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Need help from a watch guru
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:15 am
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:15 am
looking for a cheaper watch in the $75-$100 range. What is the difference in the citizen eco-drive and citizen quartz?
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Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:17 am to oleyeller
My only advice is to ignore anything that Broke fella recommends. He wouldn't know a Timex from a Rolex. He's bad, really bad.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:17 am to oleyeller
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looking for a cheaper watch in the $75-$100 range
So not the 65$ one a few threads down..?
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:17 am to oleyeller
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:19 am to terd ferguson
i want a citizen
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:35 am to Oates Mustache
Lol
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:38 am to oleyeller
eco - drive is their version of an automatic, which means it does not have a battery. it operates from the movement of your wrist. "quartz" means battery.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:40 am to oleyeller
An eco drive is solar powered and won't need its battery changed for much longer. Really, they are both quartz movements. It's just that the eco drive is a solar powered quartz movement. I would go with an eco drive if all else is equal.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:40 am to FishinTygah84
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eco - drive is their version of an automatic, which means it does not have a battery. it operates from the movement of your wrist. "quartz" means battery.
You are a fricking retard.
Eco-drive HAS a battery which is basically solar powered.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:40 am to FishinTygah84
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eco - drive is their version of an automatic, which means it does not have a battery. it operates from the movement of your wrist. "quartz" means battery.
No.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:42 am to oleyeller
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What is the difference in the citizen eco-drive and citizen quartz?
I'll explain. Quartz just runs off of a $2 regular watch battery. Eco drive is a solar powered battery. You stick the watch in the sun and it charges the battery. Put it in a dark box and it loses power. The battery is about $15 and they can go bad. They aren't supposed to but they do.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:45 am to Broke
thanks, i will prob just get a quartz then. I dont want to have to depend on the sun
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:46 am to oleyeller
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thanks, i will prob just get a quartz then. I dont want to have to depend on the sun
Just keeping it on the dresser will be enough. It has to stay in a dark box for like a month before it will die on you. It's very unlikely that you will have any issues with it.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:48 am to Broke
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Broke
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You are a fricking retard.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:48 am to oleyeller
Eh. I really don't think it's quite like what you seem to be thinking. The eco drive and basic quartz both have batteries. I don't think that the rate that the batteries themselves drain will really be that if any different. It's just that with an eco drive you won't have to take the watch in as often to get a battery changed. If eco drive vs quartz is your only deciding factor then eco drive is the definite choice.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:53 am to Broke
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Just keeping it on the dresser will be enough. It has to stay in a dark box for like a month before it will die on you. It's very unlikely that you will have any issues with it.
So the battery itself does have less independent life between quartz and eco? I guess that would make sense. I don't really know that much specifically about the engineering of the solar watches.
I still say that eco is the definite choice between the two though (all else being equal). Like you said, you'de still almost have to try to kill the eco drive battery by burying it in dark.
This post was edited on 4/2/15 at 10:55 am
Posted on 4/2/15 at 11:00 am to oleyeller
Invicta 8926 with the NH35A movement. Best $85 watch ever made. Throw it on a nato strap because the bracelet is not that great.
There are a couple of really nice sterile 5512 and 5513 style watches with ETA movements. I would take one of those over the Invicta but they can be hard to find outside of Ebay.
There are a couple of really nice sterile 5512 and 5513 style watches with ETA movements. I would take one of those over the Invicta but they can be hard to find outside of Ebay.
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