The same !. I have a WR 100 Ecodrive MODEL! I bought couple of other watches but got back to wearing my ECODRIVE after owning it since 2008 and it will long laster than me and that's okay :)
finally i can comment here,ever since the launch of echo drive i was a student.i dreamed of this watch fascinated of its maintenance free and eco friendly. so happy wearing one now,just bought it in my own pocket and hard earned cash .
Man, I fully identify with you, these struck me as luxury, perpetual working watches as a teen, I have a few now, it's my favorite brand and type of movement.
Tenho um Citizen Ecodrive BM-6400, comprado novo em 2011. Já se passaram 12 anos e ele está agora em meu pulso marcando a história da minha vida. Foi o único relógio 'quartz' que gostei realmente. Fica aqui uma pequena contribuição à história dessa linha Eco-Drive.
@@leeosborne6485 yeah me too, I got mine on sale from $450AUD down to $219AUD. I couldn't not buy it for that price, best decision I've made on a purchase in a while. 5yr warranty which is awesome, how's you're watch going?
@@woxy8809 Can't remember the model, but it has analogue hands and an LCD at 9 and 3. I've recently put it in the window and it seems like it's back in operation. I think I bought it in 1999.
Accuracy of a quartz but no battery worries. These really suit my sensibilities. If you can find a deal on a sapphire version you have a great workhorse you can wear every day.
"doesn't need a battery" then proceeds to store the energy in a battery 😂 technically, it's still a battery. you just don't replace it as often (and yes, this battery still needs to be replaced after an extended period)
My uncle had gotten me a nice citizen echo drive watch for Christmas 6 years ago. This watch hasn't seen the light of day since. Until now. And bah gawd indeed it still ticks But it's five minute behind. I believe its legitimately hasn't seen the light of day for over 6 years. So I'm sure once it's stores more echo it'll tick faster
The band for my my Automatic diver can not be shortened When pushing out the pin, a tiny 2 mm "cup" or "cap" comes out as well, probably so that the pin should not slide out. However, It's impossible to get that little cup back in, so the pin that was taken out, now is sitting pretty loose? Any suggestion?
The watches are great but, mine won't charge anymore and I am told it needs a battery. They claim it doesn't need a battery but I can assure you there is one in there.
I have one. Was my daily watch for 7 years. Only reason I stopped wearing it it was I took it to get the glass replaced and my local watch repair place kinda screwed up. Still works but the minute track is now off center and the crown and crocked. Will cost atleast 200 to repair from citizen
5 yrs ago my daughter bought me a citizen eco drive watch,1 yr ago it suddenly stopped and I took to a shop for repair the watch,he opened the back of the watch and took out the battery and replaced new batteries instead,but it doesn’t work so he took out the battery again and spray some oil at the watch than placing the cover. I took back the watch and that still not working and went to another shop,he said that it’s eco watch and cannot replaced or repaired and he suggested that I replace the watch itself, I don’t agree to it and took back. Than I remembered that before I used it I have to put outside for the light and I did by putting it under the sun because it doesn’t work for quite some time for about three days and it did work but not long it stop again,what m I suppose to do now, I love the watch and it’s worth it to have a valuable present,please help me with my problems of my watch
I have same issue with my watch, I just put a new "cell" battery in it put it in sun for 3 days and doesn't keep time at all and the hands do not work as they are supposed too.. EX second hand "which they don't call a second hand" will never reset to 12 oclock to set stop watch, wish it worked as you do
It’s ok,it’s already spoiled,after that I to citizens shop and replaced a new face of the citizen but it looks awful but then it’s nice to me of new face but to others it too awful,thanks anyway for advice
Take it to a authorized citizen watch repair shop and get the capacitor changed. I have the same eco- drive watch bought it in 2010/11 and 2020 it stopped, after changing the capacitor, now the watch runs fine ! From time to time please expose it to direct sunlight so it can be charged sufficiently. And while storing never keep the watch in dark places - Better preferebly close to a window or any light source ! Good luck !
Of course it's not a capacitor, that wouldn't work very well for an application like this. It's a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. I don't know where this "capacitor" nonsense with regards to Eco Drive comes from, this isn't the first time I've seen it. Mistranslation? Misunderstanding of the "doesn't need battery changes" marketing? Confusion stemming from the fact that any battery indeed is a slow capacitor by function?
