Tony Hawk-Backed Citizen Gen-2 CZ Smart Watch Now Available for Pre-Order

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Citizen today launched pre-orders for its Tony Hawk-backed second-generation CZ Smart PQ2 smartwatch. 

First unveiled at CES in January, the Wear OS-powered Gen-2 CZ Smart PQ2 features the YouQ wellness app, which Citizen touts as a "wearable self-care advisor" designed to help you optimize your training and recovery. Leveraging research from the NASA Ames Research Center and artificial intelligence models built with IBM Watson, the YouQ app forecasts your cognitive and physical energy levels over the next 24 hours to help you plan your day—and your physical training—around your energy peaks and dips. 

In an interview with PCMag, Hawk said he's been using the Gen-2 CZ Smart PQ2 along with a beta version of the YouQ app for several weeks and is "hooked." The app offers scientifically-backed recommendations for improving your wellness, a feature Citizen calls Power Fixes. It may, for instance, offer nutritional tips or suggest techniques like acupressure or tapping. 

"I wear it when I skate and I've learned that my peak performance is mid-day, so that's when I try to get the most skating in, and then I obsess on all of the wellness feedback I get afterwards," Hawk told PCMag. "When I was younger, I just kinda skated all day—I spent every waking moment that I wasn't at school at the skate park, or at the ramp. Nowadays I've got to plan ahead, I've got more obligations, and I'm just older, so there's a recovery element that I have to consider." 

The famous skateboarder, 54, who spent much of 2022 sidelined due to a broken femur(Opens in a new window), also discussed his mindset heading into next month's X Games Japan 2023, where he will compete(Opens in a new window) in Skateboard Vert Best Trick. Hawk says he's been "on the