The ATTESA is Citizen’s serious travel line, and the Death Star II (BY1004-50E) keeps the hardware serious. An H874 Eco-Drive movement runs a moonphase it calculates by itself, radio sync holds the time against atomic signals, and a perpetual calendar, world time and a power reserve indicator ride along inside a 41.5mm Super Titanium case coated in black DLC. It’s also the second Death Star Citizen has sold this year.
The Star Wars layer sits one level down. At six o’clock, the moonphase disc carries the Death Star, and as the lunar cycle advances the station rotates through the aperture where the Moon should sit. Production stops at 1,500 pieces worldwide.
Citizen ATTESA Death Star II (BY1004-50E)
41.5mm Super Titanium case with Duratect DLC · H874 Eco-Drive moonphase · Limited to 1,500 pieces worldwide
Price: $1,500
Where to buy: Buy at Citizen
A Death Star under construction, printed across the dial
The dial is a black starfield under anti-reflective sapphire, and the Death Star sits half-built across its right side. Citizen prints that image with a 3D inkjet process, so the unfinished station catches light across its plating the way separate metal panels would. The effect is texture first and a movie reference second, which is the correct order for a watch at this price, and for a license that usually shouts.
Three subdials share the starfield: a 24-hour display at nine, the day of the week up top, the moonphase down low. The date window tucks in at four-thirty, half sunk into the printed station, and one thin red seconds hand sweeps over it all, ticking past every register.
Nothing on the dial is filler. Every register works for a living.
The H874 does the astronomy itself
Citizen’s H874 is light-powered Eco-Drive, so there’s no battery to swap, ever. Its Luna Program works out the moon’s age from the calendar date and drives the phase display on its own, and the setting flips between Northern and Southern Hemisphere views, since the Moon hangs the other way up from the other half of the planet. No app, no crown gymnastics.
Radio reception keeps the calendar and the phase locked together, pulling time signals in the background so the two displays never drift apart. A full charge runs up to two and a half years in power save.
It’s the same lunar hardware Citizen put in last month’s ATTESA Ever Since limited edition. Here it moonlights inside a Star Wars piece.
Black titanium at 41.5 millimeters
The case measures 41.5mm across and 10.8mm thick, cut from Super Titanium under a black Duratect DLC coat. Citizen rates the material 40 percent lighter and five times harder than stainless steel, and the bracelet runs the same finish link for link, closing on a fold-over clasp with push buttons. Duratect is Citizen’s own surface-hardening treatment, and the DLC layer is what gives the case its black finish.
Flip it over and the caseback carries an engraved Death Star II, ringed by the world time city codes. The engraving shows the finished station, superlaser dish and all, a spoiler for the half-built one printed up front. Water resistance runs to 100 meters, so swimming and snorkeling stay on the table.
Citizen backs it with a five-year limited warranty. From across the room it’s simply a black titanium watch, and only the starfield gives the game away. Underneath the theme, this is a travel watch.
Spec sheet
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Model | BY1004-50E, ATTESA Death Star II |
| Movement | H874 Eco-Drive, radio-controlled |
| Case | 41.5mm Super Titanium, Duratect DLC coating |
| Thickness | 10.8mm |
| Crystal | Anti-reflective sapphire |
| Bracelet | Super Titanium with DLC coating, fold-over clasp with push buttons |
| Water resistance | 100 meters |
| Functions | Moonphase, perpetual calendar, day-date, world time, power reserve indicator |
| Production | Limited to 1,500 pieces worldwide |
| Price | $1,500 |
The box gets its own moment
It ships in special Star Wars packaging, a black tin stamped May the Force Be With You around its base. Light side silhouettes cover one face of the outer box, darkness the other.
Who should chase one
Citizen’s Star Wars run this year already put a Death Star on a simpler Eco-Drive, and that one wore the theme right on its sleeve. This ATTESA keeps the hardware serious and buries the fandom a layer down, though the restraint cuts both ways: a buyer who wants the saga visible from across the room will find this one too quiet. The hardware never asks you to care about Star Wars at all.
At $1,500 it costs real ATTESA money, and it returns real ATTESA hardware for the spend. Chase one if you want the travel watch first and the tribute second. If the tribute alone is what you’re after, the cheaper Imperial Battle is the better buy, full stop.
Citizen ATTESA Death Star II (BY1004-50E)
41.5mm Super Titanium case with Duratect DLC · H874 Eco-Drive moonphase · Limited to 1,500 pieces worldwide
Price: $1,500
Where to buy: Buy at Citizen
It landed in Japan on November 5, and Citizen’s US store is the route at $1,500, with band sizing handled at checkout. At 1,500 pieces for the whole planet, the decision window here is short. Collectors are already circling.
