citizens gn-4-s
Riding the irons on BMW T-15 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, "the biggest BMW plant in the world," with a specialty in battery related hazmat incidents. The watch was a graduation gift. "It has seen much with me, but in this photo it accompanied me on a 9/11 stair climb." It gets worn every hour of every shift. "Due to nothing on the watch being absorbent, it works well for me through heat, cold, sweat, and many other unpleasant substances that I wouldn't want soaked into a fabric bracelet." On the wrist, a Citizen. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Citizen, GN-4-S
The code in the submission is not a model name, it is a case code. GN-4-S appears on the caseback of a great many Citizen watches and marks a water resistant case with a screw down back, and it tells the service centre how the case components come apart.
The company behind it traces to 1918, when the Shokosha Watch Research Institute was founded in Tokyo to build Japanese made timepieces. The name Citizen first appeared on a pocket watch in 1924, given by Tokyo mayor Count Shinpei Goto in the hope it would be loved by people everywhere.
The climb
The first 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb was held in Denver on September 11, 2005, started by five Colorado firefighters. Climbers cover 2,200 steps, the 110 stories of the World Trade Center towers, in honor of the 343 FDNY firefighters lost that day. In 2010 the Denver team partnered with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to build a template, and climbs are now held in communities across the country.