Let me tell you that I love Citizen watches because of the built quality of an american product, eco friendly features and of course, the accessible price range, contrarily to other brands that only sell the name...yeah you know who I am talking about; and it's not that I don't like those watches too but is very difficult for me to validate such an amount of money on a jewelry object like a wrist watch. But the reason I am writing this review is for you to have a clearer idea of the phenomenal piece of technology the citizen cb0020-09e is.

I wanted a watch that I could wear all the time and for all purposes like formal events, parties, sports, at the beach,etc. So I decided to go with a watch that had a rubber band because is more flexible for those aspects. Therefore, I chose this model instead of the model with the stainless steel bracelet. Let me tell you that when my watch arrived I was thinking to take it to a jeweler to cut the band but then I saw the review written by Arthur Bradley where he explains how to cut it by yourself, and I think is very easy once you have measure the size of the band on your wrist, everything is very logical really. I did it with a needle to push the pins out and some scissors to get rid of the "rubber links" later on. I had to take out 5/12 pins until the watch sat confortably on my wrist.

The features in this watch are very technological, for instance is an eco drive, that means that as long as you give it some light now and then you will never need to replace batteries (although someone told me that every 10 years or so the watch lose energy so you have to replace the rechargeable battery that replenishes the solar panel inside the watch). It has an antireflective sapphire crystal so zero scratches and great view from every angle. Also 200m water resistance for those times at the beach or a pool when you don't want to take off your watch to swim or dive (not for scuba diving with a tank though).

This citizen is also world perpetual AT, and that means that once you have set the date on the watch it will remain updated every day even in those months with an irregular number of days (I read that it will be updated until the year 2100 or something like that, correct me if I'm wrong). It also is constantly synched to the atomic clock in Colorado every day at 2am.

I want to say something in this respect too, because I live in El Salvador (under  Mexico and Guatemala) and I googled the atomic clock signal map to see if I was going to be able to recieve the signal from Colorado. Effectively the watch can catch the signal from 8pm-4am every day, so that is a plus if you live in Central America or the upper part of South America.

I love the looks on this watch the pictures really don't do it justice, I took some pictures comparing this to my other watch a blue angels skyhawk and if I had to choose between these too the winner would be this, is simply awesome and beautiful watch. Believe in me when I tell you that if you get this watch you will be satisfied in every aspect and will recieve a lot of compliments on this. But most importantly you will have the exact hour, minutes and seconds at that moment, do yourself a favor and buy this watch!

PS: please forgive my awful english! haha