Vintage 1980 Citizen Chronograph Watch Spider Flyback cal 8110 REF. 67-9119

Vintage 1980 Citizen Chronograph Watch Spider Flyback cal 8110 REF. 67-9119

Vintage Citizen Chronograph Spider Flyback cal 8110 REF. 67-9119

Super clean example, running well, keeping good time and all functions operate well.  Watch dates from April 1980

Flyback resets nicely.

Indices re-lumed / painted

Lovely period style aftermarket bracelet that suits the watch really well. 

Case 37.7mm

Lug to Lug 42.8mm

Lug Width 18mm

Thickness 14.1mm

At first glance, it looks like a typical chronograph but the aesthetic and technical details make this watch really stand out. The dial is matte grey and resembles the bowl of a stadium. The internal rotating bezel, graduated in minutes and worked by a signed crown at the 10 o’clock position, plunges steeply from the flat mineral glass to a raised ring featuring a date window, lumed hour markers and a fixed, printed minute track.

We step down once more to the dial’s centre. The subdials at 12 and 6 (a 12-hour totalizer and 30-minute counter, respectively) are sunken into the dial, a darker shade of grey and sunburst. They also follow the curvature of the dial and deepen as they approach the minute track.

The watch’s engine is the Citizen 8110. This is a column wheel, vertical clutch, high beat chronograph movement with handwinding, quickset day and date and fly-back capability – meaning you can simply depress the bottom pusher to instantly restart the stopwatch. This movement does everything the vaunted 6139 from Seiko does and more – but it does it better.