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| Watch Information | |
| Brand Name: | Citizen |
| Model number: | BJ2004-08E |
| Part Number: | BJ2004-08E |
| Model Year: | 2011 |
| Item Shape: | round |
| Dial window material type: | Mineral |
| Display Type: | analog |
| Clasp: | Buckle |
| Case material: | stainless-steel |
| Case diameter: | 42.00 |
| Case Thickness: | 13.00 |
| Band material: | Rubber |
| Band length: | mens |
| Band width: | 20 millimeters |
| Band Color: | black |
| Dial color: | black |
| Bezel material: | two-tone-stainless-steel |
| Bezel Function: | unidirectional |
| Calendar: | Date |
| Special Features: | luminous, water-resistant |
| item-weight: | 16 Ounces |
| Movement: | japanese-quartz |
| Water resistant depth: | 660 Feet |
| Warranty Type: | Contact seller of record |
This watch has a large, round silver stainless steel watch case--which measures 41mm (1.59 inches) wide and 14mm (0.56 inches) deep--that's topped by a unidirectional rotating bezel with black engraved elapsed time markings and gold-tone highlights. The black dial background features three subdials (for the 50-minute chronograph, 24-hour display, and seconds), large luminous dial markers, luminous white-tipped hands (with red seconds hand). It's completed by a comfortable, durable rubber strap. Other features include a date display at 3 o'clock, scratch resistant mineral crystal with anti-reflective coating, and screw-back case, screw-down crown.
This watch is powered by Citizen's unique Eco-Drive, which absorbs sunlight and any artificial light through the crystal and dial to recharge the watch continuously. With regular exposure to light, the Eco-Drive continuously recharges itself for a lifetime of use. This watch's Eco-Drive provides a 60-day power reserve, and it can be recharged with just 2 hours of exposure to light.
Summary of Features:
During the last seventy-five years Citizen has expanded its business throughout the world and has achieved recognition as the global brand. The past twenty-five year period has coincided with the company’s dramatic rise to its current position as the world’s largest watchmaker, a distinction Citizen has held every year since 1986.
Beyond sheer size, Citizen is also recognized as a worldwide leader in advanced technology. From the world’s slimmest LCD watch to the first voice recognition watch and the world’s first professional dive watch with an electronic depth sensor, Citizen’s record of ""world’s firsts"" is unmatched.
More recently, Citizen has staked out a new position as the leader in timekeeping with its Eco-Drives watches that are light powered. With models ranging from dress models to sports models to professional dive watches, Citizen Eco-Drive runs continuously in any kind of natural or artificial light for a lifetime of use. Fueled by light, it never needs a battery.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solid dive watch and fun gadget,
This review is from: Citizen Men's BJ2004-08E Eco-Drive Aqualand Two-Tone Black Rubber Strap Dive Watch (Watch)
This is the second Citizen Eco-Drive watch I have purchased, having been very pleased with my Caliber 2100. I was looking for a nice dive watch with an analogue dial, a rotating bezel, and good luminosity. I have a fondness for mechanical watches, but for sport diving I wanted a cool gadget with a depth guage to use as a back-up, and those only come in electronic watches. Since I already trusted Citizen's workmanship and design, I picked this one out.
