Hands-On: The Citizen Eco-Drive Promaster Land GMT

The Promaster Land GMT is partially a “flyer” GMT—a hybrid of sorts. You might not be surprised to read that, at the extremely affordable price, the independent hour jumping is a little mushy. It takes about a full clockwise rotation of the crown, in the right position, to jump the hour forward, but the GMT hand also kind of rocks a bit when you do it. Once it’s set, however, everything is correctly aligned. The other downside is that, unfortunately, you can’t set the hour backward (that’s the “hybrid” part), and if you’re going from Europe to the U.S., that could be frustrating. Instead, you have to go forward and reset the date by rotating the crown counterclockwise (on the same crown position).