Citizen Men’s JY0040-59L Eco-Drive Blue Angels Skyhawk A-T Watch
July 11, 2010 | Posted by vvt9 
- Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Caliber U600 Japanese-quartz movement; charges in natural sunlight or indoor light
- Max power reserve: 180 days to 30 Months with Power Save; low charge warning
- Durable, hardened non-reflective mineral crystal; multi-band atomic timekeeping with radio-controlled accuracy (North America, Europe, and Asia); world time in 43 cities; Greenwich Mean Time display; perpetual calendar
- 1/100 second chronograph measures up to 24 hours; 99 minute countdown timer; rotating slide rule bezel; 2 Alarms; use of the Blue Angels name and logo is with the permission, but not endorsement, of the U.S. Navy
- Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)
Amazon.com Product Description
Eco-friendly and powered by light (so you’ll never have to replace a battery), the Eco-Drive Blue Angels Skyhawk A-T watch #JY0040-59L from Citizen is a sleek and sporty dress accessory offering the reliability of digital quartz movement and atomic timekeeping with radio-controlled accuracy. Polished silver-tone hands and markers with luminous accents give a chronograph dial its sophisticated style, while world time for 43 cities, two alarms, and a 99 min… More >>
Citizen Men’s JY0040-59L Eco-Drive Blue Angels Skyhawk A-T Watch
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5 Comments »
The watch is very good and no scratches and its in one piece. I gave as a birthday gift and the person is very happy.
Rating: 5 / 5
Great watch. A lot of features and I still haven’t read about all of them. On the negative size it is a little big.
Rating: 5 / 5
It was a christmas gift for my husband (gadget lover engineer) and he loved it. He keeps telling me to ask him to convert stuff
. I recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I really like the watch. It looks good, though a bit busy. its not too complicated to set, and in the day the watch is pretty easy to read. Not many compliments on it, but I feel comfortable wearing it out and to the office. A couple of things I find to be a minus is the back-lighting. Maybe its my eyes or the orange, but it doesnt seem to light up enough for me to see the numbers clearly. But it lights up enough to eventually illuminate the luminescent hands so you can see that. The other thing is that it should be easier to toggle from the calendar and the time zone display – its a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Also, some of the features on the display seem a bit redundant, like the display on the left just showing the name of the city your in although the display on the right already has that on it. They should use one of the displays to just show the date.
But overall I’m very happy with it and would recommend it wholeheartedly
Rating: 4 / 5
I compared this Blue Angels version with the Black/Orange version of this Skyhawk model and liked the blue/yellow tones much better. So I bought it.
However, Citizen decided to make a change in one of the more important controls between the two variations, the Crown. On the other version, the crown is knurled. Therefore, it’s easier to get a grip on it to pull it out as needed. You need to pull the crown out one stop to change to any of the other modes. If you spend good money for something with all these features, you will figure on using them.
The crown on the Blue Angels version, albeit nice and sleek, is smooth around it’s circumference. When it’s on your wrist, you either need a very long (and curved) fingernail to pull the crown from underneath, or you need to remove it from your wrist first. The only point where you can “catch” the crown to pull it is underneath and at the base of the crown. The top side of the case covers the bevel at the base of the crown.
Sure, you can leave extra links in the band and “maybe” be able to get underneath the crown to use it while wearing it, but the watch will be spinning all around your wrists during the day.
Now, I don’t know if frail fingers would do better operating this. Just roughly gauging the human physique, and proportions of the extremities, only someone with large enough arms/wrists would even feel comfortable wearing a watch this size and weight for any period of time. Therefore, I would expect those who can wear it to have larger diameter fingers compared to the rest of the populace. Those larger fingers just cannot get under the crown very easily to activate it.
I like the watch’s features, but I’m afraid I might have to return it. I will be using the alarms and chronograph quite frequently and having to remove the watch each time I want to do something with it simply will not do. Especially for the price it sells for.
I might like the black/orange version if I give it a chance. That has the knurled knob. Or, I might just trade it in for a Citizen Promaster SST instead.
Rating: 4 / 5