The watch has a tough stainless steel case which is large enough to be a good dive watch but not as ridiculously large as some of the ugly watches on the market. The case is not very thin, but because of the design with its beveled case back and bezel ring, it feels thin and it's not a problem putting my hand in my pocket. The two-tone rotating bezel has a solid, snappy feel to it, but is not too tight to turn with dive gloves on. The function buttons should not be pushed under water, but there is no reason to as the depth guage activates automatically when wet and the bezel is external. The brass crown is a strong screw-down device which sticks out a bit far, which is good for grasping but bad for catching on things. The dial is a bit busy, but the minute and hour hands are not too hard to find at a glance, and the luminious hands and markers are very bright and highly visible. Unlike the Caliber 2100, however, the luminous paint is a green color rather than blue, and while it is very bright, it does not stay bright as long. In deep water it's still easy to see and shining a flashlight on it for a few seconds brightens it back up. The date is easy to read, and so is the red multi-function hand, which serves as the depth guage needle when submerged, when dry as a battery charge indicator, and in chrono mode as a stopwatch second hand. The bottom subdial is the small seconds indicator for normal time-telling, and the left-hand subdial is a 24-hr hand. The top subdial is the chronograph minutes dial, which runs to a maximum of 50 minutes. The chronograph function is odd since it's not very useful. To activate the chrono mode you have to hold down the lower function button for a few seconds and then wait for the multifunction hand to wind around to the zero position, and only then can you start the chrono by pushing the upper function button. The chrono only runs for 50 minutes. If you don't start it after a few minutes it unwinds and goes back to normal mode. This means you can't start it quickly and you can't keep it at the ready for very long. Fortunately, this function is not needed for diving but is only an extra feature. The rubber strap is long enough to fit around the wrist of most wet suit arms, although a thick wet suit and gloves together make it difficult. There is a no-decompression limits table on the strap, a sturdy stainless buckle and two stainless keepers. I've found the watch to be very accurate, as expected for an Eco Drive. It's comfortable and fairly good-looking, and the anti-reflective mineral crystal is effective. I put it to the test in deep, murky, ice-cold quarry lake water where I took it to a maximum depth of 75 feet and repeated shallower dives thereafter for 2 days. The depth guage worked as advertised, matching my dive rig guage, and the last dive recorded feature also worked great. The dial was acceptably readable even in the deep murkiness. I've worn it in swimming pool and once I took it into a hot spa before I realized what I was doing, but it didn't seem to harm it, although I don't recommend that kind of abuse for any watch. I am very pleased with this watch. It's not as upscale or fashionable as a Tag Huer or an Omega Seamaster, but it's got a quality high-accuracy Citizen quartz movement, it's light-powered so you don't have to open the watertight case for a battery change, and it's got the depth guage, which is one of the most useful and cool complications a dive watch can have. Even if you already have one of the Swiss luxury divers, this might make a good solid back-up watch for the next dive trip, and it's not bad-looking in the office, either.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
nice watch,
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This review is from: Citizen Men's BJ2004-08E Eco-Drive Aqualand Two-Tone Black Rubber Strap Dive Watch (Watch)
only had it for a short time, but it seems like a great watch. chronograph is only in min/sec increments (no tenths), so if you're looking for that you'll be disappointed. stays at the "LV1" charge-level most of the time, but will sneak up to "LV2" on a sunny day. haven't used the dive function (and don't really plan to). seconds hand is kinda small, but the 24-hr hand is a nice touch. bought this watch to replace my last citizen watch, which i purchased in january 1988 and finally retired it in march 2008, so i hope this one will last as long.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good dive watch, dumb timer, stopwatch, chrono,
This review is from: Citizen Men's BJ2004-08E Eco-Drive Aqualand Two-Tone Black Rubber Strap Dive Watch (Watch)
I really want to like this watch and if I dove a lot I might really like it. I love the Eco part of it. It holds a charge plenty well. It's great to think I don't need to change a battery for a decade (well see)
What I absolutely HATE is that it has a very strange to me at least chronograph (stopwatch, timer) feature. To put it into the "stopwatch" mode you hold down a button and the second hand makes three sweeps of the dial taking about 10 seconds to zero itself and then you can start timing an event. If you don't use it within a few minutes it resets to the other mode. Now if thats not bad enough when you are done say timing a 18 minute event when you push the button to re-zero the second hand must revolve around the face 18 times to re-zero. This takes about four seconds, maybe three for each of the 18 revolutions. It takes waaaayyy to long. It is worthless for timing a sudden event-!!! It should be clearly stated some place in the manual or info about the watch but guess what --- nope, not mentioned anywhere. I have written Citizen with no response. O well, live and learn. I just hope this review helps people if the are looking at this watch. Again, nice watch in every respect except the one mentioned above.
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