Citizen Watches Men’s BN0151-09L Promaster Professional Diver

Valoraciones

1. K. Payne – enero 1, 1970

   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.

2. D L – enero 1, 1970

   Actually fell in love with this time piece in a gift shop on a cruise ship. I didn’t have much opportunity to «research» the watch and by the time we disembarked, I was wearing her proudly. What’s not to love about BN0151-09L?!? This was my first Eco-Drive and so far I’m ecstatic. No battery changing! Woo Hoo!Have had this watch a year now. Build quality is solid. It’s not the lightest watch I own and viewed from the side, it’s «thicker» than your normal watch. Then again, it’s supposed to be a Diver’s watch up to 200m. I love the «matte» finish so it’s not too bright and not too reflective. The blue rubber strap takes some getting used to, but if you do a lot of diving, it’s great. It’s got plenty of length to wrap around a wetsuit and certainly will fit a large wrist. As mentioned it has a cool little decompression dive table printed on the band. I switched it out for a more traditional metal band. My only complaint is that the curved end of the my metal band doesn’t reach snugly up to the watch (see pic), but that’s not the fault of the watch.I love the large non-numerical dots. The orange lined minute hand is unique and stands out making it easy to quickly read the time against the beautiful blue face. The second hand hits every second hash mark spot on! It keeps excellent time and is not fast nor slow. My rotating bezel is *tight* and not the easiest to rotate if you don’t hold onto the ridged areas, but that’s ok because it tells me that the bezel is well designed and will last. Love the luminescence! Something that I’ve read and confirmed… the hands and non-numbers glow «blue» but the dot on the bezel is a light green (see pic). A nice touch by Citizen to make that a different color.As others have mentioned the date window could be a little bigger but I thought it was a very cool to line up the crown and the date window and have them both at the 4 o’clock position instead of the typical 3 o’clock. The crown also has to «unscrew» before using… a sign of a real diver’s watch 🙂 You will be hard pressed to find similar build quality and luxury at this price point. I look forward to enjoying this timepiece for many many years. What else is there to say?!? Get it! You will love it!

3. Albert Suelzle – enero 1, 1970

   The one star is for Amazon on this one. It’s not the watche’s fault. The watch is beautiful.I thought I had ordered a NEW watch. But it looked restocked to me. Instruction papers were missing. Sent it back. A little more than a week later I thought I’d give it a another try. And guess what? Pappers and the plastic cover for the watch were missing on this one. Another restock? Sent that one back. Won’t order that watch again. To bad.