Review of the Citizen JV0010

In addition, it's sold in a variety of other versions - metric measurements, asymmetric case, bracelet, orange strap, etc.In this picture, you can see the right-side buttons and water sensor.The buttons are plastic, textured with raised dots for traction andquite usable. You can also see the nicely brushed finished and complexshape of the case.There's a broad spectrum from 'dive-style watch' to 'dive computer'.Up for review today is the Citizen JV0010-08E, also known as the 20th Anniversary Aqualand. It's a solar-powered dive my watches/computer, sporting both analog hands and a medium-sized digital display. Citizen has made a lot of dive computers and watches over the years, but this is the first Aqualand that uses their Eco-Drive solar technology. The features include:It's a very large watch, 50mm by 17mm thick, weighing in at 135g with the integrated 25mm urethane strap.Stainless steel case, with a brushed finish, matching buckle. The bezel is high-polish stainless steel. Screw-back case, no crown.Power reserve of 6 months to 2.5 years, depending on power save mode.The Citizen quartz U10 module is accurate to within 15 seconds per month.Water and pressure sensors (water sensor on the right side,pressure on the left.) that let the nice seiko automatically enter dive modewhen depth exceeds about 4m (12ft)Analog and digital depth meters, measures up to 100m (330ft). Outof the water, the depth gauge hand indicates power reserve (batterycharge).Three alarms, each in its own timezone.World time in 42 cities plus UTC, 29 time zones.Local and world time, second timezone on digital display.Logging of up to 20 dives, each recording max depth, minimum temperature, total dive time, starting time and time zone.After a dive, the watch automatically measures su***ce time andshows you the dive time and max depth of your last dive, so as to avoidgetting the bends.Electroluminescent backlight for the LCD display, and blue-glow lume for the hands, bezel and dial.Unusually for a dive watches brand, the bezel is under the (mineralglass) crystal and fixed. Normally, you rotate the bezel to line upwith the minute hand when you submerge; Citizen cleverly inverted this:When it switches to dive mode, the minute hand zips to 00 and startstiming the dive!User-settable dive alarms for max depth, bottom time trigger sound as well as a red LED at 12 o'clock.