Comments on: Citizen Eco-Drive Chrono Time AT Watches

By: Watch This (Citizen Eco-Drive Chrono Time AT Watch) «

Watch This (Citizen Eco-Drive Chrono Time AT Watch) « — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:12:06 +0000

[...] Priced at $650 with a leather strap or $750 with a metal band (the crocodile strap above is a limited edition piece that costs $895) this is the watch I would recommend for anyone who wants a serious timepiece that costs under $1000. You can see all of the features on the diagram above but for under $900 you’re getting a watch that is atomic clock based and picks up radio signals, a perpetual calender, a battery charge indicator (the watch is powered by light by the way) an alarm and much much more. It’s hard to do better than this for under a grand, you could pick up a Tag or a Movado (which I personally hate) but none of them will have the functionality of this beautiful watch. Find out more about here [...]

By: Rojo Camacho

Rojo Camacho — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:23:15 +0000

Ariel and Charles, thanks for the answers regarding the crystal. i did some more checking, seems the US version will be mineral whereas the titanium version available in Australia will have sapphire. i was really hoping that the sapphire would be available here in the US.
thanks again

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:03:45 +0000

Thanks Ariel! I missed the indicators for setting the alarm. The hands probably swing to alarm mode, with the second hand showing ALM, ON, or OFF. I’ve seen this on other watches by Citizen.

Re: crystal – I can confirm that my older AT (the one that came out just before this one) has a mineral, not saphire crystal. I know this due to the chips and scratches on it (I’m rough with my watches). The new one might be different.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:09:32 +0000

Hi Charles,
The literature I got from Citizen clearly mentions that the watch has an alarm. I admittedly did not use the alarm (nor did I look for it when I played with the watch). It is possible (though unlikely that only the limited edition has an alarm). This could be a typo from Citizen, but I was telling it like they told me.
I think it was not a typo though. If you look under the minute hand of the watch you can see “ALM,” plus “ON” and “OFF.” These look like indicators for setting the alarm. So I am betting that the watches do in fact have them.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:04:53 +0000

Hi there,
It is possible that only the limited edition version has a sapphire crystal – this was specifically indicated to me by Citizen, but they were unclear about the standard version. Apologies for the confusion.

By: Rojo Camacho

Rojo Camacho — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Mr. Adams, i really like this watch and am very inclined to purchase one. I have been looking at online shops but have found that most claim that the model BY0000-56E available here in the US has mineral crystal. can you confirm this?

By: Citizen Eco-Drive Chrono Time AT | Definitive Touch

Citizen Eco-Drive Chrono Time AT | Definitive Touch — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:20:27 +0000

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By: BIG CHRONO

BIG CHRONO — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:51:24 +0000

Mr. Adams noted in his text that there is an alarm. However, I do not see any indications
that one exists. Either it was an oversight,
or there just was not a viable way to incor-
porate into the already crowded complication.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:08:31 +0000

I use my slide rule scale constantly! Mostly for conversion – Miles to kilometers, different currency rates, cost of something when it’s given per square foot. It’s especially useful on a watch when you’re travelling to a country with different currency, because you can set the rate once, and (unless it slips) you’ve always got a currency conversion table on your wrist.

I have the last version of the AT. I have to say this one looks even better, because they’ve removed the LCD panels and instead added a rotating ring for the world time. But does this one have an alarm? That would be quite important, since this seems to me like a travel watch, and I never travel without an alarm on my watch…