Citizen Men's Eco-Drive Chronograph Watch with a Black Dial and a Black Leather Strap AT4000-02E

 

I had this watch saved in my wish list for ages, as I couldn’t justify spending nearly 400 on a watch. Having saved a small fortune in petrol whilst working from home I took the plunge and could not be more pleased with it! The watch arrived “dead” but I left it on the window sill and looked online at the setting up process. I was a bit concerned as it seemed a bit tricky, but when I looked at the watch a few hours later – hey presto! It had set itself automatically.
It is a really great looking watch, not too flashy, just very smart.
The radio controlled feature is great, no need to reset, unless travelling abroad but that seems straightforward enough. The best thing though is never needing to bother replacing the battery, which also means the seal on the case doesn’t get opened so it should stay waterproof for ever.
All in all, a lovely watch which seems excellent value for money given the built in tech.

 

This watch is awesome! It’s on its way to me as I write this review. How do I know this watch is so awesome? It’s because I own the titanium version!!! I actually own two of the titanium versions. And I do own other eco-drives. You can’t beat the sapphire crystal for the price, the AT, perpetual calendar, alarm, chronograph and on and on!!!!! Need I say more!!!

Update: Just got my watch and it is AWESOME!!!!
I swapped the band it came with. It’s a GT black leather band from STRAPSCO. The one it came is very nice. I’ll probably switch back if I use the watch for a dressier occasion. I can’t believe it came from the UK market!!! When I opened the case it like came to life. It was set for London time ( so cool ) when I pulled the crown to set it to Los Angeles time it took a second to adjust the time the date and day all on its own. That’s why I love this watch. Iike I mentioned before I own two of titanium versions and looking to purchase the black one too.

 

I know a good watch – own plenty of sub 3k pieces.

Quality is excellent. Functions are great and easy to use. 6 year warranty as standard when registered on line.

It sits well on my wrist (7″) and covers with shirt sleeve. Sapphire crystal as standard – always a necessity, particularly if you wear for everyday use. This is my workhorse and the one I will now go to for use everyday.

The strap is ok but is its weak link. Used to better quality. I will change it for my Hirsch Alligator strap out of personal choice and not necessity.

Amazon price is competitive and with free next day delivery too.

 

Great watch, only issue is the strap, very small and a bit naff

 

beautiful watch. at first I couldn t make it work, I think the batteries were absolutely empty, but after a few days it started working properly

 

Needed a good everyday watch which was to be accurate, stylish and good quality. This watch fits all of these requirements. Very accurate has no problem syncing to the radio signal from Germany from here in Ireland, but just in case of low signal in some countries I visit have ordered the Citizen RCW/SU-3 passive antenna to boost the signal if necessary. This is not available from Amazon but from other sources in Europe. The watch was a great buy and at a good price with Prime delivery. Highly recommended.

 

The Watch looks gorgeous and does everything that the other reviewers have said.

The picture however, is not an accurate one. The inside part of the dial, which looks a bit greyish in the picture, is infact a dark shade of brown.

Keep this in mind before buying the item. Other than that, a smashing watch!

 

A smart, practical watch at an affordable price that’s always accurate – what’s not to like?

 

This is a lovely watch, I bought it for my husbands birthday and he is very pleased with it, We would highly recommend it and as always Amazon are fantastic to order from

 

A previous reviewer stated that his 3 main requirements were: sapphire glass, atomic time keeping and solar powered. He summed it up perfectly.
I admit that a degree of waterproofing is very convenient, leaving it on when you bathe or swim is a useful feature, but 200m water resistance is a bit more than I’ll ever need. On that note however, being able to do several things incredibly well while still looking understated on your wrist is what I found most appealing about this watch.
It is definitely not a “shouty” watch, even the metal bezel is finished in brushed, non-reflective steel. The multifunctional chronograph dials just go about their business without troubling you for attention.
You don’t really need to do anything apart from strap it onto your wrist and go. I expect that at some stage in the future I will sit down with the instructions but, one month into ownership, I’m not sure when that day will come.
It took me quite a while of looking at other models before deciding on this one; I am happy to say I do not regret my choice in any way.

 

I bought this watch after reading the good reviews. I also wanted a quality timepiece at an affordable price and one that didn’t need a constant battery change, having it radio controlled is a huge bonus. The only small criticism I have of this product are the watch hands they look cheap and frail, other than that great.

Glenn Robertson

Baildo

 

If anybody wants a really good watch that tells the time accurately, shows the date, the day of the week, works by radio signal,has a perpetual calendar and has a good leather strap…. What more can you ask of a watch? Have seen this at 300 elsewhere, got it here at 76 less…..Go for it but just watch the price. Since 13th November this watch has changed price twice was 224 up to 250 odd now 292 ,and that’s on Amazon… So be patient…..no longer working. worked for 23 months..Sent back to Citizen now working again. A tip for eco-drive watches let it see the light..

 

Great looking watch, very comfortable, easy to use and keeps great time. I might even look for it in a different colour.

 

Had a bit of money for Christmas, and had had an eye on an Eco Drive watch for a while – put those two things together and the outcome was inevitable! I did a bit of research and decided on this one – glad I did, it does everything I expected and looks good too. The battery technology is obviously impressive, but my favourite feature is the radio time update – geeky, I know, but I love knowing the watch is absolutely accurate at any time.

This is my first chronograph, and if I had one grumble it’s that the dials are quite small and tricky to read, but that’s a minor issue – they do the job. Overall, very pleased!

