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Between 1963 and 1964, Citizen accomplished a memorable feat in the history of mechanical watchmaking. The protagonists are Parawater watches. How? Let's find out together in this new episode!
Sources, imagend and thanks:
- Anthony of Plus9Time: www.plus9time.com for the willingness in sharing photos (Seikosha factory, Citizen catalogs and publications and a 1960 Parawater model) taken during his various trips to Japan.
- Photographer Mitch Martinez (MitchMartinez.com) for the license to use the pocket watch video clips as a background to the first part of the documentary.
- Stephen Neterwood of Sweephand's Vintage Citizen Watch Blog (sweep-hand.org) for various photos and information on the Parawater and the 1964 tests. Visit his blog, especially if you are a Citizen fan! https: // sweep- hand.org/2014/04/24/citizens-1964-demonstrations-of-their-parawater-watches/.
- Some photos of the preparations for the 1964 Trans Oceanic Test were taken from issue 18 of World Wrist Watch Time magazine.
- "The Citizen Guy" of the Vintage Citizen Watches blog. The wonderful world of Vintage Citizen Watches - 1918 to 1978: vintagecitizen.... I thank him for allowing me to access several photographs, especially of one of the very first Parawater Deluxe models he owned. Also for this blog, go and visit it if you don't know it: vintagecitizen....
- Kanako, my translator from Japanese, for the translation work of some 1964 magazines distributed by Citizen to the various Japanese dealers, where a detailed account of the Parawater tests is offered (thanks again to Stephen Neterwood for sharing them with me, given that this is rather rare material).
- The initial video sequence, where a Citizen Jet Automatic appears, is taken from the 1963 film Alone Across the Pacific (you can also find it with the title: My Enemy, The Sea), by the Japanese director Kon Ichikava. The film is inspired by the book, written by Kenichi Horie himself to tell about his journey, Alone on the Pacific (Koduku).
- The photos of Kenichi Horie's feat (the young Kenichi before departure, Kenichi on arrival in California, the Mermaid project and the photos taken by Kenichi during his solo crossing) are taken from the digital version of the book Alone on The Pacific (Koduku): Kenichi Horie, Koduku. Sailing Alone Across the Pacific, translated by Takuichi Ito & Kaoru Ogimi, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company Publishers, 1964 (ISBN e-book: 978-1-4629-1334-3).
- The newspaper article on the discovery of the buoy and the letter in the state of Oregon appeared in the Headlight Herald newspaper on August 5, 1966. It can be consulted and downloaded from the digitized archive of the Neham Valley Historical Society.
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