"eko"? - That's "eeko!" And 'Charges from any sort of light' is quite misleading; daylight (sun) & fluorescent charge well, but LED and tungsten take for ever to charge eco-drives.
I got one I don’t wear it much. I tough it was really pretty and have it almost for collection, I notice the time was off couple minutes and I had it checked out and was told it’s a Ecco drive. I didn’t know what that was so I RUclips it and I’m astonish, now I’m going to wear it a lot more. I guess it is true, you pay for what you get. It also has the moon cycles so it tell me how full the moon is it’s really fascinating to see the moon on you’re watch 🌘🌗🌖🌕
Not forever. After 18 years my cell had to be replaced. Took it to the agents - sorry sir, that movement is discontinued, cannot help you. The cells are available online, but the monocoque case requires a watchmaker to replace them, which one cannot find nowadays. Only clueless jewellers. They are nice, but not "forever", and you cannot leave them in a drawer for a long time. They have to be kept reasonably charged.
Wow, a watch that never needs a battery, and the "cell" tested to last 10 years ?. I wish there is a normal quartz watch that can run for 10 years (change a battery "cell" every 10 years) at much less cost.
My cousin got 11 or 12 years out of a Skagen watch, it’s got to be some kind of record. Anyway I bought my dad a citizen echo drive day date in 2002 and it has already had to have three of the rechargeable capacitive batteries at $90 each so I will stick with my regular quartz watch
I had my citizen eco drive quartz watch for 10 years, and it still runs like a charm. I had heard from others saying from their own experience that the "cell" may need a replacement after 15 years of use. That's actually impressive.
My eperience is with a Kinetic. Because i thought of keeping it as a collector item, you know, auto matic, wind, battery, kinetic, solar etc... Thinking it could last, i dont use it often, until one day, it stopped. I opened it and found the battery have some osidation.
My Citizen Nighthawk watch is 14 years old (bought it brand new), still works perfectly fine. The problem is not the battery but that I got bored with it and wear different watches nowadays, mostly old school mechanical.
yes, but mechanical watches have poor accuracy and short power reserves, and servicing is expensive, especially for expensive watches it might go stupidly high.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, I've not been going out into direct sunlight a lot (working from home), and my watch was stored mostly in my bedroom, which I almost always have the light on in. Now, my watch battery is dead and doesn't recharge fast enough to operate unless I go outside while wearing it (which I'm discouraged from doing, since it's out of battery!) Anyway, this tech worked perfectly when I went outside wearing my watch every day, but since I don't wear it outside anymore, it's basically become useless.
My 14 years old Citizen Nighthawk died too as I rarely wear it nowadays. Left it for days on a sunny windowsill - works like new now. Because you've fully discharged your battery those brief moments you go out are insufficient to fully recharge it. Do the same - leave it on a sunny windowsill for a week, see how it comes back to life.
you charge it on any artificial light but if ever you will use light inside your house just put it closer to the bulb light so that more power can be charge..
my father gave me his Eco drive that his uncle got for him. its 17 years old now and it works like a charm. Like no joke. i might change out the capacitator purely because of interest but ut dtill works
Eco Drive is decades old tried and true equipment by now. I don't know if the earliest adopters from way back then got screwed, I've only heard from people buying these watches the last 15 years or so, and they generally seem happy.
"Revolutionary concept: A watch that never needs a battery!" Okay, so just like literally every watch before 1969? Not knocking the Eco-Drive, but this marketing is stupid. Also, they didn't actually explain how it works, just that it's solar powered.
Owned citizen watch for more than 20 years. Never needed to replace batt, working like a charm! 🍷
wow that's impressive!
Model??
Just bought one for my 21 year old daughter, she loves it. it should last a life time they say
Basically Japanese built quality in a nutshell. Also German engineering. Its honest work compared to the crappy Chinese shit
The same !. I have a WR 100 Ecodrive MODEL! I bought couple of other watches but got back to wearing my ECODRIVE after owning it since 2008 and it will long laster than me and that's okay :)
We need this "technology"... On every smartphone
This only can work in watches since watches don’t consume much energy
@@fedupadhesive4885 solar energy can power a whole house wdym
@@pedramtajeddini5100 do you know how big a solar panel is for that and how much sun exposure it gets?
