Some of them has a unique feature. When it sees direct sun light, it resets its digital day-date and its hands move to random positions. I am a lucky one Thanks island watch!
That problem affected, roughly, the first half of the 2023 production year. I have a SNJ027 (most similar to Arnold's 1982 era watch) that was manufactured in October of 2023 and it does not suffer from this "feature." You can check the year and month of production by looking at the first two digits of the serial number. First digit is the year: 9=2019, 0=2020, etc. The second digit is the month: 1 thru 9 = Jan thru Sept, respectively; O=Oct, N=Nov, D=Dec. My watch's serial number starts with "3O" therefore, "2023 October." The rest of the numbers, when combined with the first 2, are a unique identifier for each watch.
I owned the Desert, Safari and the new black SNJ037p1. I love all of them. I wear my Safari model to work and it takes a beating. The new black is going to be my dress up piece. 😁👍 Great video btw, thank you!
Bught the black Ltd edition and it’s a lovely watch. Swapping to a rubber strap for daily use because I prefer those straps and will preserve the black original bracelet from daily wear.
Thank God for the Citizen Aqualand in all its variants so I don`t have to put up with all Seiko`s quality bs. It is a mystery to me how they still have customers.
Yes. All the SNJ03x variants have the depth gauge and water temp. They are calibrated to salt water, so fresh water depth readings may be inaccurate. To the extent of my knowledge, it is not possible to change the calibration.
To make sure it's water resistant to the rated spec, make sure the crown (3 o'clock position) is pushed in and screwed in securely. All the other pushers, make sure they are screwed such that none of the colored rings at the edges of the pushers are visible. As far as I know (I have SNJ027), on all the "Arnie" models (SNJ02x, SNJ03x), just forget about righty tighty, lefty loosey - screw the crown and pushers away from you to close and lock them (crown and pushers are not operable, watch is water resistant). Turn them towards you to open and unlock them (crown and pushers are operable, watch is NOT water resistant). Hope this helps.
@@DeepsGnomeme too! I have the SNJ027, but Sapphire would be awesome. The other thing I'd like is a fully indexed, fully lumed ceramic bezel insert. But I can't find anybody that makes one for the Arnies.
@@DeepsGnome Marc was the first person I reached out to for a ceramic insert. No dice. I should have asked him about sapphire, but it's not too hard to measure with calipers and then source; I've done that before.
