I bought it six months ago, I can not wear my other watches when I see this
I have had this watch for a little over a month now and absolutely love it. This is NOT an over-the-top, oversized, crammed full of unnecessary features kind of watch. What this watch IS, is an extremely well made, intuitive to use, supremely accurate watch that is a pleasure to look at and feels perfect on the wrist. It has an understated, classy design that still manages to draw attention and compliments from others. The atomic time-keeping has been flawless and has updated every single night, without fail, since the day I purchased it (I live in the Pacific Northwest USA and have the time zone set to LAX). The movement on this watch is up there with some of the smoothest I have seen and all of the dials are incredibly precise - they line up exactly where they should, when they should. The perpetual calendar is easy to set up and is a 1 time "set and forget" affair. It will take care of everything (including leap years) from there on out. Setting the time zone is as simple as pulling the crown out one click, rotating it to the desired time zone, pressing the crown back in and you are done. Chronograph function is as simple as a press of the top right button to access chrono, another press to start, press again to stop, press the bottom right button once to zero and again to return to exit chrono. Checking battery level (eco-drive charged by any light source) and whether or not the watch received its last radio signal are also a one-button touch deal. If the radio signal indicator shows "NO" to last signal receipt, simply hold down the bottom right button for 2 seconds to manually initiate radio signal search. The slide rule bezel rotation occurs under the glass and although it functions smoothly and adds a touch of class to the watch, the markings are a little on the small side and are defficult to read unless you are sitting perfectly still. Not ideal for in-flight conditions so minus half a star for that. As there is no LED illumination, I would like to have seen a longer lasting, tritium-type hand and hour indicator illumination material. However, this is more of a dress-watch and the roughly 3 hours of illumination it provides is more than adequate. Minus another half star for that. The strap and clasp are quality and are brushed stainless steel. The weight is comfortable, this size looks just right on the wrist and the blue face with yellow accents compliment the watch perfectly and really make it "pop". An all round great watch! I have no regrets and other than the two little things I mentioned, no complaints either. You won't be disappointed with this purchase.
I purchased this watch for myself and I love it. Highly recommended.
I'm actually an aviator and bought this in part to replace the aviators watch that I formerly had, but died after about 22 years of daily use. My previous Citizens watch was also a chronograph, but had the addition of a rotating bezel, making the use of the imprinted numbers that I used as a sort of timer, while in flight easy. This watch comes with E6B functionality. But in reality, it's not very useful. First off the number are very small, and difficult to see in full daylight while stationary. They would be next to impossible to see in flight, especially in the small airplanes that I fly, due to normal turbulence and cockpit vibration. Curiously, the E6B slide rule flight calculator is left handed oriented. In that, you would either need to take the watch off to rotate the rotating E6B slide rule, put the watch on your right arm then rotate the E6B with your left hand, or do some rather interesting cross over using your right hand to rotate the dial with the mechanism on the left side of the watch. The rest of the watch is rather intuitive, but the video on this website for this watch doesn't really apply My watch also for some reason does not have lumens on the hour or minute hands nor on the 12 hour hashes. But..if you are buying this to use as a watch, it's a good one. If you are buying this to actually use as an E6B flight computer, get the JY that looks to have a bezel that can be manually rotated using either hand. I'll be sending this back, if I can. We'll see.