Quality wasn’t what was expected.
First off this is a technical marvel for a non-smartwatch. My watch collection includes Rolex Datejust and Omega Seamaster. I stumbled across this Citizen when searching for watches with moon phase functionality. My daily wear watch has been an original swiss made automatic Invicta diver i purchased for $800 twenty years ago. The watch can be a pain if I left it in the drawer for a few days. I’d have to catch it up by resetting it and the date. I’ve decided to use my Citizen as my everyday watch. Once it’s set & synchronized it’s completely carefree. There’s no battery to worry about replacing, charging or rewinding it. It syncs daily in the early hours, but once it’s set it will keep time. I really like the moon phase on the dial. It’s very lightweight as others have pointed out. The positive is it’s light, but it also gives the illusion it’s a cheap watch. I like the watch face being a rendering of a moon. I wish it was a little sharper. I would like the bracelet to be shinier. It almost seems like it’s slightly tarnished. I cleaned the bracelet to be sure it wasn’t. I would also like the crystal dome to be sharper in appearance. But those are cosmetic. I purchased it for its carefree function to use everyday. I’m happy with that most of all. I wouldn’t buy the watch at its original price if $850, but it’s a good value if it’s on sale in the $600 range.
Very nice watch, I love the way it looks. Not a watch guy so I just bought this off a whim. If you don’t know your wrist size just buy a size up if anything. You can always remove links to your size :)
I plan to wear this for a long time. Although it can slip in your arm like every other watch hard to adjust length but not impossible. Overall great watch for the price and beautiful. I would give it 5 if it was perfect but it is an amazing watch give it 4.5 with maybe some improvement to protect the lens of the watch more and adjust it I would be willing to pay more for these