Citizen opens first dedicated store in UAE.(Dateline: Dubai ) Citizen Watch Company, a renowned maker of wristwatches, has opened its first dedicated showroom in the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. . The opening of the dedicated showroom, located in the shopping centre Lamcy Plaza in Dubai, comes in line with the company's Middle East expansion and market consolidation strategy, even as the region's watch market maintains steady growth. The company also revealed that the latest development complements its unified shop concept wherein it has been opening flagship stores in key markets around the world to reinforce its status as a truly global brand. "The opening of our first dedicated showroom in the UAE marks a new chapter in our efforts to consolidate our position in the high potential Middle East markets," said Toshio Tokura, senior managing director, Citizen Watch Company. "We have observed that this market is polarized A one-way direction of a signal or the molecules within a material pointing in one direction. , in the sense that there is the mass market that is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. low-end products and the high-end market that can afford to buy expensive products," he added. "Citizen, having performed exceedingly well in the lower segment over the years, is now keen on tapping a niche market A niche market also known as a target market is a focused, targetable portion (subset) of a market sector. By definition, then, a business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers. in between the low and high-end segments." Citizen also marked the opening of the dedicated showroom with the Middle East launch of its global radio controlled Running and directing a remote device by wireless transmission. For decades, miniature model planes and cars have been built with radio controls so they can be run free of wires and cables. The model contains a receiver and the player uses a handheld transmitter to steer it. model (Calibre H610), which is based on the unique Eco-Drive technology it has developed. Eco-Drive watches run exclusively on power produced by light from any source. By applying the mechanism of a solar panel and a charging device, light is converted into energy that ensures normal performance even in deficient light conditions. The Eco-Drive global radio controlled watch is Citizen's first analogue chronograph chronograph /chron·o·graph/ (kron´ah-graf) an instrument for recording small intervals of time. chronograph an instrument for recording small intervals of time. watch capable of receiving standard time by using radio waves Radio waves Electromagnetic energy of the frequency range corresponding to that used in radio communications, usually 10,000 cycles per second to 300 billion cycles per second. from multiple stations. The watch is designed to receive standard time radio-waves from four stations including Europe, USA, Japan (east and west) and China, while for other regions, the user can also use the model as a normal Eco-Drive quartz watch. "Although radio controlled watches have been available in markets such as Europe, Japan and the USA, it had not been introduced in the Middle East since the radio signal is not available in the region," said Tokura. "However, given the increasing number of people from the Middle East travelling to various parts of the world for business and leisure trips, we thought the time was right to launch this global radio controlled watch in this market. Users flying to Japan, China, Europe and the USA can be assured of the most accurate time through the radio wave signals that the watch receives," Tokura added. The Eco-Drive global radio controlled watch also continues to feature Citizen's flight pilot's watch design. For world time, the user can choose from 26 cities and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, Temps Universel Coordonné) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. (Coordinated Universal Time See UTC. (time, standard) Coordinated Universal Time - (UTC, World Time) The standard time common to every place in the world. UTC is derived from International Atomic Time (TAI) by the addition of a whole number of "leap seconds" to synchronise it with Universal Time 1 ) by just turning the dial disk using the crown to switch the city. Other features of the watch include charge level indicator, power reserve indicator and alarm. -- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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