Citizen PMD-56 Still best everyday watch?

[@dustingaddis2423]

Rob - that was my watch you reviewed five years ago! It was my first “nice” watch purchase and set the benchmark all other watches have been measured against ever since. It’s the perfect size, super legible, tough, crazy comfortable, and I’ve been forever spoiled by the quick adjust clasp! In the last five years well over 20 watches have come and gone, but the Promaster is a forever keeper. My BlackBay 58 gets most of my wrist time these days, but the little Citizen is still a favorite. Also the DuraTect treatment is great, the clasp is a little scratched up, the bracelet has some very minor scratches, but the watch head is pristine.

[@Substraal]

I search for a week....everytime a watch missed 1or 2 features. Now i found you and this watch. And this is it! It has everyting i wished for...i subscribed to your chanel

[@RandomRobReviews]

Thanks much

[@brbaabrb7296]

I own the black and green versions of this model. Absolutely love them. As a grab and go it’s perfect.

[@1vw4me]

Green, blue, or original black dial (with black ano outer ring), no matter which one you pick this is a total BEAST. The ultimate grab-n-go field watch. Nato/Zulu strap? Yessss!

[@soulside]

Bought this in Japan a few months ago for a song with the weak yen. I love it - especially the on-the-fly adjustment that the Pro-master Tough is missing.

[@folksurvival]

Yeah I wish the Promaster Tough had that adjustment feature. It should be standard on all bracelet watches at this point.

[@johnrb9397]

Yes it is. I have one in grey it does everything.

[@yarly3180]

Everything? Nah, It doesn't even have a stopwatch or an alarm so IMO a $16.86 Casio F91-W beats this, well it does more at least. 😉

[@jtaka1453]

Clock Wave app works great. Just set it to the JJY tower. Only have to do it a few times a year since it's quartz and has a perpetual calender.

[@paulomarcellus]

I have one. When i need to ajust I use the Junghans app. It emits the radio wave to adjust it.

[@gadgetbeacon]

I have the Black Dial ProMaster Land 2952 and I absolutely love it. Definitely a top 3 watch for me in terms of wrist wear time. That Green Dial POPS I love that the seconds hand is all-white as well. Mine has a black/yelllow seconds hand. Just one of the greatest Field Watches out there right now.

[@micheldepaula8733]

Got the newer version of these, AT6080, amazing watch !

[@jsz1962]

I own the exact same watch. Bought used. Fantastic watch.

[@cardinalj]

I had this watch for a while and like you said, I did not find it intuitive to set. I did use the app but it just seemed like it was more problem than it was worth.

[@MrBacchus18]

The app never even worked for me. Why they just didn't do multiband 6?

[@folksurvival]

@@MrBacchus18 Because it's a JDM product only but still they should have included all bands because of Japanese people traveling with this watch.

[@MrBacchus18]

@@folksurvival that's what I thought even in Japan no multiband is a miss

[@frost12850]

I don’t know how I never heard of this. A micro adjust on the fly clasp too 🤯

[@davidmullineaux6157]

Quick adjust is excellent

[@frankradisch3652]

Killer price! I have it and love it.

[@MrBacchus18]

I had one and I'll say it's great if you live in Japan. I couldn't get the app thing to synch and setting it by hand is fiddly.

[@programagor]

Rather than setting the date manually, I highly recommend using the app method to sync it first. You will need to place the watch on some speaker/headphone, and give it ~5 minutes. After that, the watch will probably show the wrong hour, this is because you need to set the timezone too. Enter the timezone setting mode by [something in the manual], then twist the crown to control the seconds hand, where each seconds corresponds to 1h time offset (I think). When you confirm, the watch will automatically fast-forward or rewind to the hour correct for your timezone. Then when it gets too out of sync, you can either use the headphones again and now it will respect your timezone, or you can adjust the minutes/seconds manually using the crown. But since it ends up off only by a few seconds each year, there is hardly any need for touching the crown. That must be good for the crown gaskets.

[@stevendoll1]

Great watch. A little boring, but sooo comfortable and useful. Atomic feature sort of silly since I am one minute fast over 8 mos. Only thing fun about the watch is that Sun is red which makes the watch remind me of Christmas.

[@alexsdg3441]

they had on-the-fly 5 years ago, but now they don't on most models? how strange is that?

[@loganholmberg2295]

Ive wanted the blue dial version with the red second hand for a whilenow. I keep finding protreks or gshocks I want more though. I wish they either brought this watch over here or let the atomic time work here. I tried the app thing on another watch and its a bit of a pain in the ass.

[@renngretsch]

With 200m water resist, I would have liked to have seen 2 and 4 o'clock screw down crowns to give this watch a super compresser vibe. I have had issues in the past with pushers moving on chronograph watches and leaking. Not with the old Seiko Flightmaster with its screw down pushers.

[@hrudikshah1149]

Great watch, it this available?

[@17cmmittlererminenwerfer81]

Had one, but the combination of the small size and the hassle of dealing with an emulator on the phone to get it to synch was not worth it to me.

[@felixangellopezalonso3993]

Es un reloj muy bonito pero los eco drive son relojes para diario como hagas rotación y lo dejes en la caja al final los acumuladores faltan. Por experiencia propia.

[@themaggot8]

Por algo existen cajas con tapas de vidrio, para que entre luz. Mis Citizen eco drive jamás han tenido problemas.

[@themaggot8]

Pero para eso existen cajas con tapas de vidrio, para que les entre luz. A mis Citizen jamás les ha pasado nada y eso que tengo uno hace casi 20 años.

[@EfenLi-j3c]

👍👍👍 LEGENDARY WATCH MAKE BY CITIZEN BRAND WATCH 👍👍👍

[@ProfessorPesca]

I wish Seiko and Citizen would just do a few time only field watches. This looks so sharp apart from the day-date window which spoils it for me. Sorry to be that guy.

[@indytim]

I'm that guy too. I really dislike date windows. They often ruin a great face.

[@folksurvival]

I wish more watches had a day-date.

[@lewisham]

@@folksurvivalsame. It’s practical.

[@Substraal]

I am so happy it has a day date window...for me it's THE WATCH

[@CTizer]

Im a no date man, but this is one of the best day date integrations, the kanji date adds charm

[@jimmymcclure4549]

Thats weird on the radio control thing. I have one of their radio controlled watches and it works here in the states.

[@e28forever30]

It depends on the model.

[@CTizer]

Best field watch in the world once you get it on a maratac titanium

[@robofatcat]

The hands on the US version ruins the looks of this watch. I got a japanese one off ebay.