For years now, Romaric Andre, better known as seconde/seconde/, has been collaborating with watch brands of all kinds on creative limited editions that effectively serve as visual puns. He’s applied his unique sense of humor and aesthetic to watches made by H. Moser, Spinnaker, Maen, and many more brands at every conceivable price point. We talked to him about his process and art here. This is all to say, watch enthusiasts have a pretty good understanding of seconde/seconde/ at this point. That’s a good thing, on one level, as it means his name (or his pseudonym, at least) is out there. But it also makes it harder to surprise, which was so much a part of the charm of those early collaborations.
The latest from seconde/seconde/ is about as good a distillation of what he’s all about as I can think of, and represents a real opportunity for enthusiasts who have been waiting for something affordable and representative from the designer to latch onto. The new watch, a collaboration with Citizen, is a limited edition of that brand’s Tsuyosa integrated bracelet sports watch. This is a platform that has proven to be quite popular for Citizen in recent years, offering a way to get into the normally high priced world of integrated bracelet sports watches for a minimal initial investment. I wrote about my own experience with a Tsuyosa here, and stand by my thesis that it’s a great way to get a feel for this type of sports watch.
The new limited edition features a sunray blue fume dial with a pixelated katana inspired minute hand (an early calling card of the seconde/seconde/ design language) that appears to have sliced and diced the applied hour markers as it has made a rotation around the dial. We also see additional slicing marks on the dial. The effect is essentially that the lower half of the hour markers appear rotated slightly clockwise from their still intact upper halves. It’s fun, and a clever way to inject some Japanese samurai culture into the watch in a fairly literal way.
On the caseback, we get a quote from seconde/seconde/ that reads “Being smaller has never stopped Minutes from slicing Hours into pieces,” which adds a more thoughtful thematic layer to the piece. It half obscures the Cal. 8210 movement, which winds automatically and has a power reserve of 42 hours.
The Tsuyosa specs are unchanged from the standard version of the watch. It remains 40mm in stainless steel, and the case height comes in at 11.7mm. The watch is water resistant to 50 meters, and both hands and markers are coated with lume.
Perhaps the most compelling spec of all though is the price. This limited edition retails for $495, which is a very fair price point, in my opinion, for a watch of this style. While I haven’t personally seen this seconde/seconde/ LE, I can vouch for the overall build and finish quality of the standard Tsuyosa. It won’t blow you away under magnification or anything, but for around $500 it’s pretty impressive.
The Citizen x seconde/seconde/ Tsuyosa is a limited edition of 3,600 pieces. Citizen
Zach Kazan
2026-02-20 17:55:00