North Beach Electron

Don’t be fooled by the name of this place-you’ve probably passed it a thousand times in search of that perfect little café. The storefront looks like the typical cheesy tourist traps that sell you cameras and phone cards in Chinatown. Now that’s the impression it’ll give you but once you walk inside, put some sunglasses on. This place stores lots of hand blown glass art similar to the ones below:
That’s not what we were there for however. My eye was caught by the display of Citizen Eco-​Drive watches spinning on it’s little platform. One of them looked disturbing similar to my good old standard Swiss Army so I went in for a closer look. The shop keeper was assisting a woman looking for a glass pendant for her daughter and they argued back and forth about price as my boyfriend and I looked at their case for men’s watches (all Citizen by the way).
He does have an impressive array of Citizen though and although he doesn’t bend on price nor accept exchanges (most watch shops won’t after the links have been taken out), he is very thorough with every little detail of maintaining the watch and it’s warranty. All in all, a mildly pleasant experience for my baby and a new watch for him too.