You have the time, date, synchronized 24 hour hand (for AM/PM), date, day of the week, and US timezone indicator. If you forget what month you are in, you have other problems.īy default the dial shows you a number of things. Logically speaking, the date and day of the week is what you really want to know.
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You need the instruction manual to do this, but once it is set, the date will always be correct. Basically, the Perpetual Chrono AT watch takes into consideration the month and leap year while setting the calendar. There is a mention of “perpetual calendar” on the face of the watch, but you’d be forgiven for being confused as a perpetual calendar usually shows more than that.
On the dial you’ll see a date window and day of the week hand as the only calendar system indicators. A good example is the perpetual calendar system. Many of the settings and features aren’t even viewable in the default view. There are indicators for some of the atomic clock radio signal reception features on the flange ring (H,M,L), and what looks like a power reserve indicator as part of the upper right subdial. It isn’t exactly as straight forward as the apparent “start/stop” and “reset” pushers might suggest – but it isn’t a big deal.Īll over the dial are hints of the watch’s intense level of functionality.
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That doesn’t apply to things like the chronograph, that you will still need to learn how to use. That makes this watch more or less “set it and forget it” when it comes to most functions. That means the time and calendar data is reliably accurate for as long as you need.
The good news, like I said, is that once you setup the watch, most of its features are unnecessary to mess with again (assuming the watch remains powered). Not that this is an issue, but people like me tend to be used to getting watches and figuring them out in a few seconds right out of the box. Citizen offers a sizable instruction manual along with tutorial videos on their website, and you will need to reference them to figure out how to use a watch like this. The downside, especially as applied to analog watches that do all this is that the system is inherently complicated to learn and set up. This basically means that once you set it up you could go without ever adjusting it again for the rest of your life. This Citizen Perpetual Chrono AT watch for instance is light powered (using Citizen’s famous Eco-Drive movement), atomic clock controlled, has a perpetual calendar, chronograph, and second time zone indicator… among other functions. They take timepieces to their logical technical limits, and keep pushing the boundaries further and further. Watches like this don’t offer the same type of “haute horology” experience that mechanical watch lovers seek, but are an extremely important flavor of watch in the market. Brands like Citizen, Seiko, and Casio have been offering gadget-lovers watches with heaps of functions for years – functions that most mechanical watches could never dream of. It is watches like this that cause many people to totally overlook mechanical timepieces altogether.
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