@@BobRoss_lover i do... but a smartphone isn't as big as a house either is it?
@@pedramtajeddini5100 how often do you leave your smartphone out in the sun?
finally i can comment here,ever since the launch of echo drive i was a student.i dreamed of this watch fascinated of its maintenance free and eco friendly. so happy wearing one now,just bought it in my own pocket and hard earned cash .
Man, I fully identify with you, these struck me as luxury, perpetual working watches as a teen, I have a few now, it's my favorite brand and type of movement.
Congrats Bro
Congrats man. Work hard, play hard!
I own a luminow..every 1 to 2 years chamge batter..and its x cheap...
Good shit bro I got mine as a gift and I fucking love it
Tenho um Citizen Ecodrive BM-6400, comprado novo em 2011. Já se passaram 12 anos e ele está agora em meu pulso marcando a história da minha vida. Foi o único relógio 'quartz' que gostei realmente. Fica aqui uma pequena contribuição à história dessa linha Eco-Drive.
Just got My Eco-Drive chronograph today and I'm so happy with it! Great quality for the price! 😀👌
Just purchased mine today half price from 350
@@leeosborne6485 yeah me too, I got mine on sale from $450AUD down to $219AUD. I couldn't not buy it for that price, best decision I've made on a purchase in a while. 5yr warranty which is awesome, how's you're watch going?
Citizen style makes me smile
😊🙃☺🤗
I have two from 10 years ago....still ticking!
It has a battery that will need replacing at some point.. 10-15 years.. Just like any other quartz watch..
No it doesn't. It's not a battery it's a capacitor.
@@williamjames9515 its lithium ion
Mine lasted about 20 years before the internal rechargeable battery died.
@@bumblerbumble9843damn that was long. What watch do u used?
@@woxy8809 Can't remember the model, but it has analogue hands and an LCD at 9 and 3. I've recently put it in the window and it seems like it's back in operation. I think I bought it in 1999.
I need this 'light' technology to power my smart devices. 🍷😎
Accuracy of a quartz but no battery worries. These really suit my sensibilities. If you can find a deal on a sapphire version you have a great workhorse you can wear every day.
Just purchased a citizen titanium eco drive sport!!! This might be my last watch I ever purchase again I'm in love with it ! Quartz is super accurate
Well.....I'm sold. Citizen had me at "forever"
Have one that is almost 25 years old & abused in the heat, still holds a charge for months.
I have one FORMA with non rechargable battery and it still works like a charm.
LED lights seem to charge these watches poorly.
"doesn't need a battery"
then proceeds to store the energy in a battery 😂 technically, it's still a battery. you just don't replace it as often (and yes, this battery still needs to be replaced after an extended period)
15 to 20 years. Better than every two or mechanical servicing
@@Chrishagen It will still require servicing at some point.
Eco drive basically is solar powered?
Yes, just another name for solar powered 😂
NO powered by other Light also.
I need one, I'm currently using the Citizen quartz 50 😮
My uncle had gotten me a nice citizen echo drive watch for Christmas 6 years ago. This watch hasn't seen the light of day since. Until now. And bah gawd indeed it still ticks But it's five minute behind. I believe its legitimately hasn't seen the light of day for over 6 years. So I'm sure once it's stores more echo it'll tick faster
The band for my my Automatic diver can not be shortened When pushing out the pin, a tiny 2 mm "cup" or "cap" comes out as well, probably so that the pin should not slide out. However, It's impossible to get that little cup back in, so the pin that was taken out, now is sitting pretty loose? Any suggestion?
The watches are great but, mine won't charge anymore and I am told it needs a battery. They claim it doesn't need a battery but I can assure you there is one in there.
