Sell Citizen Men’s Eco-Drive Promaster Carbon Chronograph Stainless Steel Watch #JY0075-54E – Review
Citizen Gents AT Skyhawk Watch Stainless Steel case and bracelet. Citizen eco drive watch so it never needs a battery. Product Description : – 3rd Generation Skyhawk Atomic Flight Chronograph. – Atomic time keeping. Time is automatically set (or on demand) by the atomic signal – World Time with 43 cities. – 2 World time Alarms – 1/100 Second Chronograph Measures up to 24 Hours – 99 Minute Countdown Timer – Perpetual calendar – Water resistant 200m – Stainless steel case and bracelet – Date Also
List Price: £469.00
flawed masterpiece,
I owned a previous citizen ecodrive perpetual which I loved but decided to upgrade to this model for it’s radio controlled accuracy. Good news is watch looks great and has many fine features like showing two time zones simultaneously and quick way to switch main time display between the two zones. Bad news is on my watch radio updates totally fail wherever you are yet my £30.00 casio works fine and has never failed to receive an update once in 3 years. I will take this back and update my review should this prove to be a one off. Other flaws are you could happily lose the 24 hour and utc display and leave space to make remaining digital displays easier to read and introduce a display for day date and month, which you can’t view at the same time as the second world time display. Also manual time changing as required during absence of radio signal is very awkward unlike non radio controlled citizens. All that aside I hope with repair/replacement that I will review my stance and rate this watch as well as it looks. The features if all available are the bees knees and citizen as ever are the best watchmaker in the world. I have a soft spot for mechanical watches but even the legendary watchmaker john harrison if alive today would want a citizen for sheer accuracy and functionality, although it is less beautiful than his creations.
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|The last watch you’ll ever need!,
This watch is absolutely beautiful! (and the pictures really don’t do it justice)
I don’t plan on ever needing to buy another watch ever again, so I didn’t mind paying a little more than most people would spend on a time piece.
The Promaster Carbon does not need batteries, the strap is stainless steel and very well made (with the additional peace of mind of a security clasp) and is accurate due to the atomic time signal (which comes from Germany if you’re in Europe)
When the clocks recently adjusted from Winter to Summer I didn’t even have to think about winding it forward as I’ve had to do with every other watch I’d previously owned. This had done it for me while I slept!
It actually will check the Atomic signal upto 3 times a day (but only if you miss the first signal at 2am) you can also set it to manually collect the signal at any time.
It’s not a light watch, but when I chose this it was between this and the Skyhawk AT Titanium, but the Skyhawk just felt a little “Cheep” as there was no weight to it. The Promaster uses the same mechanism as the Skyhawk series, but without the complicated Sliderule which most people would not use anyway.
The face of the Promaster Carbon is a little less “Busy” than the Skyhawk’s as well, and in the end this was what lead me to going for this over them.
I’m very pleased with my purchase.
Whichever Citizen AT series Ecodrive watch you go for, you are unlikely to be disappointed with it.
Just put it on and never worry that you don’t have the exact right time ever again!
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|Great watch, great price!!,
Decided to treat myself to a new watch and was stuck between Seiko and Citizen. Took a trip into town and tried a fair few different models on. I suggest you do the same to see how they look on your arm. Nothing worse than a watch thats too big or too small!
Citizen have the Eco Drive system which uses light to charge the watch and Seiko have the Kinetic system, which uses movement. Just a handy feature really as changing watch batteries maybe only happens once a year. I preferred the look of the Eco Drive range over the Kinetic range.
The watch automatically updates every night at 2,3 or 4am using the Atomic Clock. Nice touch!
I like big watches, but this still retains class without going down the lines of Premiership Footballler or rapper bling. The face is fairly “busy” but not too cluttered. There are 2 digital displays and 4 small dials behind the main hour, min and sec hands.
One of the reasons i’ve knocked it down a star is because in the digital display you can show time or date (plus various other functions). I usually show the date in normal use. Now at night, when the glow of the photoluminescent has gone and you press the light button, the digital display lights up and shows the date, not the time.
However, this is only a small flaw as the photoluminescent is very bright and lasts a good few hours. If it bothers you that much you can set the digital display to “time” before bed. Or as its pretty easy to do, do it when you wake up in the night.
Has far more functions than i’m ever going to use and the manual is huge! However, don’t let this put you off, as you can take the watch out of the box, let it auto update (or manually force the update)and put it straight on your wrist knowing that the light will charge it as you wear it. You never need to open the manual!
I would choose the same watch again if I had the choice. Looks smart enough to be a dress watch, whilst still being rugged enough to wear everyday and having enough functions to keep you fiddling for hours!
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