The best gets better! (updated April 1st 2016)

As you probably know if you read my web site, one of my favorite models is my Citizen AT, which I've had for several years now (2010). I love it because I travel a great deal and it is easily one of the simplest of watches to use for different time zones. Simply pull out the crown, turn the second hand to the time zone required and push in again – job done. All you have to know is where you're going!

Citizen CC3005-85E Solar, GPS – about as good as it gets. . .

Now with my new purchase I don't even need to know that! Citizen's new GPS model takes care of that with the advent of new and superior GPS technology, which supersedes even Radio Control which I naively thought was the ultimate! But my old AT of course was dependent on Radio Transmitter location, so conceivably could be out of contact.
GPS offers so much more, yet the earlier GPS enabled Citizen watches didn't really do it for me, as they had an angular case shape left over from the Attesa series, which if small to average wrist size, they never quite fitted as snugly as I wanted. For me that all important lug to lug size being seemed a little bit too long and at the wrong angle and so over hung the wrist.
This latest model CC3005-85E however is a different ball game altogether. It goes back to the more conventional and in my view a sensible case shape, which fits my wrist just fine and although cased is 44 mm x 13 mm, has that neater lug to lug dimension and angle.
Now where my older AT model was great, this new GPS model is exceptional and it really comes into its own in all respects. Using the new F150 movement , it has an increased accuracy out of the box and even without GPS or Radio Control is within +/- 5 seconds per month , which is really, really good. Add in the GPS function and with one press, hold and and release of the lower right button (A) until the seconds hand moves to rx/time. It then synchronizes with satellite (confirms by moving to OK) then corrects to the exact local time in all around 3 seconds. This is a lot quicker than the ground based Radio Control models I'm used to and indeed any other GPS model I've seen.
Update – (Note – owing to the accuracy of the F150 movement (+/- 5 secs) this watch doesn't really require an auto time check every day – but if more than 6 days since the last time check, it will automatically seek & correct the Time via satellite between 6am and 6pm).
When traveling it can now locate (previous models did not have this feature) which out of the 40 time zones you are in by a longer press, hold and release (4 secs) of the lower right button (A) – the second hand this time will point to rx/gps and calibrate the Zone and Time using 4 satellites within just 3 minutes. As before if successful it will quickly flick to OK and then the Zone and Time are corrected.
So no need to do much of anything again except on occasion push a button – and that means ease of use (so often the enemy of complication watches) which is quite amazing. You can of course quickly set a Zone & Time without using GPS at all by simply pulling out the crown to Pos 1, turning to the Time Zone/City required and push the crown in, just like my old AT model. Bekijk meer replica Zwitserse en chopard gran turismo xl replica