Citizen Leopard 28800 – Ref. 4-770919TA – August 1972 – High Beat – markantes 70er Design Taucheruhr and roughened by hand

and roughened by hand

Characteristic of this movement is that it has no manual winding and no hacking seconds – a typical construction of many Orient automatic movements of that era

Diese Orient Star Dynamic vereint klassisches Design

– Zifferblatt: Arita-Porzellan

The chevron S-pattern echoes the shape of arrow fletching – in Japan

Citizen Leopard 28800 – Ref. 4-770919TA – August 1972 – High Beat – markantes 70er Design Taucheruhr and roughened by handThis Citizen Leopard 28800 from August 1972 is an excellent example of the technically ambitious, high frequency automatic movements of the early 1970s and at the same time a strong character design piece of this era. The serial number 20806089 allows for clear dating: 2 = 1972 08 = August Historical Context Citizen in the High Beat Race In the early 1970s, Citizen was in direct competition with Seiko particularly in the field of high frequency