Customer Reviews

Citizen Men's JP1040-09E Aqualand Duplex Ana-Digi Dive Watch

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Had a tough time choosing between citizen dive watches, like the stored info so I bought this one. Really easy to use. The auto on in water is a great feature, no more forget to starts. The depth guage seems very acurate, measured it against console depth, was within 2-3 feet. Easy to recall up to last four dives. If you fill four memory slots be sure to record info before you snorkel(if you plan on doing any freediving) it will take a slot once you pass four feet. Very happy with watch, short of dive computer watch this is a great tool and it looks good.

I got this watch to replace my Luminox that aquired a cracked crystal on a dive and flooded. My first impressions were fantastic, but I ran into the problem that if I sweated, or if the humidity in an area were too high, the watch would go into dive mode. End result is that the battery is dead in less than 3 years, AND the watch can only be serviced at an authorzied Citizen service center. If you are looking for a watch to ONLY dive with, this is a great watch. If you are looking for something to dive with and to wear every day, look elsewhere.

I've had this watch for about 4 years. It has performed very well on all dives. I like that it has a very audible depth alarm (my old camera housing was only good to 90ft) and it is much easier to check depth and time than on my suunto cobra attached to my BC. The cobra audibles are not nearly loud enough.

Downside: No backlight. It would really benefit from some aquaglow or something.

This watch is a wonderful, durable backup to your dive computer. Made of titanium, it doesn't suffer from the heavy weight of other dive watches. I absolutely love everything about it, with two exceptions: the placement of the water sensor turns the "dive mode" on if you happen to be sweating; even though the watch is marked to glow in the dark, it is unreadable at night. There's no light and the marking is so poorly designed that you can't make anything out. It is reasonably accurate (about 3 seconds a month).

I got this watch for Christmas (possibly at my strong suggestion). No warning at all in the description that you can not change from Imperial to Metric (can't change from Feet to Meters, or Fahrenheit to Celsius).

Are you kidding me??? Are the people at Citizen totally RETARDED? or do they think that their US clients will never travel outside the US to go diving. Last time I checked: The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, the Mediterranean - pretty much the entire world uses metric.

Every other sports watch I have ever owned easily changed unit between the two. Somehow the design challenged people at Citizen didn't get the memo.

My 1992 Citizen AQUALAND watch died after 18 years of use. Citizen offered a trade in with a 50% discount on their website but with shipping and taxes it was only $1.5 less then Amazon. Also, Citizen was out of stock for ??? months.
The new watch has some great new features and I do enjoy how much lighter the watch is to the my older one. I do admit that I don't like the autostart for the dive mode. Wish it was not so sensitve. Just hope I can get 18 years out of this one. The users that are complaining about the battery life, 3 years is great. I use to send my watch back every 6 months (100.00 each time) in the early 90's but I was doing 300+ dives a year.

Hope this helps you!!

I bought this watch as a Christmas present for my son who is a diver and he has not stopped praising it. The service I got from Amazon was great.

Item arrived very quickly and was very well wrapped up!! The imitation dive bottle that the watch was attached to was a nice touch. Is alot lighter than the older versions (as it is made from titanium) but looks like it can handle the knocks. The dive information is easy to read and starts automatically on entering the water. Highly recommended.

I bought this watch while on a cruise. I bought it not knowing there was two versions... One in feet and the other in meters. Just my luck... I bought it in meters! I was able to exchange it on the next island. That was back in 2000 and I have loved it ever since. I have thought about buying a second as a backup in case this one dies and they stop making the current version. But now they are making Eco models so...

The only bad part is that you MUST send it back every 2-3 years to have the battery replaced. Not a big deal as I also have the scratched crystal replaced too. One time I had the dented bezel ring replaced so it was like getting back a brand new watch.

One problem I encountered and I am not sure who to blame... The very first time I sent the watch in for a new battery... A while after getting it back I discovered I could no longer change the digital hour! So daylight savings time has always been a pain.

I ordered this watch for a friend in Germany who has not yet seen it. He is coming here at the end of August and will pick it up then. It was considerably cheaper here than in Germany. It's great looking and keeps perfect time but then the Citizen brand is always dependable.