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In 1959, Citizen launched the Parawater – Japan's first fully-waterproof wristwatch. It became the forerunner to Citizen's range of dive watches, subsequently (1982) called the Promaster Marine range. Also in 1982, Citizen launched the 1300m Professional Diver's watch – the world's most pressure-resistant wristwatch at the time.<ref>https://www.citizenwatch-global.com/promaster/technology_history/</ref>
But it was perhaps the Fugu that became Citizen's most iconic diver. With its launch in 1989, fans nicknamed it the [[Fugu]], after the Japanese pufferfish.<ref>https://www.citizen.com.hk/html/en/news/what-s-news/citizen-asia-limited-promaster-ny011-series.html</ref> The watch's bezel has alternating smooth and serrated edges to provide a positive grip in wet conditions, with the shape inspired by the pufferfish. Citizen eventually adopted Fugu as the watch's official name, even engraving some models' casebacks with a pufferfish logo. And in 1993, the [[Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei]] adopted the
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