I have one. Was my daily watch for 7 years. Only reason I stopped wearing it it was I took it to get the glass replaced and my local watch repair place kinda screwed up. Still works but the minute track is now off center and the crown and crocked. Will cost atleast 200 to repair from citizen
Just bought one to gift for someone who is close to my heart. I hope she likes it
5 yrs ago my daughter bought me a citizen eco drive watch,1 yr ago it suddenly stopped and I took to a shop for repair the watch,he opened the back of the watch and took out the battery and replaced new batteries instead,but it doesn’t work so he took out the battery again and spray some oil at the watch than placing the cover. I took back the watch and that still not working and went to another shop,he said that it’s eco watch and cannot replaced or repaired and he suggested that I replace the watch itself, I don’t agree to it and took back. Than I remembered that before I used it I have to put outside for the light and I did by putting it under the sun because it doesn’t work for quite some time for about three days and it did work but not long it stop again,what m I suppose to do now, I love the watch and it’s worth it to have a valuable present,please help me with my problems of my watch
I have same issue with my watch, I just put a new "cell" battery in it put it in sun for 3 days and doesn't keep time at all and the hands do not work as they are supposed too.. EX second hand "which they don't call a second hand" will never reset to 12 oclock to set stop watch, wish it worked as you do
Guys take to a citizen dealer, the real one ..
@@Rcskaliks where can I get a new watch but not actually watch but the body inside to battery because I want to use the old wristlet tq
It’s ok,it’s already spoiled,after that I to citizens shop and replaced a new face of the citizen but it looks awful but then it’s nice to me of new face but to others it too awful,thanks anyway for advice
Take it to a authorized citizen watch repair shop and get the capacitor changed.
I have the same eco- drive watch bought it in 2010/11 and 2020 it stopped, after changing the capacitor, now the watch runs fine !
From time to time please expose it to direct sunlight so it can be charged sufficiently. And while storing never keep the watch in dark places -
Better preferebly close to a window or any light source !
Good luck !
How many year smoothly run rechargeable lithium ion battery?
A watch that never needs a battery. In the next sentence it states that it uses a "Lithium Ion cell". It's a rechargable battery' lol.
Like the idea,..just need to find the right watch
O need that battery on my welding helmet
has it always been ''echo'' drive? i thought its ''eeko''
Same.
It's not a BATTERY! It's a CAPACITOR! Please try to get it right.
Of course it's not a capacitor, that wouldn't work very well for an application like this. It's a rechargeable lithium-ion battery.
I don't know where this "capacitor" nonsense with regards to Eco Drive comes from, this isn't the first time I've seen it. Mistranslation? Misunderstanding of the "doesn't need battery changes" marketing? Confusion stemming from the fact that any battery indeed is a slow capacitor by function?
Learn about capacitors. Please get it right.
Hello, my Citizen Ecodrive stoppen due to a few months in a dark drawer, my fault.. can I revive the battery just by light or is the battery dead now?
put it in direct sunlight on a sunny day.
my watch is scratched, is it okay if I want to change the glass, or will it somehow mess up the charging mechanism?
A repair shop can change the glass, or may be able to polish the scratches out. No effect to the charging.
my father gave his watch to me. how can i fix the date on this watch? or it will just fix itself when i will wear it
?
yes it will fix it self. just wear it for a couple of years :D
"eko"? - That's "eeko!"
And 'Charges from any sort of light' is quite misleading; daylight (sun) & fluorescent charge well, but LED and tungsten take for ever to charge eco-drives.
I got one I don’t wear it much. I tough it was really pretty and have it almost for collection, I notice the time was off couple minutes and I had it checked out and was told it’s a Ecco drive.
I didn’t know what that was so I RUclips it and I’m astonish, now I’m going to wear it a lot more. I guess it is true, you pay for what you get. It also has the moon cycles so it tell me how full the moon is it’s really fascinating to see the moon on you’re watch 🌘🌗🌖🌕
The hell I didn't knew it's solar. I was thinking to replace the cell for a long time and it was kept in storege
Echo drive?
lol ikr
@@jacobbrooks8056 8
Ego drive, a big fat Ego that never let you down😋🐒
(((DRIVE)))
Amazing!
Basically eco drive is a solar watch
Doesn't need a battery, but it has a battery?
Thought my battery died lol
Not forever. After 18 years my cell had to be replaced. Took it to the agents - sorry sir, that movement is discontinued, cannot help you. The cells are available online, but the monocoque case requires a watchmaker to replace them, which one cannot find nowadays. Only clueless jewellers. They are nice, but not "forever", and you cannot leave them in a drawer for a long time. They have to be kept reasonably charged.
