Citizen Eco-Drive POV Swarovski Crystal Watch (Model FD1068-53E)

An officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington DC and a member of the DC FOP State Lodge, photographed with the White House and the flag behind the wrist. This is a first real watch, a Citizen Eco-Drive with a crystal set bezel, and the inaugural wearing was spent in the best possible way. A day with old friends and new ones, talking shop, talking the job, talking watches. Then dinner, where by the submitter's own count there were more watches at the table than wrists to wear them. That is usually how this starts. One watch that means something, one table full of people who get it, and a collection that turns up a year later. What was your first real watch? If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.

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Citizen Eco-Drive, FD1068-53E Eco-Drive is Citizen's light powered movement. A cell under the dial charges from any light source, natural or artificial, and the watch runs without a battery change for the life of the movement. This reference pairs that with a crystal set bezel, gold tone accents, and a multi function dial carrying the day, the date, and a 24 hour register. It is a dress watch, and it is a first real one. MPD, Washington DC The Metropolitan Police Department polices a city that is also the seat of the federal government, so the ordinary work of a large municipal department runs alongside motorcades, demonstrations, and the security footprint of the building in this photograph. The Fraternal Order of Police lodge is the union side of that job. The first outing for this watch was a day spent with other people on the job talking about watches, ending at a dinner table where the watches outnumbered the wrists. Every collection starts somewhere. This one started at the fence line of the most photographed house in America.

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