At only 60% the weight of stainless steel, titanium watches wear extremely comfortably without sacrificing any of the strength of steel. For watches, this makes for an ideal case material. But that was just the start over the past 50 years, Citizen has been at the forefront of innovation in using titanium in watchmaking.Īs a metal, titanium has a number of properties that make it ideally suited for a wide range of applications - it’s incredibly strong, lightweight, non-toxic, and corrosion-resistant. Citizen was the first watch brand to see the potential in titanium, creating the world’s first titanium watch in 1970, the Citizen X-8 Chronometer. Little did he know that in two short centuries, the metal in those sands - later renamed titanium in homage to the Greek deities sired by Uranus and Gaea, a title certainly more befitting its stature - would become instrumental for creating everything from artificial joints to military aircraft to parts for NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover. While strolling the pastoral English countryside of Cornwall in 1791, the amateur geologist Reverend William Gregor happened upon black, magnetic sand that he christened with the innocuous name mannacan to honor his small parish. Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch by advertiser
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