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120 of 125 persons found the following review helpful.
Eco-Friendly Watch That Calculates Fuel Consumption, Speed, Arrival time etc…,
By Olaf Johnson
Sweet watch, I’ve been wearing mine for 4 months.
I’m an Environmental Engineering Student and I likewise presently own an Omega Speedmaster ($2100 graduation gift long ago) and a Titanium Pro-Trek Casio Triple Sensor Watch (Compass, Altimeter & Temperature $295.00) that I applied for my former occupation as an outdoors wilderness instructor.
Both those watches are extreme (the Casio being too rugged, huge and bulky the Omega being very freaking expensive) for each day use and wanted something that suitable my keen personality, short budget and progressed taste.
I never liked anything in terms of jewelry or watches from division stores or malls, but when I walked into MACY’s for the duration of Christmas buying goods last december at the local mall I saw these Eco-Drive watches for the introductory time.
It has always been my opinion that Citizen makes very old fashioned timepieces, yet the Nighthawk Eco-Drive is very dissimilar and far more classy than any other Citizen watch on the shelf. Some of the other newer Eco-Drive watches likewise look edgy and fresher. But the nighthawk captures a boldness with it’s appearancethat is very timeless. Needless to say, I tried it on and was sold.
The features are amazing, apart from all the other “timekeeping-based and solar powered-based features you may read regarding everyplace else on the internet, the Nighthawk also has a multi-functional Slide Rule. This is not in truth praised or brought up anyplace else so I will tell you what it is, what it does and why it makes owning this watch very cool!
With the slide rule you may calculate your car’s fuel consumption, intermediate speed/velocity and the time you will arrive at your destination, you may also multiply and divide numbers, calculate ratio’s into percentages, integers and decimals, covert liters to gallons, pounds to kilograms as well as other metric conversions. The slide rule also performs a few more perplexed calculations that implicate airplanes and nautical vessels that are beyond my understanding.
At any rate, these calculations may be done by plainly rotating the NightHawk’s bezel and corresponding specific arrows at sure points along the dial. (If you don’t believe me, you may download the Nighhawk’s PDF manual and read up on it for yourself.)
In fact, it is requiring little effort than using a calculator and clears up the huge mystery of what humans applied before computers and electronic calculators were invented; they applied the “Slide Rule”.
Being a graduate student, I’ve read in regards to the slide rules in a potpourri of classes but I never thought that I would own one on my next watch. I also would have never guessed that the slide rule is so effective and requiring little effort to use than the graphics calculators we use in school.
The only negatives cocerning the Slide Rule feature on the NightHawk are the numbers on the slide rule dial are little and angled inwards so that they are tricky to read without tilting the watch around to get a good view of the numbers. Also the slide rule only approximates and gives rise to whole numbers for some of the more progressed calculations.
Overall, I found that the utile geek-features, outdoorsman durability, each day ease and eco-friendliness to be well synthesized in the classy steel body of the Nighthawk Eco-Drive.
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
Great watch but needs a stopwatch for aviators
By Alexys
Great watch:
looks great–I get a lot of comments
doesn’t need a battery
fantastic layout–a lot of selective information at a glance: date, local & zulu times
luminous hands
slide rule easy to use and numbers won’t rub out (like on external bezel ring slide rules)
However, for severe aviators:
no stopwatch! You will want a stopwatch to go with the slide rule for basic dead reckoning
you’ll need another light source to read the slide rule if you’re flying at night
also, the crown has an occasional tendency to work itself loose and you may lose your time hack if you don’t tighten it each couple days
The nearest I’ve seen to the elusive “perfect aviator’s watch”
19 of 19 persons found the following review helpful.
Citizen – who’d have thought it?
By Watch This
This is the original Citizen brand watch I’ve ever bought, and so far, it’s as good or better quality than more pricey TAGs I’ve owned. About the only thing missing (aside from a stopwatch, as brought up earlier – but that’s arguable if you’re not a severe aviator) is a sapphire crystal, which would in all probability prevent scratches a little better than the frequent solid homogeneous inorgani substance crystal. For this price, though, I’m not complaining.
I like the layout, the overall aspect and something else not anyone noted – the band clasp is a very smart design. Not only does it have something similar to the Rolex “Flip-Lock” clasp, but the main clasp has what may best be described as a squeeze lock, which must be pressed together from the sides of the band to release it from the wrist. This thing isn’t coming off accidentally.
I got the stainless version, but there is a titanium one available as well as an all-black version. The all black version looked kinda cheap and the titanium was more money, so stainless was the one I chose. Even altho I’m not a pilot, the slide rule is functional (perhaps even useful, in a good deal of situations) and the instructions for it are without apparent effort understood. All that and a five year warranty. And I always equated Citizen with cheaper-made watches – I stand corrected. No regrets.
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