristwatch with black textured dial, gold-tone hands, and date window.Citizen

Citizen Tsuyosa Shore Limited Edition

Citizen adds a black-and-gilt color scheme to the Tsuyosa Shore, featuring rose-gold-tone plating on the hands and hour markers, along with matching printing on the dash minutes track and bezel track. The grainy-textured black dial has a fumé fade. The 40mm stainless steel case comes on an integrated three-link President-style bracelet. It is a limited edition of 12,000 pieces, available in August.

Specs

Case Size 40mm
Movement Citizen Caliber 8210 automatic
Water Resistance 100m
Silver stainless steel Citizen Eco-Drive wristwatch with a black and blue patterned dial and silver hour markers.Citizen

Citizen Eco-Drive Photon 50th Anniversary

Part of the Eco-Drive 50th Anniversary celebration, the new Photon features a complex dial demonstrating the fascinating behavior of light. The 39mm Super Titanium case has a Duratect coating and a matching integrated tapered H-link bracelet. It is limited to 5,000 pieces and will be available in the fall of 2026.

Specs

Case Size 39mm
Movement Citizen Caliber E036 Eco-Drive quartz
Water Resistance 50m
Silver Citizen Series 8 automatic watch with blue hands and markers and black strap.Citizen

Citizen Series8 890

If you’re more interested in some of the Royal Oak’s more extreme variations, namely the Offshore Diver, then you simply won’t find a better affordable option than Citizen’s dive-ready take on its Series8 integrated sports watch. Featuring an octagonal bezel, a waffle-textured dial with bold, applied maxi-style indices, an integrated rubber strap and a rotating internal bezel operated via a second crown, this Japanese dive watch sure isn’t hiding its design inspiration.

Specs

Case Size 42.6mm
Movement Miyota Cal. 9051 automatic
Water Resistance 200m
Silver stainless steel Citizen Eco-Drive watch with white textured dial and black subdials.Citizen

Citizen Endeavor Chrono

Part of Citizen’s Eco-Drive 50th anniversary collection, the new Endeavor Chrono is a 43mm nautical chronograph with 100m water resistance and a sporty look. The Caliber B620 solar-quartz movement features a typical jumping seconds hand at 6:00, but the chronograph seconds hand has a smooth sweep to measure down to 1/5th of a second, and maxed out at one hour and one minute with a 60-minute totalizer at 9:00. The wavy ocean-inspired dial texture allows light to reach the photovoltaic cells powering the movement.

Specs

Case Size 43mm
Movement Citizen Caliber B620 Eco-Drive quartz
Water Resistance 100m
Black unisex wristwatch with white numerals in clear resealable plastic packaging.FamilyMart

Citizen x FamilyMart Watch

Sold exclusively at the Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart, this barebones quartz watch is tastefully minimalist. Best of all, it sells for 1,817 Japanese yen (approximately $11).

Specs

Case Size 36mm
Movement Citizen Caliber 2035 quartz
Water Resistance 100m
Citizen Eco-Drive GMT watch with blue textured dial, silver case, black fabric strap, and date window at 3 o'clock.Citizen

Citizen Promaster Land GMT Navy

A few weeks ago, Citizen quietly dropped an affordable, user-friendly GMT watch, which quickly turned out to be a sleeper hit. Now, the brand has returned to that release and launched a new version, this time with a navy blue dial, instead of a red one. It still boasts the same styling and functionality — including its reliable Eco-Drive solar-powered movement — but its link bracelet has been swapped for a sportier nylon version. And the price of this already budget-friendly watch has dropped by a respectable $70.

Specs

Case Size 39.5mm
Movement Eco-Drive, solar
Water Resistance 200m
About the Author: Brad Lanphear is an associate editor at Gear Patrol covering watches and style. Before joining the publication, he previously wrote for Heddels and Men’s Health. Now, he’s on a never-ending quest to find the perfect pair of Japanese denim.

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