Citizen Men's BL5295-55E Eco-Drive Perpetual Calendar Black Ion-Plated Chronograph Watch | 
| Brand: Citizen
Category: Watch
List Price: $450.00
Buy New: $256.50
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1592
Band Material: stainless-steel
Bezel Material: black-ion-plated-stainless-steel
Case Diameter: 44
Case Material: black-plated-stainless-steel
Case Thickness: 12.5
Clasp: fold-over-clasp-with-double-push-button-safety
Dial Color: black
Dial Window Material Type: Mineral
Watch Movement Type: japanese-quartz
Water Resistance Depth: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 4.8 x 4.4 x 3.8
chronograph
MPN: BL5295-55E
Model: BL5295-55E
UPC: 132050787980
EAN: 0013205078798
ASIN: B000ZPQS0G
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Caliber E812 Japanese-quartz movement; charges in natural sunlight or indoor light | | • | Max power reserve: 120 - 270 days with Power Save; low charge warning: 5 days; charge time from stop state to max charge: Incandescent Light - 43 hrs, Outdoors, Cloudy (10,000 Lux) - 12 hrs, Outdoors, Sunny (100,000 Lux) - 4 hrs | | • | Durable, hardened non-reflective mineral crystal; case diameter: 44 mm; 1/20 second chronograph measures up to 60 minutes; 12/24 hour time with 24-hour sub dial; dual-time function | | • | Black ion-plated stainless steel case and matching bracelet; black dial; perpetual-calendar function; alarm function; screw-back case; unidirectional rotating bezel; date function at 4 o'clock | | • | Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M) |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Eco-Drive Perpetual Calendar infuses a black dial and bezel with precise functionality. Features include black ion plated stainless steel case and bracelet, one-way rotating elapsed-time bezel, which reveals the hours, minutes, and seconds on luminous hands and markers, date indicator, 12/24 hour time, 1/20 second chronograph which measures up to 60 minutes, dual time, alarm and a superior water resistance of 330 feet (100 meters).
Summary of Features: - Perpetual calendar
- 1/20 second chronograph measures up to 60 minutes
- 12/24 hour time
- Dual time
- Alarm
- Unidirectional rotating elapsed-time bezel
- Non-reflective mineral crystal
- Screw-back case
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 awesome looking watch August 10, 2010
Aragorn (Saint Louis, USA)
so after long and rigorous search, i finally found a watch that caught my eye.
am a normal watch user and not a guy who might use the chronograph a lot.. but the watch looks amazing.
the build is perfect as you would expect from citizen and looks very elegant. i have had a lot of good reactions from my friends already regarding the watch.
the only con i can think of right now is, its a bit on the heavier side and so if you dont like heavy watches you might not like this.
Enjoying the watch. August 19, 2010
glashmania
This is a well made time piece and it looks great to boot. The features are easy to use for a watch packed with so much for such a low price. The alarm tone is low and a bit useless, but I didn't buy the watch for it to wake me up. So far no problems and worth every penny.
Citizen Watch October 3, 2007
Gary R. Elliott (San Jose, Ca.)
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a great watch at a great price and it was delivered faster than I expected.
 More Style than Function May 23, 2010
J. Bryan (GA, United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just to clear up any confusion, regardless of what the picture looks like, this watch is very BLACK.
I bought this watch for looks more than anything else. It is disappointing that the chronograph only runs for 1 hour and then stops. The 24 hour sub dial really is useless. If you don't know if it is AM or PM, you should cut back on your drinking. The local time mode is nice if you travel frequently, but keep the instruction booklet handy as setting up anything on this watch can be confusing. Note: the interactive instructions on Citizen's website for this watch are incorrect, you need to read the instruction booklet if you want to get this thing going properly.
Like I said, I bought this watch for looks more than function, and I think it does look pretty slick, so I'm not going to drop it's score because of a weak feature set.
 Good, could have been much better October 26, 2008
J Yendor (Portland, OR USA)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is a good watch: solar powered, packed with functionality, and the black looks really good. You can read the pros of the watch in reviews of BL5180-57L (which uses the same movement), so I will not repeat them here. Instead, I will share with you my frustrations with the design.
1. Dual-time requires mode switching. There is no way to check time in the other zone with a quick glance; you have to switch modes (see point #2). If only we could make the 24-hour sub-dial display the hour in the second time zone (like Nighthawk) there would be no need for separate TME and L-TM modes! (Yes, this requires an additional motor, and I would have gladly paid for that. See also point #3.)
2. The features are not quickly accessible. You need to switch modes to access different features, and that can take literally minutes waiting for the hands to finish spinning. Minutes to change alarm settings? To see the second time zone? I don't have that kind of patience.
3. Chronograph maxes out at one hour. They could have used the 24-hour sub-dial to indicate chrono hours (requires the same additional motor as #1). It would not be too bad if the chronograph just keep running after rolling back to zero; I can remember which hour I started timing. Instead it stops and switches displayed time to TME (even if it was in L-TM, why?). Oh, and chronograph resets when you switch to either of the time modes (TME or L-TM).
4. Alarm only in TME time. Suppose you travel from US East Coast to Japan. No problem, you use TME for time at home and set L-TM time to local time in Japan (easily done by design). Now you want to wake up at 7am. You cannot set the alarm to 7am; you have to set it to the US East Coast time when it will be 7am in Japan. We use local time for our daily schedule, why should the alarm be different?
I still think that this is a nice watch. But it would be so much better if the designer at Citizen had used more common sense and made better use of the (currently quite useless) 24-hour sub-dial.
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