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(68 customer reviews) 75 of 77 people found the following review helpful
For geeks with style,
March 3, 2005 E. Nam (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is for the Citizen Skyhawk BlueAngel edition titanium watch, however, most of the comments are relevant to the entire Skyhawk series. I received this watch (Mar 2) days ago. So far I am very happy with it. I had a hard time deciding between the Blue Angel and the "regular" Skyhawk; I had an even harder time deciding between titanium and non-titanium. Below is a list of pros and cons of the watch(es) roughly in order of decreasing importance to me. However, I do want to make clear that I do love the watch, the pros WAY outweigh the cons.
Pro:
- Watch looks beautiful, though some may find it "too busy".
- Watch never needs batteries (solar charging) and even has power saving modes, which is fascinating for a techno-enviro-energy saving guy like me.
- I've always been a sucker for dual display (analog/digital) watches. As such, this watch has MANY useful functions: stopwatch (split/stop), countdown timer (1-99 minutes), many time...Read more
90 of 101 people found the following review helpful
Opportunities Wasted,
June 22, 2005 Gumbeaux13 (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Citizen Men's Eco-Drive Blue Angels Skyhawk Watch #JR3090-58L (Watch)
My review closely follows "toughcrowd" who wrote an excellent and detailed review.
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Remember that the bezel is bi-directional in keeping with the concept of the watch. There's no ratchet/spring device to keep it from moving around which for me was aggravating.
The background UTC and 24 hour subdials are ok with me but should have been designed better to allow for larger time markers. Given the choice I'd rather have larger markers than the two subdials which are not a necessity.
The digital clock/date window is too small and has black LCD figures on a gray background. It needs to be larger and the background color more contrasting with the digits for better visibility. It's hard to read the digital time or date even in daylight. The digital clock and date are useless at night due to no background light.
The time markers and hands do have illuminous coatings. But the hands and markers are so small that they are too dim at...Read more
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
World Time/Date Features Standout,
March 19, 2006 dennis wentraub (schenectady, new york USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Citizen Men's Eco-Drive Blue Angels Skyhawk Watch #JR3090-58L (Watch)
This watch is a pit bull. Not the prettiest of 'faces' perhaps, but it's tough and densely weighted with features. It shows attitude. A continual solar charge stokes a battery that will run for years. Need to know the time or date in 30 separately named locations - Dubai or Denver, Moscow or Mexico City? No problem. Just push and scroll with the button above the crown. The cities appear on a digital display in the lower left between the 7 and 8 hour positions and the time for each on a corresponding panel display on the lower right. If Karachi or Bejing is your second city of choice it will always be there to see. Switching the two time displays - the smaller, digital time to the larger, primary, analog display - is effortless, accomplished with the push of two buttons simultaneously. If your location of choice is not designated you can customize that one location (For example, I was easily able to program "SXM" and the time for St. Martin F.W.I.).
The digital window...Read more
