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Apr 29, 2022
Bluetooth features work just fine with my phone! Thought it would be too big for me but I love it.
Pairing with my phone via bluetooth is flawless. I have not had any of the problems that many other reviewers have mentioned about the watch dropping connection frequently. Mine easily stays connected to my phone for 6+ hours at a time. My phone's battery does die a little bit faster, so I'm probably not going to leave it connected all of the time, but it works and I have left it connected all day long for three days now. It actually vibrates before my phone does when I get a text message, somehow.
I always keep my phone in 'Maximum Power Saving Mode' and I did not add a 'power-saving exclusion' for the app (to let it use all the battery power it wants and always stay active in the background etc), yet it stays connected just fine.
(I am using Android, and many of the negative reviews came from two or more years ago. Not sure if they company themselves have fixed the problem since then or if my 2022 phone is just better than their 2016-2019 phones or if I'm just a nerd who can fix things without realizing it.)
Took me a couple of hours to memorize the instruction manual, but it's straightforward *enough* in my opinion. (Note at the end about finding the manual)
When I took it out of the box, it was in 'power saving mode', and the hands were facing straight up to noon. As soon as I exposed it to a moderately bright light so that I could get a closer look at it, the hands sprang to life and started spinning to the most accurate time it knew. It was two days and a few hours behind, but it fixed itself AS SOON AS i opened the app on my phone and pressed the top button on the watch.
It came with 3/4 bars of battery life. Had to charge it to 4/4 bars of battery, using a small grow light (make sure not to overheat the watch while charging it!) overnight (8 hrs) before it would let me upgrade the watch's firmware and access all of the app's features, such as setting the alarm or time zone. I could see the 'light indicator', where it shows how much light its solar panels are processing into electricity, though it was obscured by the 'PLEASE UPDATE FIRMWARE' pop-up. I found the maximum (red glow = max, blue = none/least) and then brought the light away until it turned slightly pink, made sure the watch wasn't getting hot from the light, and went to bed.
Once it reached four bars of battery life, updating the firmware was as easy as clicking 'yes'.
I work in a restaurant. Sometimes I wait tables, and sometimes I wash dishes. A lot of dishes. This thing has spent three shifts on my wrist, has withstood plenty of time either underwater or on the receiving end of a steamy-water spray hose ("testing and cleaning", i call it), and I've even operated the buttons and crown while the watch was wet (not advisable!) in order to operate the chronograph and to dismiss text message alerts (though not at the same time - chronograph mode disables bluetooth features temporarily). I am Not Gentle with my watches. If a watch makes it through the first week on my wrist, then it will probably last me many years. My previous Citizen Eco-Drive watch has lasted me 8 years so far under similar situations, and I expect this one to last at least as long as well - I only upgraded because I wanted a chronograph, and found this monstrosity.
(The round part of the watch is 43mm or so. The buttons come out another 3mm and the crown comes out 4mm, thus forming the advertised case width of 46mm. The lug-to-lug width is about 55mm. I was afraid of it being too big for my rather small wrists, but I actually really like it, even though it weighs a third of a pound even after removing links to make it fit me snugly. I think it 'wears smaller' than it is, by a little bit. Any bigger would be too big but I'm glad I took the gamble and bought this.)
Note: My watch didn't come with an instruction manual. Yours might. If not, google "citizen w770 instruction manual" and it should be the first result. I did not have as much luck when googling variants of "citizen eco drive proximity instruction manual", but it shows up that way too.
Final note: If you delete the phone's profile from the watch (TME->fully extend crown->hold top button 7 seconds->second hand spins once to confirm that the profile has been deleted), you ALSO need to remove/'forget' the watch ("w770") on your phone's Bluetooth Devices page. Otherwise it will try and fail to connect and might look broken unless you switch to a different profile (this should make more sense if you're reading the instruction manual). I have seen other reviews where people had that problem and apparently did not fix it. Fairly simple fix though really.