Download Citizen Holdings Logo — Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. is the company ‘s main corporate group based in Japan Tokyo , Japan .
The company was founded in 1918 under the name of Shokosha Watch Research Institute, but in 1924 changed its business name to Citizen derived from a model of watch pocket marketed at that time, being finally registered the name on May 28, 1930. It is now one of the largest producers of automatic watches and quartz worldwide.
Is a manufacturer of timers , calculators , PDAs , handheld televisions , Blood Pressure , glucometers , printers and lathes . In 2008 bought the watch company Bulova , famous for having produced the first “electronic watch” wrist the world, the Bulova Accutron .