Citizen Watches Men's BN0211-50E Promaster Tough

I've owned a few Eco-Drive watches, all from the Promaster family of timepieces. All of them well designed and crafted. All of them rugged wrist wear. All of them unnecessarily complicated for a guy that hasn't been under the ocean in 20 years and will never fly a plane. This gem though; simple, tough. A brilliant handsome timepiece in it's lack of the "extra".The Tough is a smaller watch than I usually wear at 42 mm in width, the face is very legible however. The sapphire is clear and gorgeous, the date window though small is easy to see at standard watch viewing distance (no squinting). I adore the fit of the flat back of the monocoque (mono-coke? mono-co-q? mono-rooster? I haven't a clue how to pronounce that) case. More outdoor, rugged tool type watches should feature this. It's without battery, it's going to have to travel for service when and if it ever needs it anyway. Citizen should produce more of these, the enormous Ecozilla would truly benefit and I'd buy another on that addition alone.I love that the movement is referred to as "budget", it doesn't have the complication as higher end offerings from Citizen but it keeps flawless time as quartz does without the annoyance of a battery. I popped the top on the completely unnecessary but un-sayably cool dry box type packaging and watched as the second hand took off. I set it with an atomic clock app for reference and the difference between is so little that I can't tell the difference.The bracelet...I really don't want to bash the bracelet. It's as well designed, constructed and rugged as the rest of the watch. Solid links, the clasp "butterfly" is milled versus stamped. Pins versus screws but I have the tools for that. It's a pretty nice bracelet. It's also a touch tight on my eight and one half inches wrist. The watch is obviously too small for you, you might say. I'd say you're mistaken. It wears very well with the exception of the tightness of the bracelet. Rather refreshing actually as all of my other watches are ha-yuge. And ...it's a lot lighter than I would have thought, probably due to that mono-whatever case. All of that said, I called Citizen, talked to an actual person (in the U.S of A) after less than a minute and in less than five minutes of converse I was informed two extra links would be at my door in 7 to 10 working days. At no charge at all to me. That's outstanding customer service. I'd buy Citizen again based on that alone. I've had a great experience communicating with the companies in the P.R.C, Shenzhen Audio comes to mind. Their customer service has always been impeccable as well, but the ease with which Citizen handled my request was beyond a surprise. I was left with time on my hands and I wasted it being absolutely idle, it was wonderful.While certainly not an homage to any of the more expensive tool watches such as the Rolex Milgauss, The Sinn's, The Damasko's, The Ball's; they all certainly lift heavy at the same gym. I still lust after a Ball auto Engineer but the Tough does slake that thirst just a bit.--UpdateReceived the spare links yesterday and ultimately ended up with only one extra link installed. On an 8.5 inch wrist. The link pins push out easily with a spring bar tool. They did require the use of my leatherman's needle nose to remove once pushed through. Re-installing was much the same. Pushing the pin in and using the spring bar tool to "click" them in and center them. For the nearly $500 msrp this should really be screws I think but whom of us on Amazon pays msrp for anything. At the $250-ish I paid. Pins is fine.With the bracelet now appropriately sized wears really nicely doesn't rip the hair out of your wrist. Has a lot of presence on the wrist despite the smaller case size than I'm used to. I really like the toolish look. Simple and masculine. Looks great on leather and fabric straps as well as NATO's. I may purchase another to keep on a strap for the different look and feel. I really like this timepiece.Update No. 2Being a nerd, I set this watch 5 days ago using an app that references atomic time keeping. There's a bunch. Tonight I took another measurement. After 5 days the Tough is accurate to the second. I double checked this against time.gov and the tough is accurate to the second relative to the website. Not bad for a budget movement.Additionally, the Tough has taken uncountable knocks, bumps, runs and glancing blows against a myriad of hard and or abrasive vertical amd horizontal surfaces. The only marking is on the bracelet clasp. I suspect these bilateral marks are from being lain in my bedside table and being tested on my work surface on the wrist. The size has become my new perfect and the weight while reassuring as to the burly construction has become unnoticed. I don't think about the watch on my wrist until I check the time. As much as I appreciate my Maratac pilot (former fav automatic) and my slightly modded Casio tough solar (former fav quartz) this timepiece is tbe only one getting wrist time.

