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Product Features
Citizen Men's JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch Flight Chronograph Watch Features
- Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Caliber U600 Japanese-quartz movement; charges in natural sunlight or indoor light
- Max power reserve: 180 days to 30 Months with Power Save; low charge warning: 3 days; charge time from stop state to max charge: Incandescent Light - 150 hrs, Outdoors, Cloudy (10,000 Lux) - 60 hrs, Outdoors, Sunny (100,000 Lux) - 20 hrs
- Durable, hardened non-reflective mineral crystal; case diameter: 48 mm; 2 Alarms; 1/100 second chronograph measures up to 24 hours; 99 minute countdown timer; rotating slide rule bezel
- Titanium case; black dial; perpetual-calendar; world time (43 cities) functions; Greenwich Mean Time display; atomic timekeeping with radio-controlled accuracy
- Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)
Product Description
Citizen Men's JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch Flight Chronograph Watch Description
Flight Chronograph Watch
, The new, fully loaded 3rd generation Skyhawk redefines atomic timekeeping with radio controlled accuracy and Eco-Drive technology. Radio signals are received both automatically and on-demand by the fully loaded Skyhawk A-T. Watch features include Ato
Customer Reviews for Flight Chronograph Watch
Review by Jeff for Flight Chronograph Watch – Citizen Men’s JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch
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Even though I’m not a pilot, I’ve always liked the Skyhawk/Navihawk titanium line of Citizen watches. My brother is a commercial pilot and has an older one. He loves it. They are just too cool. But I never liked the fact that they didn’t have a backlight for the LCD displays. Well now they do! It has an amber backlight that works great. This watch is the new titanium version of the much heavier stainless steel JY0000-53E that came out last year.
Of course the weight of this watch is ridiculously light due to the Titanium construction. For such a big watch, I can hardly tell it’s on. I can’t stand a heavy watch bouncing on my arm. And be aware, this is definitely a big watch. But that seems to be the trend now (which I like).
The atomic time function works like a charm. I also like having world time at my fingertips. I have family members that live overseas, so it’s nice to be able to check their local time at a glance.
It’s great knowing I will never have to change batteries with this watch. The solar-powered “Eco-Drive” is an incredible feature that every watch company should have.
The watch has 2 alarms, world time zones (43 cities), solar power, atomic time, a countdown timer, a chronograph, a slide rule, UTC time, a 24 hour clock, ultra-light and nearly indestructable titanium construction, 200 meter waterproof, mineral glass, and it looks outstanding. What more could you want? I think it even does the dishes, bathrooms, and windows. But I haven’t looked up those features yet in the 115 page manual (English portion).
One thing that’s missing is a one-touch feature to bring all hands to the 12 o’clock position to clear the LCD displays during certain times of day. The hands occasionally obscure your attempts to read the LCD’s. Another little gripe is you have to pull out and turn the crown to check the date. And it’ll show you the date of your second time zone only. You have to do a couple more steps to get your home zone date if your second time zone is across the dateline from you. I think there’s a way to set the LCD 2 to show the date all the time, but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. (Correction 4/1/08: I don’t think there is any way you can get LCD 2 to show the date.)
Forget Rolex, Breitling, and Omega. They might look cool and have their high-falutin image, but they have nowhere near the functionality and practicality of this new Citizen. And they all cost about 10 times more. They are also much heavier.
Bottom line: It’s virtually indestructable, ultralight, maintenance and adjustment free. I never have to set the time again nor will I ever have to change a battery or put it in a watch-winder (for automatics). I’m a big fan and proud owner of one of the coolest watches on the planet.
Review by Vic Kanwar for Flight Chronograph Watch – Citizen Men’s JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch
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The GOOD: If you need dual time zone watch this is it. I do deal with India all the time and that is challenge with nearly any other watch. India is 9 1/2 hours yes it is one of the few countries that is a 30 minute offset in time zone and does not change over to DST so then thats 10 1/2 hours just try keeping track of that and things fall apart. There is hardly any watch that will handle a half hour time zone except this one (even the old skyhawk didn’t). This watch does that and more including alarms in different time zones so you can set the alarm in another time zone without doing a major compute for the local time. Two alarms so keep one on the local and the second on the world time if you wish. If you deal with London you get a third time zone the UTC sub dial and you can calculate most of Europe easily from that.
The watch is big and thick and in titanium weighs nothing its nearly as light as my kids Casio
The BAD: Contrast on the digital display is pretty bad.
The back light though present is not the best.
The hands cover the digital display a few times a day you can tilt and read under the hands but forget trying to set any function at 20 past the hour
The UGLY (loses one star for this): If you are going to use the second display for a world time zone there is no way to see the local calendar. Just to see the calendar you have to pull the crown 1 stop twist to change the mode and that will give you the calendar of the world zone So to have calendar functionality for local zone you have to set the world zone as your local zone (you lose an easy way to see the world zone). Simply put this watch can work as a dual zone watch or as a calendar watch not as both.
