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Citizen Promaster

Best Citizen Promaster watches

Promaster is Citizen's professional line: light-powered divers and pilot's watches with five years of warranty. These are the ones worth buying, ranked.

By Sawyer V. · Published

The short answer

The Citizen Promaster Skyhawk A-T scores highest: radio-synchronized, light-powered, sapphire and 200m. For a diver, buy the Promaster BN0200 in Super Titanium; the steel BN0150 and the blue BN0151 are the same watch in steel. The Nighthawk is the one we would skip, for its mineral crystal.

Promaster is the line Citizen builds for professional use — diving and flying — and every model here shares the same core: Eco-Drive light power, 200m and a five-year warranty. The differences are the crystal and the case.

The divers make the line's argument most simply; the Skyhawk makes it most impressively. The Promaster Diver worth-it page and the Promaster vs Prospex comparison go deeper.

On prices: we publish no figure we have not verified today, so every buy button reads "Check price on Amazon". Service prices quoted here are the manufacturers' own published figures.

How we picked

We have not worn these watches. What follows is what we checked instead, on documents you can open yourself — the same criteria, in the same order, on every roundup on this site. The full method is on the methodology page.

  1. 01Power

    Eco-Drive on every model: light-powered, with no battery to change.

  2. 02Water resistance

    200m on every Promaster here.

  3. 03Crystal

    Sapphire on the Skyhawk; mineral on the divers and the Nighthawk.

  4. 04Warranty

    Five years on all, excluding the power cell, case, bracelet and strap.

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Quick picks

Ranked on the Keep Score below — six published specifications, weighted identically on every page. The last row is the one we would not buy.

#WatchBest forKeep ScorePrice
1

Citizen Promaster Skyhawk A-T JY8078-52L

Radio-synchronized, sapphire, 200m, 45mm.

The highest-scoring Promaster8.3/10
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2

Citizen Promaster Diver BN0200-56E

Super Titanium, 200m, 22mm strap.

The Promaster Diver to buy6.8/10
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3

Citizen Promaster Diver BN0150-28E

Steel, 200m, 20mm strap.

The steel Promaster Diver6.8/10
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4

Citizen Promaster Diver BN0151-09L

Identical to the BN0150, with a blue dial.

The blue-dial Promaster Diver6.8/10
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Citizen Promaster Nighthawk BJ7008-51E

200m and a slide rule, under mineral glass.

Skip this one

Not the Promaster to keep6.1/10
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Keep Score is arithmetic, not opinion — six published specifications, weighted the same way on every page. The formula is on our methodology page, so you can re-run it yourself.

01

Citizen Promaster Skyhawk A-T JY8078-52L

Best for: The highest-scoring Promaster

8.3/10

Keep Score

Crystal
2.5/2.5
Serviceability
1.4/2.5
Water resistance
1.5/1.5
Warranty
1.5/1.5
Strap standard
1/1
Cost-to-keep transparency
0.4/1
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Radio-synchronized to 43 cities, with a chronograph, a perpetual calendar and dual time, on light power behind sapphire and rated 200m.

45mm, and a module rather than a movement: when the U680 stops being made, the watch is finished.

It sets itself by radio, runs on light and is rated to 200m behind sapphire — and it is a module, not a movement. When the module stops being made, the watch is finished, however good the case still is.

Manufacturer specifications for the Citizen Promaster Skyhawk A-T JY8078-52L
MovementCitizen U680 Eco-Drive, light-powered, radio-synchronized to 43 cities, chronograph, perpetual calendar, dual time
Power reserveNot published
Case45mm stainless steel
Lug-to-lugNot published
ThicknessNot published
Lug width22mm
Crystalsapphire
Water resistance200m
Warranty5 years

Citizen's five-year limited warranty excludes the power cell, case, bracelet and strap.

Specifications read from Citizen Watch product page, JY8078-52L.

02

Citizen Promaster Diver BN0200-56E

Best for: The Promaster Diver to buy

6.8/10

Keep Score

Crystal
1/2.5
Serviceability
1.4/2.5
Water resistance
1.5/1.5
Warranty
1.5/1.5
Strap standard
1/1
Cost-to-keep transparency
0.4/1
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The Promaster Diver in surface-hardened Super Titanium: 200m, light power and five years of warranty, lighter than the steel version.

Mineral glass, and 44mm across.

Citizen's Super Titanium is surface-hardened, which is the point — plain titanium marks more easily than steel, and this does not. It is the closest thing on this list to a watch you can stop thinking about.

Manufacturer specifications for the Citizen Promaster Diver BN0200-56E
MovementCitizen E168 Eco-Drive, light-powered
Power reserveNot published
Case44mm super titanium
Lug-to-lugNot published
ThicknessNot published
Lug width22mm
Crystalmineral
Water resistance200m
Warranty5 years

Citizen's five-year limited warranty excludes the power cell, case, bracelet and strap.

Specifications read from Citizen Watch product page, BN0200-56E.

