News: Telling time with satellite accuracy

Timepiece manufacturer Citizen has always been pedantic about keeping people on time and now it has gone into orbit to do so.

The decadently futuristic Eco-Drive Satellite Wave is Citizen’s latest limited-edition watch that pulls its time data down from outer space care of 24 orbiting satellites.

The satellites all work on International Atomic Time, the high-precision time standard based on Earth’s equipotential surface, emitting day, date and time signals picked up by the watch.

Parsed down that basically means phenomenally accurate timekeeping anywhere across the globe since the device doesn’t rely on location-based radio waves.

As part of the Eco-Drive series the watch features Citizen’s patented power system that drives the device purely by light energy, making it exceptionally low-maintenance.

Design-wise the timepiece has never heard of restraint, with a spiraling metal motif highlighted by fluorescent green detailing for a wrist that isn’t afraid to stand out.

These watches are strictly limited edition, with only 150 in production worldwide, with two units allocated to New Zealand – get in touch with Citizen Watches if you want to enquire about pricing.

The rest of us will just have to content ourselves with this cool trailer Citizen put together with the creators of the science fiction anime series Appleseed.