The Citizen Tsuyosa is one of the stand out watches from the Japanese brand due to its combination of sporty style, bright colours, reasonable specs and excellent value. Over the past few years they’ve steadily been expanding the collection with the introduction of a small seconds version and smaller 37mm edition. Today they’re continuing to explore the potential of the range with the launch of the Tsuyosa 60, a higher spec, dress watch interpretation.
Structurally, the Tsuyosa 60 is based on the original 40mm design, measuring 40mm x 11.7mm with the crown nestled in at 4 o’clock. The major visual update comes from the bracelet, which has been swapped from a 3-link sporty bracelet to a 5-link dress style bracelet. In Rolex terminology, it’s a Jubilee bracelet with rounded links of varying widths with the centre three rows polished and the outer rows brushed.
On top of that, two of the three Tsuyosa 60 models that are being released introduce gold plating to the collection. The ref. NK0024-54X is a bi-colour edition with yellow gold plated centre bracelet links, crown and matching bezel while the ref. NK0023-57L is full rose gold. The ref. NK0020-55E remains full steel for those who still prefer a sportier look. The dials are black, green or blue depending on the reference.
The addition of gold plating has quite a dramatic effect, really shifting the tone of the collection from that daily wear utility to becoming a watch for special occasions. Thankfully they retain a good level of accessibility, making them a great formal watch for collectors with lower budgets. We haven’t produced an article on ‘best affordable alternatives to the Rolex Datejust’ but you can bet your bottom dollar that this would earn the top spot.
That brings us to the movement inside the Tsuyosa 60 and that’s actually where this sub-collection gets its name from. The power reserve has been upgraded significantly from 40-hours to 60-hours, increasing the operational period by 50%. This change comes courtesy of swapping from the calibre 8210 to the 8310. It makes a big difference on the day to day because you can now put the watch down on Friday evening and it should still be ticking on Monday morning, extending past that golden 48-hour mark.
For pricing, the steel reference is £399 while the two gold plated versions are £429. Considering that the original is £299, that’s really not a huge increase for a new bracelet, additional plating and upgraded movement. Whether you prefer this new dressy style or the original sportiness is entirely a matter of personal taste but I must admit that improved power reserve and the quality of life improvement it represents is hard to turn down.
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Where is accuracy for the watch the most important parameter?
Hello Adrian,
Thanks for your comment. The accuracy for the Citizen 8310 isn’t officially published, however as Citizen owns Miyota and typically use their movements, we can make the assumption that the specs are based on the Miyota 8310 with an accuracy of -20/+40 seconds per day.
Best,
Michael
With bad accuray of 30 sec per day why not spend the money on Ecodrive that will give better than 3 seconds per month. With Ecodrive no headache of battery replacement and no need to wear it for some minimum hours per day as is required for automatic mechanical watches.
If accuracy is the most important factor for you with watches you should be getting a Quartz watch.
Also, if you are looking at automatic watches for any amount of time you would know not to expect great accuracy out of a budget watch with a Mitoya 8000 series movement.
@Michael:
“If accuracy is the most important factor for you with watches you should be getting a Quartz watch.”
Bullshit. There are vast amount of automatic watches that have acceptable (!) accuracies even in that price range.
Loosing half a minute per day is beyond what should be for that price.
They are not using as movements what they could use, instead they create all those fancy dial colors any copy case shapes from other brands.
At the end it is all about them earning money but not you earning a good watch. But they are out there (in the same price range not being quartz) .. just watch out for any 9000 series miyota movements and have acceptable accuracies.