Native name | シチズン時計株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Shichizun Tokei kabushiki gaisha |
Formerly | Shokosha Watch Research Institute (before May 28, 1930) |
Company type | Public (KK) |
TYO: 7762 Nikkei 225 Component | |
Founded | 1918 |
Headquarters | , Japan |
Key people | Toshihiko Sato(businessman) (President and CEO) |
Products | |
Revenue | ¥321.6 billion US$2.93 billion (FY 2018)[1] |
¥22.4 billion US$204.61 million (FY 2018)[1] | |
¥13.3 billion US$121.49 million (FY 2018)[1] | |
Number of employees | 20,882 (2018)[2] |
Website | citizen.co.jp |
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. (シチズン時計株式会社, Shichizun tokei Kabushiki-gaisha) is an electronics company primarily known for its watches and is the core company of a Japanese global corporate group based in Nishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan. In addition to Citizen brand watches, it is the parent of American watch company Bulova, and is also known for manufacturing small electronic devices such as calculators. Beyond watches and electronics, Citizen also manufactures precision CNC machining equipment.[3]