Review of the Citizen BL5250

This is more then just a minor annoyance; it has deterred me fromusing the ALM and L-TM features for anything except testing.The alarm on the BL5250 is not especially loud. I didn't expect something that could wake me up or that I could hear at a concert, but it is not loud enough to be all that useful. The volume was very similar to the beeps from a Timex Ironman as the features arechanged.Lastly, the handbags comes in a standard circular Citizenzippered box and is fitted to a medium brown faux leather strap withcontrasting Breitling-style stitching.The 2 o'clock register willshow the elapsed minutes, and the large second hand reflects the chronographseconds. I found this somewhat inconvenient as the chronograph should activate when the 2 o'clock pusher is pressed; switching to the chronograph feature should be automatic as the pushers won't commonly be used for anything else. Having to go through two stepsforced me to leave the BL5250 in the "CHR" mode all the time,forfeiting normal seconds.The next issue involves the "L-TM" and "ALM"modes. Both require the nice watches to move the hour and minute hands to setpoints. The L-TM mode will show a second time zone (theoreticallyhandy for travelers) and the ALM mode shows the current timesetting for the alarm. The BL5250 takes a very long time to change from thecurrent time to either of these values since the hands move slowly, cannot jump between AM and PM, and will only advance in a counter-clockwise fashion. When testing this, I simply removed the mon handbags from my wrist and went to get something to drink.