{"product_id":"シチズン-レオパード-citizen-leopard","title":"CITIZEN Leopard Super Beat ref.4-720440-K cal.7211 \/ 1970s Hi-Beat","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s, while Seiko was leading the high-beat race, Citizen produced an answer of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the Leopard Super Beat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFitted with a high-precision movement running at 28,800 vibrations per hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA specification that held down daily rate and positional variation was advanced for its time, and it is still the dependable beat used in many fine Swiss watches today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe model name Leopard means exactly that, and the black leopard mark set on the dial gives off a quiet presence, as though standing for its quickness and its precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is cushion-shaped stainless steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA polished bezel and case produce a smooth, fine lustre which, with the silver sunburst dial, embodies a refined vintage aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe applied indexes each carry a single black line, with two lines at twelve as an accent — details that are not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contrast between black hour and minute hands and an orange seconds hand is exquisite, achieving both legibility and good looks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the current of that era was too fast, and too cruel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe impact of the quartz crisis went beyond anything imagined, arriving as a wave of the new age — more accurate, cheaper, more suited to mass production — and a great many mechanical watches developed in house, the Leopard among them, were swallowed by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet the mark the Leopard left is real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn elegant movement of the hands, a high-beat pulse, and a machine's own pride.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese can no longer be spoken of in the logic of mass production; perhaps the will of craftsmen to answer with engineering was struck here, as a black leopard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo book a visit to the WatchTender Ginza store, please see watchtenderginza.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CITIZEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40321546322049,"sku":"","price":118000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/4313\/6385\/files\/IMG_20250619_152021.jpg?v=1750883857","url":"https:\/\/watchtenderjapan.com\/en\/products\/%e3%82%b7%e3%83%81%e3%82%ba%e3%83%b3-%e3%83%ac%e3%82%aa%e3%83%91%e3%83%bc%e3%83%89-citizen-leopard","provider":"WatchTender","version":"1.0","type":"link"}