Which Japanese watch brand do you like the most?

The Citizen fan in me feels left out, after so much Seiko love everywhere all around! 😊

I like Seiko most because I was told to like it by people online...

All are great brands. Orient has taken over as the best entry level watches and I love Seiko's older models. Casio is my favourite now because I can't afford the modern Citizens that I want, like the chronomaster and the 0200.

I respect Seiko as a watch brand, but most of the models I get interested have date window or day date windows, which stop me from buying one.

I agree all are great brands. I am Japanese living in Japan, but for analog watches, I prefer Swiss made watch than domestic brands. For digital watches, I like Casio square g-shock the best.

Seiko are the only brand from those I own. Maybe tempted by a higher end Citizen in the future, & G-Shock served me well many years ago.

My choice is Seiko, buy I've come to realize that I own neither a Citizen or an Orient.

I love my Kamasu and considered buying a 1060 for a long time, but overall Seiko produces more watches that appeal to me from divers to dress watches. I don't think one is better, they just have different design languages.

I used to be a Seikoholic. It's Casio G-Shocks for me now.

Orient is owned by seiko so I’d go with seiko.

Citizen. Because of the Eco Drive. If I have to pick one. All are equal to me.

Frankly, I love Citizen, but their strategy is a hot mess.

They have some really lovely pieces, all buried here and there in their catalog with no logic at all. Like, EcoDrive spans anything from $30 watches to some really lovely pieces without good branding distinction. A-T subcollection is criminally under advertised! I have been obsessed with their Tsuki Yomi pieces of late, and I first stumbled upon it when someone right here announced their NWA. And I was like how tf did Citizen fail to let the world know they produce this treasure?

And then, their branding strategy is beyond s**t. The pinnacle of their line, I think, is The Citizen. Yep. Good luck with googling that. Caliber 200 is... both a movement and a watch, because they couldn't be bother with naming them separately, despite the fact that they cost $6k. Various nice lines receive what could only be called pedantic movements (Tsuyosa got Miyota 8000, while series 8 merely got Miyota 9000). Various nice movements (their uber accurate quartz and super thin EcoDrive) never spawn proper lines.

Even now criminally, if you dig into their vintage, goodness, greatness galore. Homer, Leopard, Seven Star (no s, because plural form is for Western fussy), etc are all beautiful watch names allowed to die in obscurity.

In contrast, you can see how Rolex, Omega, and particularly Seiko groom their brands and lines over time. King Seiko, Grand Seiko, Credor, Seiko 5 etc have long lifespan to acquire brand equity. Direct competitor of Grand Seiko back in the day, Chronomaster still exists, i think, but languish in some corner of the catalog.

It's a tragedy, really.

Casio has been my go to since I was a kid, but I've been gravitating towards Citizen for the past while

Tough choice as I am a fan of all of these.

I picked Citizen as across the spectrum they offer me the most - I do agree with the comments above about Citizen have some amazing nuggets/jewels buried (in their current and back catalogues) by a lot of run-of-the-mill stuff.

If “Seiko” includes Grand Seiko then I might have plumped for Seiko as only Grand Seiko competes, and arguably outcompetes the Citizen top end. It would be close but I think Citizen runs solar quartz, automatic and radio controlled movements more widely across the affordable end of their catalogue.

Love my Casios but mostly just as beaters other than the Oceanus, which is my GADA benchmark and the watch I use for setting anything I need to set.

When I hear the brand name Citizen, the only watch which instantly comes to my mind is Promaster EcoDrive Diver’s 200M. I agree Seiko is better at grooming the brands and lines over time.

I think each brand has their specialty that seperates them from eachother:

Seiko: historic divers

Orient: iconic dress pieces

Citizen: best solar movements

Casio: legendary digitals