Citizen Eco-Drive Men's Blue Angels Skyhawk A-T Watch #JY0040-59L

Dress watch, Analog digital quartz movement, Chronograph, Light-powered Eco-Drive technology, never replace a battery, Atomic timekeeping with radio-controlled accuracy, 1/100 second chronograph and 24 hour recorder, World time 43 cities, 2 alarms, 99 minute countdown timer, Perpetual calendar, Digital display light, Greenwich Mean Time display, Polished silver-tone hands and markers with luminous accents, White indices, Polished stainless steel blue ion plated slide rule bidirectional rotating bezel, Brushed stainless steel silver-tone case, Polished stainless steel silver-tone crown and selector buttons, Brushed stainless steel silver-tone caseback, 200 meters/660 feet water resistant
Customer Review: Beautiful watch... One (possibly) major flaw...
I compared this Blue Angels version with the Black/Orange version of this Skyhawk model and liked the blue/yellow tones much better. So I bought it. However, Citizen decided to make a change in one of the more important controls between the two variations, the Crown. On the other version, the crown is knurled. Therefore, it's easier to get a grip on it to pull it out as needed. You need to pull the crown out one stop to change to any of the other modes. If you spend good money for something with all these features, you will figure on using them. The crown on the Blue Angels version, albeit nice and sleek, is smooth around it's circumference. When it's on your wrist, you either need a very long (and curved) fingernail to pull the crown from underneath, or you need to remove it from your wrist first. The only point where you can "catch" the crown to pull it is underneath and at the base of the crown. The top side of the case covers the bevel at the base of the crown. Sure, you can leave extra links in the band and "maybe" be able to get underneath the crown to use it while wearing it, but the watch will be spinning all around your wrists during the day. Now, I don't know if frail fingers would do better operating this. Just roughly gauging the human physique, and proportions of the extremities, only someone with large enough arms/wrists would even feel comfortable wearing a watch this size and weight for any period of time. Therefore, I would expect those who can wear it to have larger diameter fingers compared to the rest of the populace. Those larger fingers just cannot get under the crown very easily to activate it. I like the watch's features, but I'm afraid I might have to return it. I will be using the alarms and chronograph quite frequently and having to remove the watch each time I want to do something with it simply will not do. Especially for the price it sells for. I might like the black/orange version if I give it a chance. That has the knurled knob. Or, I might just trade it in for a Citizen Promaster SST instead.