I originally saw an on-line review published by a watch website. It sounded like the watch I had been looking for; a watch that could take a beating, tolerate being in water, not need a battery, didn't have a bunch of unwanted functions and looked good. It is all those things. I would have given it five stars except for the watch band and the date window. The band is probably almost as tough as the watch. Other reviewers have commented that the OEM band took a while to break in. I've been wearing it every day and manually bending the band when it's not on my wrist. It's not getting any more comfortable. I ended up buying an aftermarket band in canvas that looks very much like the original. The other very minor complaint is that the date is not easy to read. I would have bought the watch without the date window, but since Citizen decided to include it, maybe it could have been bigger or, as some others have noticed, not so deep in the watch face so it would be easier to see if you weren't looking straight down at it. Aside from those issues, I see this as being a forever watch. If you're active, don't want frills, don't want to worry about batteries and want something that looks good, this could be the watch for you.

I wanted a tough no frills watch that kept great time that I could wear everyday and I didn’t need to worry about changing batteries. I saw a commercial for this watch while watching ‘Forged in Fire’. When I got the watch I set the time and pulled the crown out and pushed it in the second my iphone changed time, it’s been a week and it goes from 59 seconds to Zero the exact same time as my iphone. I have a couple other fancier watches, but I really love the simplicity and toughness of this watch. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable timepiece.

This review is submitted after one month of daily experience. The watch keeps time with great accuracy. I really like the convenience of eco-drive on this and my other Citizen watch: no winding, no batteries. The watch is top quality manufacture, good-looking, tough, heavy and durable. The only negatives I've encountered are the miniscule, deeply recessed date window and the stiff strap. A quick and easy solution for the minor strap issue is to simply slide the loops back when taking the watch off. The strap complements the watch well and I have no plans to replace it. I have an appointment with my optometrist to see if she can help with the date thing. I note that there has been a significant price drop since my purchase, which makes this watch an even better value!

I like absolutely everything about this watch except for one thing. That is the size of the date display. It is quite small and is difficult for my old eyes to read. If you have better eyes than mine, this may be the perfect watch. Quality is exceptional. Love the Eco-Drive. Face is extremely easy to read - except for date. Comfortable to wear. To me, it looks great.

This is the perfect daily watch if you are hard on watches. I have had two older Eco-Drive watches that had mineral crystal faces and they were both eventually scratched after years of use. Since then I switched to sapphire crystals with a Citizen Eco-Drive perpetual chronograph and the sapphire crystal is practically indestructible. This Citizen Promaster Tough Watch has the sapphire crystal and along with a slim design, two-piece construction, water resistant and never needs a battery...this is great watch for the price.

Really wanted to like this watch. It's pretty cool and the bracelet is very nice. The lume however is virtually nonexistent! Fades literally minutes after activation. For example, I charged the watch for about 8 hours under a very bright desk lamp and the lume was done shining within minutes of removing it from under the lamp. If only they could apply a Seiko type of lume they'd have a winner. Shockingly terrible lume as is. I love Citizen watches (Eco Drive) by the way so was really disappointed.

Four stars only because the bracelet is too small … I really like this Citizen tough watch in general, this is the second one I’ve purchased, my only complaint is that the bracelet needs to have more links it’s very tight on my wrist , in the past there was always enough links to fit a large wrist but now you’re lucky if you can fit a 8 1/2 inch wrist, I have asked the seller if they can provide more links, hopefully they will have some ???

The Promaster Tough (BN0211-50E) arrived earlier than the ETA so was very impressed. It's a heavy duty watch and looks better in real life, and to me seems somewhat larger than it appears on the website. It's certainly has a good solid and robust feel to it. Looks great and it's heavy weight is no longer an issue once on the wrist. It's beautiful in it's simplicity without all the extra bells and whistles which would only clutter up the dial. The only criticism I have with this timepiece is the miniscule date window that one would usually find on a ladies watch. It's also deeply recessed which casts a shadow in certain angles of light making it difficult to read the date unless viewed head-on, hence only four stars. They could have put a day/date instead with a border surround like Seiko does with theirs, which would've been perfect, as I'm retired I loose all track of the days of the week! I would certainly recommend this watch.

Este reloj cuenta con el balence perfecto entre, Belleza, tecnologia, calidad y dureza.Y me llego mucho antes de lo esperado.

The quality is very hi end stainless steel with super titanium finish the bracelet is wow two super hi end the monocoque case and saphire crystal just a perfect watch not to big not too small 42 mm case i love it never have to change battery

Nice watch, love the look and feel it will do well for work and play. Only disappointment is the watch band is made in China