2010年7月27日星期二

Review of the Citizen Attesa ATV53

If the watch's battery ever dies completely, it's even smart enough to automatically calibrate once sufficiently recharged. World time. 43 cities are pre-programmed, and there's room to add one custom city (the time can be set in increments of 15 minutes which can accommodate pretty much any time zone on the planet). DST can be individually toggled for any of the 43 cities, and each city can be hidden if you'd like to remove it from the list (to make scrolling more efficient). And finally, you can swap your home and world time zones by depressing the two buttons on the right simultaneously. This is a great feature for people who frequently travel between the same two cities. Two world time alarms. Each alarm can be set to individual cities, and each alarm sounds a distinct tone. The alarms have a test function so you can try them out without actually having to set them and wait for them to go off. Countdown timer with a maximum time of 99 minutes.Stopwatch with a resolution of 1/100th of a second and a maximum time of 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59.99 seconds. UTC subdial at the 12 o'clock position, 24-hour subdial at the 2 o'clock position, mode subdial at the 6 o'clock position, and battery power subdial at the 10 o'clock position. Internal timing bezel for analog timing. This is an extremely unusual feature typically only found on dive watches.As you might have guessed, I'm a big fan of the Citizen Attesa ATV53-2933, and of Citizen watches in general. Citizen's closest competitor is probably Casio, and while I'm a very big G-Shock fan, I think Citizen has continued to innovate and distinguish itself by producing some extremely impressive timepieces.