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T. Connelly (USA) –

  

This watch would be perfect if they used a sratchproof sapphire crystal rather than an easily scratched mineral crystal. They put sapphires on their Asian Ti models…. Sapphire can only be scratched by sapphire, Ruby, or Diamond. Mineral can be scratched by almost anything. Mineral is a bit better shatterproof, but the tradeoff is not worth it considering most people scratch their crystals rahter than shatter them. The dial is HUGE and I have to wear it carefully. Having a sapphire would be much less stressful. Put it this way, you vould drag a sapphire crystall watch against concrete and it wouldn’t scratch the crystal. Try that with mineral. BTW the sapphire crystal is NOT that expensive and I have seen them on $300 watches.

That aside, the watch is awesome. The Ecodrive is an awesome technology. This and Seiko’s kinetic is the ONLY quartz I would buy. I couldn’t be bothered with battery changes. I usually stick to mechanical watches, with focus on Swiss and German, but Citizen’s Eco Drive has earned a place in my collection.

The detail is unbelievable, from the dial to the case and bracelet. The Titanium is so light and unlike steel it doesn’t make my wrist smell bad when I sweat. My skin must react stinkily with steel where Titanium is more neutral of a metal. So far the braclet hasn’t scratched either. The Titaniukm carbide coating is so tough that its all the more shame that they didn’t go all out with a scratch proof sapphire crystal. With that this watch would be bulletproof.

Maybe when the majority of the American watch buying public learns the difference between mineral and sapphire and wants to pay a few dollars more for it things will change.

Other than that a great watch. Solid, Heavy, ecodrive, quartz accurate yet no battery changes needed. The chrono seconds hand has a smooth sweep for a quartz. The true seconds hand ticks but its small in a subdial. The large seconds hand is the stopwatch hand and that one moves nicely. That is what convinced me to get this watch. BTW one minor issue for some is that apparently the chronograph part of the movement is not shock proof, so if you were timing something and it got jarred badly it could cause the hands to not realign. The watch has a cleaver “reboot” function but the manual states that sometimes this doesn’t work for the chrono misalignment due to shock. That shocked me. Citizen should fix that. The entire movt should be shockproof. So, we have a great looking sport chrono where the chrono isn’t shockproof and the crystal is easily scratchable…. Fix that, Citizen. I’ll pay more for it, just fix it in these 2100′s.

The night time lume glow is great and a nice blue color. This is a great watch for the price asked. Basically Citizen does this by putting their Japanese technology into a Chinese manufactured good. The manufacture is very good. Citizen must oversee the manufacture in China or Hong Kong. (which also is China)

Citizen’s US customer service is top rated bar none. I have dealt with them and their 5 year warranty is the best in the business. Buy a Citizen with CONFIDENCE. The Swiss and even Seiko can take a lesson from Citizen USA.

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Philip J. Pollina (Long Island, NY USA) –

  

Just received it, immediately struck by the size (large) and the weight (light). I brought it to my jeweler to have the band sized and he liked it so much that he took the model down to order some to sell at his shop. The eco-drive is very cool and the watch is very visible in the dark. Highly recommended.

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