My second Blue Angle watch, first one bought by my daughter and wife 27years ago. It finally became OBE. My new one is gorgeous but not as easy to use, I’m sure I’ll learn.
This watch has a lot to recommend. 1. It looks great 2. it's 100% accurate 3. Battery never needs to be replaced 4. Powerful features, including Universal Time, 12- or 24-hour time 5. Calendar with day and date 6. 42 world regions 7. LED lights 8. Looks great 9. Great strap in leather 10. For the price, great value
A nice four watch Citizen collection could be a Promaster Land, Sea, Air and maybe an automatic like the Tsuyosa or Zenshin. For the Air, I was drawn to the idea of a Blue Angels watch. I give this one a 95 out of 100. Any watch with this many complications will have some trade offs in legibility. The high points are the radio control time accuracy with perpetual calendar (set and forget), highly legible analog time, legible slide rule, eco-drive power meter, UTC analog subdial and second city digital option. One trade off is that you can either display the second city, or the date (the date is for UTC). The leather band is very good, and very dark blue. This watch wears well with black, tan, blue, brown, white or grey, so it is highly versatile.
Very high quality, looks amazing and is very well made
When I got the watch I was very happy by the way it was packed, and it arrived in 2 Days. I was very impressed with the packing and shipping. The watch looks excellent and the Blue leather strap seems very high quality. Now for the bad news. This watch is very hard to set up to the current time in your area. I downloaded the Citizen instructions, and they were less than helpful. I went online and looked at some post's that were about setting it up, and I got tires of having to stop the instructions and go over them again. I cannot get the little pointer to line up with the USA part of the dial, so I do not know if it is even getting a signal. I have been keeping it in sunlight so it does have a good charge on it. I purchased this watch for the Atomic Clock function, but wish that Citizen would supply some instructions that would allow you to at least set the local time . Hopefully Citizen can email me some better instructions so I can set the time. Thanks for the help, Calvin Jacobson.
I bought this watch as a gift to my husband, who’s a pilot and he absolutely loved it. It was his dream to have a Citizen watch. It’s very useful for him at work.
Really love this watch. Has no trouble setting itself to the atomic clock radio signal. Very sharp looking, a great size. The strap is more than 3 mm thick--very stout. My only gripe is that my senior citizen eyes have a hard time reading some of the small print on the dial, but that's a "me" problem. I'm sure I'll love it as much as the Skyhawk Blue Angels I purchased in 2002 (that's still ticking).
This is my third A-T movement based watch. It was fascinating, after the second day, how the three watches were all in sync, to the second, with each other. I had been eyeing the Blue Angel Skyhawk for a considerable time. It has exceeded my expectations. I have to admit all the detailed complications are small. If you are a "certain age," you may need "readers" to bring those details into focus. The luminous features on the dial do glow brightly. I will concur with a review about the color of the leather strap on the watch I received. It is extremely dark and can look black under some lighting conditions but, to me, this is more a quibble than a discrepancy. The abbreviated online instruction pdf for setting the watch was very helpful to me for adjusting the watch to my specific time zone (it arrived already setup and running but set to a different time zone) Over all, I am very satisfied with the watch.