There are 2 nice press buttons one for the light (nice idea) and the other to indicate if the watch was able to sync with the atomic radio signal, it would have been much better if pressing that button would have flashed the local calendar on the display. Citizen could have easily put the atomic signal as an icon on the display. Citizen really dropped the ball on this one I nearly returned the watch due to the loss of calendar but I had got it during a price drop to $510 (Amazon not another vendor) and that sort of let me forget the day and date. Just keep in mind if you must have calendar and world time (besides UTC London) at the same time this watch does NOT do a good job. It does a great job for each (including perpetual calendar) but not both together
Review by E. Sung for Flight Chronograph Watch – Citizen Men’s JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch
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So I’ve had this watch about a week now and I love it! The build quality is awesome and you can tell the Japanese Workmanship is still going strong.
Looks – I think the watch looks great. It is quite big on the wrist but that it looks good for today’s standards. It is looks like a heavy duty watch that was given to designers to make elegant. If I had to make a car analogy, I’d say it would have the same feel as if Lexus made a heavy duty truck.
Workmanship – The quality is great. The hands align perfectly on the mark. The second hand ticks where the second hand is supposed to tick which I find annoying if it doesn’t. (I’ve seen omegas that don’t even align properly.) The minute hand also moves slightly every time the second hand ticks, the quality is definitely there.
Functions – Calendar, Timer, Chronograph, Alarm 1, Alarm 2, and of course Atomic Time syncronization. There is also a dual time zone function which is very helpful (home time zone and away time zone, you just press a few buttons and it switches them vice versa). The only problem is that if you want to see the current date, it will show the date of the away time zone. This is slightly annoying as to see the current date and time, the zones would need to be set to the same city. The calendar function however would be more helpful to real pilots (which I am not) as they will probably actually land in the away time zone.
Weight – This watch is a good weight, not too heavy, not too light. It is well balanced. This pretty much means that you should expect the non-titanium (i.e. stainless steel) version to be very heavy!
Illuminating hands – at night the illumination is pretty good. There is ample surface area of illumination making it pretty easy to read. The illumination seems to die down pretty quickly however though I haven’t tested about how long it lasts. (The watch hands can illuminate briefly in the daytime when you are out in the sun and then walk into a normal lit room, I don’t mind it personally.)
Sliding Rule Bezel – I like the function and I think it is really useful. If you take the time to learn this old school calculator, it is really neat and handy. It is best for multiplication and division, it doesn’t do addition or subtraction.
Eco Drive – It is hard to tell how well this works, but so far so good.
Overall – I love this watch, it is rugged yet elegant. It also has an extremely impressive set of bells and whistles. The titanium looks good but also makes the watch light enough for wearing all the time without having to think about it. I give it 4.7 stars. Nearly Perfect.
Review by Paul Nevai for Flight Chronograph Watch – Citizen Men’s JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch
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This is my 4th radio controlled watch (3 Casios & 1 Citizen).
THE GOOD: It really is beautiful. It is very-very well made. It synchronizes perfectly both here and in Europe (except for steel-framed buildings). The dials are easy to read, even at night. Even after three years of daily wearing, the watch still looks absolutely great.
THE BAD: The LCD info is way too small, I can’t read it while in motion (I have 20-20 vision with my glasses on). Way too many totally unnecessary and useless features. Too heavy (titanium but huge). Alarm is impossible to hear (my hearing is less than perfect). The watch band can’t be micro-adjusted.
THE UGLY: None
SUMMARY: Great watch, highly recommended.
P.S. Call up Citizen and check if your watch needs a ROM update.
P.P.S. Although it synchronizes well in my home in the US, it failed to synchronize in most hotels and European style apartment buildings I stayed at in the US and in Europe, even if I placed it outside the window (don’t do this unless properly supervised by an experienced adult).
ADDENDUM on August 2, 2010. After 3+ years the crystal got slightly scratched so I took a deep breath… and… went for the replacement by the much talked about sapphire crystal. It took a little over 2 weeks and a little over 100 bucks. It was done by Citizen in Torrance, California. They did an excellent job. To be honest, I can’t tell the difference between the old and the new crystals. Both looked/look great.
Review by C. J. Madson for Flight Chronograph Watch – Citizen Men’s JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch
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Great watch! I bought it from designertimepiece.com. They’re not an authorized reseller, however I felt it was worth the large discount in price . I only paid $460 shipped! The watch is of great construction and very light. The digital displays are a tiny, be prepared to look at your watch if you’re using them. The backlighting is awesome, works great on NVGs. The face is easy to read and the atomic clock feature is great! Just make sure you take off your watch at night; apparently it needs to be motionless to receive the signal. The battery charges quickly in the sun; after an hour or two on the window sill it was already at full charge.
I’ll update after a few months.