Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
Catalogue number 283/3048... Seems like a good price, but I have no idea if they're any good... Anyone?
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Re: Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
To be honest, the list of things i would rather do with £79 is very long!
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Re: Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
Now, now... don't sit on the fence. Tell me what you really feel
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Re: Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
I can't believe Citizen would make any junk, so I would expect it to be a solid watch, although I have no experience with this particular model.
I do however have one of these:
It's a Sailhawk. It is a very neat watch, although I almost never wear it. Mine is the titanium version of it. Eco-drive is a superb technology and if I traveled in multiple timezones frequently, I would definitely wear it a lot.
The way it handles timezones is very cool. You can see in that picture that the 'home/current' time is 10:09 (what the hands show). And you can see NYC is 8:09 (in the digital display). What is cool is that you can use the chrono pushers to rotate through all the timezones the watch knows about and you have configured to display. I think it knows something like 23 timezones, and if you leave the watch at the default, it will rotate through all 23 tzs. But, you can turn any off so that they don't display when you push the chrono pushers. So let's say you operate in 5 tzs, NYC, LON, PAR, TKY, and LA, you could set it to only show those. Now, here's what is really cool. If you push both chrono pushers simultaneously and hold for about 5 seconds, the hands set to the currently viewed digital tz. So if you live in LA and you just flew to NYC, just push one of the pushers until NYC is on the digital display (like in the picture), and press and hold both pushers and the hands will set to NYC time. Very cool. When you get back to LA, push a chrono pusher until the digital display is showing LA, then press and hold both pushers and the hands go back to LA. Very simple. If I traveled between tzs often, this watch would probably be my favorite. The Citizen Navihawks do the same thing, I think.
I do however have one of these:
It's a Sailhawk. It is a very neat watch, although I almost never wear it. Mine is the titanium version of it. Eco-drive is a superb technology and if I traveled in multiple timezones frequently, I would definitely wear it a lot.
The way it handles timezones is very cool. You can see in that picture that the 'home/current' time is 10:09 (what the hands show). And you can see NYC is 8:09 (in the digital display). What is cool is that you can use the chrono pushers to rotate through all the timezones the watch knows about and you have configured to display. I think it knows something like 23 timezones, and if you leave the watch at the default, it will rotate through all 23 tzs. But, you can turn any off so that they don't display when you push the chrono pushers. So let's say you operate in 5 tzs, NYC, LON, PAR, TKY, and LA, you could set it to only show those. Now, here's what is really cool. If you push both chrono pushers simultaneously and hold for about 5 seconds, the hands set to the currently viewed digital tz. So if you live in LA and you just flew to NYC, just push one of the pushers until NYC is on the digital display (like in the picture), and press and hold both pushers and the hands will set to NYC time. Very cool. When you get back to LA, push a chrono pusher until the digital display is showing LA, then press and hold both pushers and the hands go back to LA. Very simple. If I traveled between tzs often, this watch would probably be my favorite. The Citizen Navihawks do the same thing, I think.
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Re: Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
Is it really that hard to either unscrew a crown and change the time, thus meaning you can continue wearing a nice watch instead of one of these monstrosities.
Either that or do some simple adding/subtracting.
Sorry, i've got a stinking cold and am feeling grumpy but thats my opinion.
Either that or do some simple adding/subtracting.
Sorry, i've got a stinking cold and am feeling grumpy but thats my opinion.
If you can read this you are too close to your computer screen....
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Re: Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
It shows! Go to bed with a hot woman, it helps.village wrote:Is it really that hard to either unscrew a crown and change the time, thus meaning you can continue wearing a nice watch instead of one of these monstrosities.
Either that or do some simple adding/subtracting.
Sorry, i've got a stinking cold and am feeling grumpy but thats my opinion.
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Re: Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
Poor Village... I will try to find you some of my special meds...but you must stay in your room with the hot woman untill I find them. Off I go.........I will be back as soon as possible....I never realized this place was so big........it might take longer than I thought....are you gonna be okay till I get back?
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Re: Citizen ECO-Drive Chronograph World Time, £79 @ Argos
Yoda wrote:It shows! Go to bed with a hot woman, it helps.
That's who i caught it from!...and the kids added their own particular strains!
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