Description
Citizen mechanical wristwatch
MADE IN JAPAN
The Citizen Legacy: A Pioneer of Precision
Founded in 1918, Citizen is now one of the largest watch and movement groups in the world. The Japanese brand is known for its highly accurate and reliable Eco-Drive solar-powered watches. The Citizen group owns Bulova, Alpina, Frederique Constant, and Arnold & Son, as well as movement manufacturers Miyota and La Joux-Perret.
About the Eagle 7 Line
The Eagle 7 was Citizen’s workaday automatic of the 1980s and 1990s — the line that did for Citizen roughly what the Seiko 5 did for its rival: a self-winding day-date watch, built in quantity, priced for everyone, and made to be worn rather than admired.
The name comes straight off the dial. Every Eagle 7 carries a small eagle emblem with the numeral 7 set into it, printed above the jewel count at six o’clock. Behind that badge sits Citizen’s caliber 8200, first produced around 1975 and Citizen’s standard automatic by the end of that decade: 21 jewels, 21,600 beats per hour, hand-windable, with the day and date sharing a single window at three. It is one of the longest-lived automatic movements ever built — the same architecture is still sold today under Citizen’s Miyota name.
Citizen dressed the line in a wide range of cases and dials, and the best-known of them is unmistakably borrowed: a fluted bezel over a baton-marker dial with the day and date at three — the Rolex Datejust reinterpreted at a price an ordinary buyer could actually reach. That is close to the idea Citizen was founded on, and it is why the Eagle 7 remains one of the easiest and most rewarding ways into vintage Japanese automatics today.
About This Watch
This Citizen Eagle 7 carries case number 4-R02149 RC and the serial 4111158, which reads as November of a year ending in 4. The caliber 8200A inside it did not reach production until roughly 1975 and the Eagle 7 name belongs to the 1980s onward, so the watch dates to November 1984.
The dial is deep gloss black, with applied polished baton markers and a printed minute track ringed by small luminous dots. “CITIZEN” and “AUTOMATIC” sit under twelve; at six, the line’s eagle emblem with the numeral 7 sits above “21 JEWELS”, and the dial code P-8200-R12061-KY is printed at the very bottom. The day and date share a framed window at three, and the day wheel is bilingual — English on one half, French on the other, so it reads SUN or DIM, MON or LUN, TUE or MAR depending on how it is set.
The case is stainless steel with the wide, faceted lugs of the period and the fully fluted bezel that gives this variant its Datejust-like face. The case back is engraved CITIZEN WATCH CO. / WATER RESIST / STAINLESS / 4-R02149 RC / 4111158 / GN-4W-S.
The movement is Citizen’s caliber 8200A, marked CITIZEN WATCH CO, 8200A, TWENTY-ONE, 21 JEWELS, UNADJUSTED, JAPAN on the rotor. It is an automatic that can also be wound by hand, running at 21,600 beats per hour.
Technical Specifications
- Brand: Citizen
- Line: Eagle 7
- Reference Number: 4-R02149 RC
- Movement: Citizen caliber 8200A, automatic with hand-winding, 21 jewels, 21,600 bph, day-date
- Serial Number: 4111158
- Production Date: November 1984
- Case Material: Stainless steel, fluted bezel
- Case Diameter: Approx. 38 mm (excluding crown)
- Dial: Gloss black with applied baton markers, luminous dots and a bilingual English/French day-date at 3 o’clock
- Crystal: Mineral glass
- Case-back: Stainless steel, engraved CITIZEN WATCH CO. / WATER RESIST / STAINLESS / 4-R02149 RC / 4111158 / GN-4W-S
- Country of Manufacture: Japan
Condition Report
The dial is excellent. The gloss black surface is unmarked, the printing is crisp, and the applied markers and their luminous dots are all present, the lume having aged to a soft cream. The hands are clean and the day-date wheels are bright and correctly aligned in their window. The mineral glass crystal is clear, with no chips.
The stainless steel case shows honest wear for a watch of this age: fine hairlines across the polished flanks, a few deeper marks on the lug edges, and light rubbing along the tips of the bezel flutes. The case back is scratched and swirled from decades against a wrist, but every line of its engraving remains fully legible. Nothing has been over-polished, and the case retains its original faceted shape.
The watch is fitted with a new padded brown leather strap in a crocodile grain, with a plain steel buckle.
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with new Nagata leather strap included*.
(*)Note: Stock bracelets are often shortened by previous owners and may not fit you(see bracelet size in the product images). We match the strap to this watch’s lug width, so there is nothing for you to measure — just pick a padded leather strap for Citizen from the options at the top of the page.
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Why Collectors Want This Watch Today
The Eagle 7 is not a rare watch. Citizen built it in large numbers through the 1980s and 1990s, and examples turn up regularly — that is precisely what it was designed to do. Its appeal is not scarcity but value: for the price of a modern fashion watch you get a genuine Japanese automatic with a movement that has been in production, in one form or another, for fifty years.
The fluted-bezel version is the one most collectors go looking for, because the debt it owes to the Rolex Datejust is so open, and a gloss black dial gives that shape more presence than the pale sunburst dials the line is usually seen with. On a 20 mm strap and at roughly 38 mm across, it wears as an everyday dress watch rather than a period curiosity.
The caliber 8200 is also one of the friendliest vintage movements to live with. Parts are still available, any competent watchmaker knows it, and it winds by hand as well as on the wrist — so this is a vintage automatic you can simply wear.
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About the watch factory
The Spirit of Innovation: The Citizen Legacy
Founded in 1918 with the mission of creating timepieces that are “Citizens” of the world, the Citizen Watch Company has spent over a century redefining the boundaries of horology. From its origins as the Shokosha Watch Research Institute, the brand has remained steadfast in its philosophy: “Better Starts Now.” This belief—that it is always possible to make something better—transformed a local Japanese workshop into a global powerhouse of precision and craft. By controlling the entire manufacturing process in-house, from the individual components to the final assembly, Citizen ensures an uncompromising standard of quality that few manufacturers on earth can match.
What truly sets Citizen apart is its relentless pursuit of pioneering technology paired with environmental consciousness. The brand made history by introducing the world’s first light-powered analogue watch — the Crystron Solar Cell of 1976, the technology Citizen later branded Eco-Drive, which eliminated the need for battery replacements and forever changed the industry’s approach to sustainability. Beyond its eco-friendly milestones, Citizen’s history is decorated with “world firsts,” including the first professional diving watch with an electronic depth sensor and the most accurate satellite-synchronized timekeeping systems. When you wear a Citizen, you aren’t just wearing a watch; you are wearing a piece of history engineered for the future.
Why Choose Citizen?
- In-House Manufacturing: Citizen designs and builds its own movements — its Miyota calibers are among the most widely used in the world.
- Built to Last: Citizen engineered its 1960s–70s calibers to be serviced rather than discarded, which is why so many are still keeping good time today.
- Heritage of Firsts: The first light-powered analogue watch (1976, the technology that became Eco-Drive), the first dive watch with an electronic depth sensor, and satellite-synchronised timekeeping.