03

Citizen Promaster Diver BN0150-28E

Best for: The steel Promaster Diver

6.8/10

Keep Score

Crystal
1/2.5
Serviceability
1.4/2.5
Water resistance
1.5/1.5
Warranty
1.5/1.5
Strap standard
1/1
Cost-to-keep transparency
0.4/1
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The steel Promaster Diver, which Citizen describes as an ISO-compliant Promaster Professional Diver, on a 20mm strap.

Mineral glass.

The strongest argument for this watch is the one Citizen makes on its own page: nothing to replace, five years of cover. The argument against it is the mineral crystal, which will scratch where sapphire would not.

Manufacturer specifications for the Citizen Promaster Diver BN0150-28E
MovementCitizen E168 Eco-Drive, light-powered
Power reserveNot published
Case44mm stainless steel
Lug-to-lugNot published
ThicknessNot published
Lug width20mm
Crystalmineral
Water resistance200m
Warranty5 years

Citizen's five-year limited warranty excludes the power cell, case, bracelet and strap.

Specifications read from Citizen Watch product page, BN0150-28E.

04

Citizen Promaster Diver BN0151-09L

Best for: The blue-dial Promaster Diver

6.8/10

Keep Score

Crystal
1/2.5
Serviceability
1.4/2.5
Water resistance
1.5/1.5
Warranty
1.5/1.5
Strap standard
1/1
Cost-to-keep transparency
0.4/1
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Identical to the BN0150 in every specification Citizen publishes. Choose on the dial.

Mineral glass, and 44mm across.

Identical to the BN0150 in every specification Citizen publishes. Choose on the dial, and on nothing else.

Manufacturer specifications for the Citizen Promaster Diver BN0151-09L
MovementCitizen E168 Eco-Drive, light-powered
Power reserveNot published
Case44mm stainless steel
Lug-to-lugNot published
ThicknessNot published
Lug width20mm
Crystalmineral
Water resistance200m
Warranty5 years

Citizen's five-year limited warranty excludes the power cell, case, bracelet and strap.

Specifications read from Citizen Watch product page, BN0151-09L.

Skip this one

Citizen Promaster Nighthawk BJ7008-51E

Best for: Not the Promaster to keep

6.1/10

Keep Score

Crystal
1/2.5
Serviceability
1.4/2.5
Water resistance
1.5/1.5
Warranty
1.5/1.5
Strap standard
0.3/1
Cost-to-keep transparency
0.4/1
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The Nighthawk is the Promaster pilot's watch many people know: a slide-rule bezel, dual time, 200m and five years of warranty.

It has a mineral crystal on a 42mm dial, and Citizen does not publish its lug width. For a Promaster pilot's watch behind sapphire, the Skyhawk above is the one.

200m, five years of cover and a second time zone from a watch you never wind, service or open. The mineral crystal is the cost, and on a 42mm slab of glass it is a cost you will eventually see.

Manufacturer specifications for the Citizen Promaster Nighthawk BJ7008-51E
MovementCitizen B877 Eco-Drive, light-powered, with dual time and slide-rule bezel
Power reserveNot published
Case42mm stainless steel
Lug-to-lugNot published
ThicknessNot published
Lug widthNot published
Crystalmineral
Water resistance200m
Warranty5 years

Citizen's five-year limited warranty excludes the power cell, case, bracelet and strap.

Specifications read from Citizen Watch product page, BJ7008-51E.

Compared

Read from Citizen's own product pages, linked on the entries above.
WatchCaseCrystalWaterLug width
Promaster Skyhawk A-T JY8078-52L45mm steelSapphire200m22mm
Promaster Diver BN0200-56E44mm Super TitaniumMineral200m22mm
Promaster Diver BN0150-28E44mm steelMineral200m20mm
Promaster Diver BN0151-09L44mm steelMineral200m20mm
Promaster Nighthawk BJ7008-51E (skip)42mm steelMineral200mNot published
Read from Citizen's own product pages, linked on the entries above.

The Promaster trade

Every Promaster here is a module rather than a movement: replaced when it fails, and dependent on Citizen for parts. In exchange you get light power, 200m and five years of warranty — some of the lowest-maintenance professional watches on this site. The automatic vs solar comparison sets out the trade.

Questions people actually ask

What is the best Citizen Promaster?

The Skyhawk A-T on specification — sapphire, 200m and radio-synchronized time. For a diver, the Super Titanium BN0200.

Are Citizen Promaster watches good?

They are among the lowest-maintenance watches on this site: light-powered, 200m and covered for five years. The divers use mineral crystals.

Is the Promaster Diver ISO compliant?

Citizen describes the BN0150 as an ISO-compliant Promaster Professional Diver on its product page.

BN0150 or BN0151?

They are identical in every published specification; choose on the dial color.

Sources

Every specification and figure on this page came from one of these documents. Where a manufacturer does not publish something, the page says so rather than filling the gap.

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