![]() I purchased my Citizen Eco-Drive Calibre 8700 back in 2005 and its worked flawlessly until this year. Remember it's not the heat you're after but the brightness of the source. Just don't put it under direct sunlight, you might deform the casing. Indoor lighting will help in charging your watch but to get a really good charge going, use sunlight. Not doing so may cause your watch to malfunction, forcing you to do a reset.Ħ. ![]() (I learned this the hard way) Some watch models require you to go through certain steps in order. Do not attempt to fiddle with your watch without reading the manual. Aligning or adjusting your watch at low power reserves, will only result in further misalignment.ĥ. When this happens you will need to fully charge your watch under direct sunlight first before attempting to re-adjust or reset your watch. The watch has an auto-power cut-off feature which will stop your function in mid-stride causing some watches to lose alignment. If your watch's dials get out of alignment, that is probably because you attempted to access a feature, like the calendar or local time, and drained your battery in the process. If you notice the second hand moving every 2 seconds instead of 1, that means its time to charge your watch.Ĥ. Your watch will tell you when it's power reserves are low. Which means you will have to charge your watch more often.ģ. Any function aside from basic timekeeping, puts a larger drain on your watch's power reserves. ![]() Leave your watch near a window with lots of sunlight for at least 4 hours a week, to ensure it's batteries are replenished.Ģ. Wearing it everyday, even out in the sun, does not constitute it getting a full charge. The eco-drive is not an automatic watch, do not treat it as such. And for those of you having problems with your eco-drives let me leave you with these few tips:ġ. It is now my third favorite watch, right after my Omega Seamaster and Panerai Luminor Marina. Let's just say that I have now revised my earlier opinion of the eco-drive. Put the eco-drive under direct sunlight for 8 hours, and read the instruction manual that came with the watch. I could tell from his question that he had done this numerous times before, and after I was done, I was told to do 2 things. Probably attracted by the commotion I was making, the sales distributor for the eco-drive who happened to be there, approached me and calmly started asking me a series of questions about my particular experience with the watch. Eager for some small manner of retribution for the money i spent on that watch, I proceeded to berate the poor sales lady about the crappiness of their watch and the gall they had of continuing to sell what was in my opinion at the time, complete garbage. Luckily for me I was able to correct my opinion several months later when i chanced upon a store selling eco-drives at my local department store. It was then that I stuffed the watch deep into in my desk drawer and summarily decided that I had bought a lemon. I did what was advised, but although the watch started working again, the calendar and alarm functions were all screwed up with dials pointing at blank spaces and at some point, even the mode dial refused to work. I called the service center and was told that I should leave it under a lamp for 12 hours to recharge the batteries. Keep in mind that the only experience I have with anything solar-powered was my pocket calculator which works well enough under normal indoor lighting. Not realizing that eco-drive actually meant solar powered, I thought that the regular exposure it had to indoor lights was enough to get it going. After wearing it a few weeks, the various dials started to malfunction, and pretty soon the watch stopped working altogether. Let me just say that my first opinion of the eco-drive was that it was absolute garbage. Aside from being an ecodrive, the retrograde perpetual calendar function got my attention, and so a new addition to my watch family is introduced. Being an avid watch collector, I'm always on the lookout for any new and distinctive features that may set apart a propective acquisition from the thousands of other models that look and function like each other. Dual Time (the 2nd time also adjusts the calendar date, pretty useful if you're flying back and forth between international time zones) ![]() Retrograde Perpetual Calendar (nifty feature if you want to check what day a particular date was) Been a long time lurker and have gotten a lot of useful information from the various threads at WUS, so I thought it's time I gave something back. This will be my first post and first review so bear with me here. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |