All the positive reviews of this nice watch are well deserved.
It is a beautiful combination of blues, a color to which I am partial. Someone had commented that the dial looked more black in some lighting, but it looks blue to me all day. It has a nice presence on the wrist. I have many divers watches - some expensive and others not. This Citizen stands up in aesthetics and quality to many of them. The bezel is strong and rotates with a firm amount of resistance and is easy to grip by its nicely machined scallops. The markers and hands are substantial and attractive and they glow nicely in the dark. The band is a bit stiff as others have mentioned, but it is not at all uncomfortable. It is plenty long. My wrist is small and I will need to cut off about 1/2" so it looks better.
It was not ticking when I took it out of the box, but within a few minutes of exposing it to ambient light, it started up. It has survived a couple of hot tubs and I'm sure it will hold up under more challenging submersions. Let's face it, even most casual divers do not go to the depths that would challenge a quality diver's watch. The screw-down crown gives one confidence, especially if pondering its susceptibility to water intrusion. and its location at 4 o'clock is great because when it slides down on my wrist, a flexed wrist does not bind on the crown.
I now have four sport/divers watches that I will probably never wear again, since I am tired of replacing batteries.
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