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93 of 97 people found the following review helpful: Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Citizen Men's JR3080-51L Eco-Drive Blue Angels Watch (Watch) I purchased this watch because I wanted a solar-powered watch with analog-digital display (plus the usual things that go with a digital watch, i.e. alarms, stopwatch, and countdown timer). The only analog-digital solar watches I found included the Citizen Skyhawk, Citizen Sailhawk (JR4000 and JR4010), Citizen JR0006 (discontinued, but still available on some sites), the Casio atomic WVA430xxx (there are several incarnations, thus the 'x's'), Casio WVA510x, Casio AWS90x, and the Casio PAG60 line (watches that sport barometer, thermometer, and compass functions). The Casios (those I could find in stores) all seemed rather bulky and "plasticky." The discontinued JR0006 had a more primitive power management system and lacked a coordinated analog and digital display, and I didn't need the Sailhawk's yacht racing timer. I went with the Skyhawk in stainless, because I had read that titanium was more prone to surface injuries and I didn't think the weight would be a problem. The watch...Read more 23 of 24 people found the following review helpful: By A Customer I have owned Brietlings (highly recommended if you can afford them) and all manner of other watches over the past 40 years and I must say that the Citizen Skyhawk has everything I need in a relatively inexpensive timepiece. I use every function, from the countdown timer to the stopwatch to the alarm in different time zones. In my trip to Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq this year, not one feature of this watch has failed me...not once.I even use the rotating slide rule to convert statute miles to nautical miles and gallons to pounds of fuel. I higly recommend this watch. And people keep asking me if the watch is a Breitling Navitimer.....a nice additional benefit. 38 of 43 people found the following review helpful: By Gumbeaux13 (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Citizen Men's JR3080-51L Eco-Drive Blue Angels Watch (Watch) My review closely follows "toughcrowd" who wrote an excellent and detailed review.
(...) 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...Read more |