Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6051 in Watches
• Brand: Citizen
• Model: BJ2060-58E
• Dimensions: 3.90" h x 4.40" w x 4.80" l, 1.00 pounds
• Band material: Titanium
• Bezel material: Titanium
• Case material: Titanium
• Clasp type: fold-over-clasp-with-safety
• Dial color: black
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: japanese-quartz
• Water-resistant to 660 feet

Features

• Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Caliber B741 Japanese-quartz movement; Charges in natural sunlight or indoor light
• Max power reserve: 60 days; Low charge warning: 2 day; Quick start ability; Charge time from stop state to max charge: Incandescent Light - 18 hrs, Outdoors, Cloudy (10,000 Lux) - 5 hrs, Outdoors, Sunny (100,000 Lux) - 2.5 hrs
• Durable, hardened mineral crystal; Case diameter: 48 mm; Depth display up to 125 feet; Maximum depth memory; Unidirectional rotating time-elasped bezel
• Titanium case with screw-down case back and crown; Black dial; Date function at 3 o'clock with magnifier; 50-minute chronograph function; 12-24 hour time
• Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
The Citizen Eco-Drive Aqualand titanium men's chronograph watch will make a powerful statement when worn with both business and casual dress, but it's made to take the punishment of deep-water diving with its 660 feet (200 meters) water resistance. It also features a depth sensor that provides an accurate reading to 125 feet and will also record your maximum depth into memory. The large, round watch case and bracelet band are both made from solid titanium, which is nearly 50 percent lighter than steel, but 30 percent stronger. It's also particularly resistant to salt water corrosion, as well as hypo-allergenic--perfect for those with metal allergies.

This watch has a large, round silver stainless steel watch case--which measures 48mm (1.9 inches) wide without the crown and 15mm (0.6 inches) deep--that's topped by a unidirectional rotating bezel with black engraved elapsed time markings. The black dial background features three subdials (for the 50-minute chronograph, 24-hour display, and seconds), large luminous dial markers, luminous white-tipped hands (with red seconds hand). Other features include a large date display at 3 o'clock, scratch resistant mineral crystal with anti-reflective coating, and screw-back case, screw-down crown.

This watch is powered by Citizen's unique Eco-Drive, which absorbs sunlight and any artificial light through the crystal and dial to recharge the watch continuously. With regular exposure to light, the Eco-Drive continuously recharges itself for a lifetime of use. This watch's Eco-Drive provides a 60-day power reserve, and it can be recharged with just 2 hours of exposure to light.

Summary of Features:

• Depth display to 125 feet
• Maximum depth memory
• Unidirectional rotating elapsed-time bezel
• 50-minute chronograph
• 12/24 hour time
• Screw-back case and screw-down crown

The Citizen Watch Brand

The company was established in 1924. The founding fathers selected the name Citizen so it would be "Close to the Hearts of People Everywhere" and soon after adopted the company’s formal name, Citizen Watch Company.

During the last seventy-five years Citizen has expanded its business throughout the world and has achieved recognition as the global brand. The past twenty-five year period has coincided with the company’s dramatic rise to its current position as the world’s largest watchmaker, a distinction Citizen has held every year since 1986.

Beyond sheer size, Citizen is also recognized as a worldwide leader in advanced technology. From the world’s slimmest LCD watch to the first voice recognition watch and the world’s first professional dive watch with an electronic depth sensor, Citizen’s record of "world’s firsts" is unmatched.

More recently, Citizen has staked out a new position as the leader in Ecologically Friendly timekeeping with its Eco-Drives watches that are light powered. With models ranging from dress models to sports models to professional dive watches, Citizen Eco-Drive runs continuously in any kind of natural or artificial light for a lifetime of use. Fueled by light, it never needs a battery.

Eco-Drive Frequently Asked Questions (See the full Citizen Eco-Drive FAQ here)

How can you tell if the Eco-Drive watch is getting enough light?
In normal use, the watch displays the time and the sweep-second hand moves in one second intervals. A very important feature of Eco-Drive is the Low Charge Warning Mode which as a result of low battery voltage, causes the second hand to jump two seconds at a time (while still keeping correct time).

How long will an Eco-Drive watch run after it is fully charged?
If your watch is put away where no light is available to it while in a fully charged state, depending on the model, it will run for from 45 days to 5 years.

How can the Eco-Drive watch be recharged?
Besides sunlight, it can be safely charged by exposing it to a fluorescent desk lamp, with the dial (face) up and within about 8 inches or an incandescent lamp (regular light bulb) no closer than 20 inches. Never use a halogen lamp since the heat generated by it can cause damage to your watch. The most efficient and the quickest is in direct bright sunlight (not windowsill) and never on the dashboard of a car.