 

I bought this watch in January 2013. I have been using it for 3 months.

It is a great looking watch, with the following key features:

– 5 timezones with perpetual calendar; note that if your local timezone is not in the predefined list, you can select a custom one (marked as ‘A-TM’) and configure it to your country’s timezone,

– perpetual calendar, which means that the watch knows about the daylight savings and readjust itself accordingly,

– a radio receptor which keeps the time up to date; it corrects itself everyday at 2am (UTC time),

– it is solar powered and has a power level indicator,

– it indicates the date and the day of the week,

– water resistant up to 200 meters,

– chronograph.

I am very satisfied about this watch. It is very classy and elegant item.

 

I purchased this watch from Cirelli Jewelers via Amazon after attempting to purchase from another site that only mentioned they were out of stock after placing my order. For some reason this watch is currently hard to find.

When it arrived, I was expecting it to have a dead battery from sitting in a warehouse somewhere, but was pleasantly surprised when it was set to the correct time and had about half battery. I really like its attractive, yet simple appearance. Although it is on the larger side for watches, it fit my average sized wrist well. The dials are relatively easy to read. It takes a bit of getting used to changing between the different functions, but after a couple days of carrying around the manual I was able to learn. Changing functions isn’t a quick on-the spot thing, it can take a couple of seconds for the hands to sweep around to indicate settings. Unless you are going to be frequently using the chronograph and need to be able to quickly switch back and forth this isn’t an issue.

The perpetual calendar is a really nice feature, with my old watch I could never trust the date around the end/beginning of a month because I would forget to roll over the day. It would have been nice to have a month of year indicator, just for completeness. I think this would have been more useful than the 24 hour clock dial. The chronograph dial is the smallest dial on the watch, and it is a little cramped because it is also used to indicate the day of week and batter level. This makes the increments difficult to read, so it can be hard when timing to precisely read the dial.

The solar charging feature works quite well, it took a couple of days before my battery level went from the 1/2 that it arrived with to full. The battery level has been full ever since with normal daily use.

The main feature that drew me to this specific watch was the radio control feature. Every night the watch attempts to synchronize with a radio signal broadcasted from the atomic clock in Fort Collins Colorado. This ensures that the watch doesn’t drift from the national time standard like even the most accurate watches will over time. An added bonus is that the watch will automatically adjust for daylight savings time – another annoyance I hate dealing with twice a year. Although I haven’t yet experienced a daylight savings transition with this watch, the rest of the radio functionality works great. I am much more aware of time drift in clocks around me. Whenever I check the clock on my GPS unit or computer, it is precisely synced with this watch since these synchronize with satellites and network time servers respectively. However, I also notice many wall clocks, microwaves, alarm clocks etc that do not synchronize can be off by minutes.

I did have to change my habits slightly for this watch. I used to wear my old watch to bed, but I found with this new watch it would often fail to synchronize when worn at night. I now place the watch on an end table in my living room before bed and put it back on in the morning. This may not be necessary if you live closer to Colorado (I am in Wisconsin).

I only wish it could detect my location and forego the timezone setting too.

For accurate, maintenance free, portable time keeping this is a great watch. The only improvement I would want would be to use GPS signals instead of WWVB for time synching and automatic timezone detection but the technology isn’t quite there yet.

 

With all the functions built in to this piece, I have very few complaints about it. It is not too difficult learn the operations of the watch. There is a slight learning curve but it’s really not that bad, I think it makes operating the watch that much more fun.
Nothing is perfect so I really had to dig deep to find these complaints, the only things I can think of are as follows:

Switching functions does take a while. This flaw is inherent to multiple time zone functions, since the hands have to sweep over to the new zone. If you’re switching to somewhere with a 7 hour time difference, well, it’s to be expected so I wouldn’t fault the watch for that.

This issue also comes in with setting the alarm, if the current alarm setting is 6 hours back you’ll have to wait for the hands to sweep all the way over to that time so setting an alarm is not always quick. I think if they would have built the alarm setting function onto the 24 hour sub-dial instead it would have eliminated that issue. Also, the alarm volume is what you’d expect from any analog watch, I personally don’t rely on watch alarms to wake me up in the morning.

And lastly, one thing I could ask for is a unidirectional bezel, though I understand that is usually reserved for divers. I find it more practical than a tachymeter since tachymeters have such a narrow scope of application (i.e. if my speedometer was broken in my car and I need to know my speed on the highway, or if I want to know how many sandwiches I can make in an hour). In my opinion using a unidirectional bezel as a timer is much more practical. Citizen could’ve just added a unidirectional bezel to the outside of the tachymeter. Then it would be the ultimate watch. You can always use the chronograph as a timer but I just think turning a bezel is faster and more functional because I can mark exactly what time I started a task instead of having to remember when I started it.

Overall, this watch has so many functions that it makes up for it’s very few flaws. This watch looks much nicer in person. I also had a little piece of shiny material on one of the subdials on my particular watch, it’s so tiny and doesn’t float around so I’m not worried about it affecting function. I decided not to return it because that little cosmetic flaw kind of makes my particular watch unique if I ever run accross the same watch on somebody else.
Too many positives to list. If you like a watch packed with features, this is the watch for you. Lume is great, still glows when I wake up in the morning. Also, there are plenty of leather or rubber straps available for the 24mm lug size so if you don’t like the straps on this model don’t let that stop you. The current one is skinny for my taste so I ordered wider straps.