Got Myself a Watch Bargain
 

Citizen Eco-Drive ..... looks much better in the flesh than the photo ...... but, anyway, I've Dipped Me Bread :D

http://www.creationwatches.com/produ...91-54F_LRG.jpg

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argoooosy ??


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Yes ...... I didn't like the picture of it, but thought I would have a look, at the price, .... glad I did - it's a great looking watch in the flesh :thumb:

Looks great!

Does indeed look nice

£69 ?

how much are they pete?

i like to treat myself to a protrek but i cant ustify the price at the moment

looks nice :)

£69:99

:D

http://www.findfindfound.com/hk/AT10...1091-54F-x.jpg

Nice,much better value than some of the watches on here of late

looks nice SSU.

I've looked at that before but wasn't paying £129.99. Now it's £69.99 very tempted!

Looks Ok in an Elizabeth Duke/Ratners kinda way..

Good value at £70 notes.

I have the model before it, great looks and very comfortable...and also a bargain at the time :)

Has it a knocklink?

Actually, funny you should mention it, I did need a link knocked out!!

And, for someone so clued in to bargains, I slipped up ... took it to a Jewellers for the link to be removed - cost me £10!!! :cry:

Watching the 14 year old Sunday boy do the job I realised that I could have done it on my kitchen table with a hairbrush and a pair of toe clippers!! AND, to compound my sense of daylight robbery, ARGOS would have done it for NOTHING!!! :cry:

So, I actually felt like a KockLink!! :lol1:

Sounds expensive to me , iv got a couple downstairs exactly the same - £2.97 each !

I suppose being a cheap watch it's got a battery?

£2:97 is very expensive for a KockLink :eek:

Solar Cells - no less!

Quality, I only wear quality :D

Thats much better, seems like the death of a battery watch is when it gets the battery changed. Either leak and let water in, never work properly again or get condensation.

But do remember to stand in the sun with arm raised and watch pointed towards the sun

I've had an Eco-Drive for a several years now and it has worked faultlessly. It's really light as the case and strap are titanium. It only needs a few seconds of direct sunlight to fully charge (and ~15 hours under a 100W light bulb, although I've never tried this out) so no danger of it running out of power.

I used to swear by Fossil watches, but the batteries never seemed to last and it costs a fortune to have them replaced and made water-tight again I ended up with a drawer full of dead ones. It'll be interesting to see how long the Eco-Drive keeps going for - Citizen claim 20+ years, but I'll believe that when I see it.

Looks like the sort of thing jet pilots and racing drivers wear Pete. :D

It's a good looking watch anyway and sounds like you did well out of it.

Les ;)

I look like a Fighter Pilot/Racing Driver - so, I suppose it finishes off my debonair good looks :D

Fighter pilots are wimps, they run away if it gets a bit difficult!

Its time you posted your photo again, there will be a few who dont know what you look like!

Les :D

Is this the first post Yoza watch thread, or are you trying to flush him out from behind an assumed identity ?

Hi Yoza if you are "watch"ing !

i thought he was doing "time" ?

Pete,

It does have a "battery", albeit its not of "normal" battery composition and Citizen call it a "special energy storage cell" :D

So, it could actually be a capacitor ... and not a battery? :D

I did think of that, but if it sounds like a battery, looks like a battery and acts like a rechargeable battery, its probably a battery :D

I doubt that a capacitor could maintain the supply for long enough periods of time - your watch can probably go for weeks without sunlight charge before it stops.