Customer Reviews

It's a good sturdy watch, but might not impress watch snobs.
I'm a diver, and my wife wanted to buy me a watch to replace my cheapo watch. I wanted a big geeky dive watch, my wife wanted a nice watch that would look good with a suit. We both liked this watch.
In the past, I've never had a watch last more than a year. I'd buy watches that claimed to be waterproof to 300 meters, and the first time I'd dive with them would usually be the last. Sometimes it would only take a swimming pool to kill them.
All that changed when I got this watch. I've had it for almost 4 years now, and it just keeps going.
I dive with a dive team. We dive at least once per month. I've dove in water from 34 degrees up to 82 degress, and depths to at least 75 ft. In the last 4 years, this watch has gone with me on every dive. I remember one cold water dive where my dive computer's lcd screen went blank from the extreme cold. My Citizen watch kept going without a hiccup.
Our team does swiftwater rescues also. This training involves swiming down whitewater rapids and bouncing our bodies off rocks for fun. This watch stands up to that abuse too.
I can't imagine anyone questioning it's waterproffness. It's an AQUALAND! They are DIVE WATCHES! Not fancy watches that are supposed to look like dive watches.
If you want a fancy watch that does everything, this may not be the watch for you. But if you want a watch to tell the time, the depth, how long you've been in the water, what the max depth of your last dive was and the date, this watch fills the bill and looks good on your wrist doing it.

Pluses:
The glow-in-the-dark spots make it easy to read the time in low light.
The titanium is hypo-alergenic. Most stainless watches make me break out. This one doesn't
It's lighter than it looks (it's the titanium)
There's a section of the watch band that slides out to accomodate a diver with a wetsuit. Neat idea.
Two hours of light (doesn't even have to be sunlight) runs the watch for a month.
The band is comfortable, and stiff enough that it stays put. It doesn't rotate around your wrist like some of the other watches I've owned.


The only minus I'd mention is that the face is a little busy, which can make reading the time a challenge at certain times. I've gotten used to it.

If the link pin on your band fell out, somebody screwed up when they sized it. There are little rings inside the links that capture the pin. If you aren't carefull (or don't know about them) they can easily fall out when you have the pin out. Once they fall out, the pin won't stay in the link and will work itself loose. Have a jeweler size the watch for you. If the pins fall out, find another jeweler that knows what they are doing.

Great watch, until you actually take it out for a dive
I owned this watch for 11 months before I took it out for a first dive. Before that I really liked it. It is light enough, robust, kind of looks classy, and I really like the ecodrive.

First dive I took it out on it performed very well. We were under for 55 minutes at max depth of 55 feet/18 meters. The watch read great, even during the safety stop at 15 feet it was responsive and read well. After the dive it remembered max depth for record keeping purposes, which I really liked.

About two hours after the dive, the trouble started. When rinsing it with fresh water, I noticed condensation on the inside. Within a day I realized it was dying a slow death. The moisture on the inside must have killed the eco-drive and maybe drained its battery. The power drained, the watch slowed down, and after 5 days, it was all over.

I am very disappointed, because this is not a cheap watch, and I could also have bought a $200 SUUNTO computer that would not have given me this trouble.

The next step is to test Citizen's warranty, and see if they fix it for free, and then if it will work as a true dive watch. I am not getting my hopes up.

Update June 13 2009: Citizen repaired the watch without charge under warranty. I have a dive trip coming up in July and will test again then.

Update July 30 2009: took the watch out for 4 dives, deepest was 70 feet. It performed very well and I enjoyed to dive with it very much. In addition, I took it out snorkeling and skin diving to maximum 30 feet and it responded very well. With the watch repaired for free under comprehensive warranty, I raise it to 4 out of 5 stars.

4 years and still going strong....
I bought this watch for my husband - a dive shop owner and instructor - in 2004 to replace his previous Citizen Aqualand (which he had for 5 years before that!)

The watch performs beautifully even after years of 2-tank salt water diving, teaching sessions in pools etc. He has never had any problems with his watch whatsoever, and it still looks great, whether he's wearing it in the water, or to a meeting.

If he ever had a problem with the one he's got, he assures me that the next thing he'll do is go right back out and buy another...

Problems with the watch as reported are probably due to improper sizing, or not ensuring the knob is screwed in properly before entering the water...

Worth every penny!