Wow, a watch that never needs a battery, and the "cell" tested to last 10 years ?. I wish there is a normal quartz watch that can run for 10 years (change a battery "cell" every 10 years) at much less cost.
My cousin got 11 or 12 years out of a Skagen watch, it’s got to be some kind of record. Anyway I bought my dad a citizen echo drive day date in 2002 and it has already had to have three of the rechargeable capacitive batteries at $90 each so I will stick with my regular quartz watch
@@RJtoon1 wow $90 each, you can get an Auto Vostok here at that price.
@@sanikam6079 I’m not buying Russian junk thanks.
I had my citizen eco drive quartz watch for 10 years, and it still runs like a charm. I had heard from others saying from their own experience that the "cell" may need a replacement after 15 years of use. That's actually impressive.
My eperience is with a Kinetic. Because i thought of keeping it as a collector item, you know, auto matic, wind, battery, kinetic, solar etc... Thinking it could last, i dont use it often, until one day, it stopped. I opened it and found the battery have some osidation.
Same like Casio tough solar
those degrade over time and eventually you will need them replaced once the cells can no longer hold a charge... but may take years
Will the lithium ion battery lose its charge holding capacity over time? Wouldn't it need replacement then?
No
@@simonthewatchguy6073 thats a long time
My Citizen Nighthawk watch is 14 years old (bought it brand new), still works perfectly fine. The problem is not the battery but that I got bored with it and wear different watches nowadays, mostly old school mechanical.
Yes, at some point, it will fail to hold a charge
A decent mechanical watch should last about 10 years before needing service too?
There's nothing to service in quartz watches though.
yes, but mechanical watches have poor accuracy and short power reserves, and servicing is expensive, especially for expensive watches it might go stupidly high.
..Apart from servicing it EVERY 3 years or so to replace the battery EINSTEIN.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, I've not been going out into direct sunlight a lot (working from home), and my watch was stored mostly in my bedroom, which I almost always have the light on in. Now, my watch battery is dead and doesn't recharge fast enough to operate unless I go outside while wearing it (which I'm discouraged from doing, since it's out of battery!) Anyway, this tech worked perfectly when I went outside wearing my watch every day, but since I don't wear it outside anymore, it's basically become useless.
Just leave it at the window to charge
@@ArcticSeraph but batteries do wear out at some point ...so ? replaceable battery is better no?
My 14 years old Citizen Nighthawk died too as I rarely wear it nowadays. Left it for days on a sunny windowsill - works like new now.
Because you've fully discharged your battery those brief moments you go out are insufficient to fully recharge it. Do the same - leave it on a sunny windowsill for a week, see how it comes back to life.
So your complaining about your solar powered watch that doesn’t get sun light has stopped working? I wonder what you could do 🤔
you charge it on any artificial light but if ever you will use light inside your house just put it closer to the bulb light so that more power can be charge..
I am one the luckiest , owning ECO DRIVE BLUE ANGEL EDITION....
But there is a battery, isn't the battery going to die someday?
If it is, can it be replaced?
Saw one for 1500$
But lithium ion cell expires in 5 to 10 years
cell? so it needs a battery.
My watch won't charge anymore.
:(
I left my battery in the sun for 5 hours and it was working again so whoever watches this can try .
My watches bettery is Dead and there is a scratch on its solar
sure sure. i'll stick with tried and true equipment. let me know in 10 years if it's still working. i'm skeptical. early adopters get screwed.
my father gave me his Eco drive that his uncle got for him. its 17 years old now and it works like a charm. Like no joke. i might change out the capacitator purely because of interest but ut dtill works
literally people never complain about it, it lasts 15-20y easilly. And replacement battery is like 10bucks
Eco Drive is decades old tried and true equipment by now. I don't know if the earliest adopters from way back then got screwed, I've only heard from people buying these watches the last 15 years or so, and they generally seem happy.
"Revolutionary concept: A watch that never needs a battery!" Okay, so just like literally every watch before 1969? Not knocking the Eco-Drive, but this marketing is stupid. Also, they didn't actually explain how it works, just that it's solar powered.
this video does not explain a thing
More like a marketing gimmick. And I hate when they used that robotic female voice.
Echo drive?