Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2449 in Watches
• Brand: Citizen
• Model: EW8464-52D
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: jewelry-clasp-with-push-button
• Dial color: mother-of-pearl
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Japanese-Quartz
• Water-resistant to 99 feet

Features

• Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Japanese-quartz movement; Charges in natural sunlight or indoor light
• Durable, hardened mineral crystal
• Case diameter: 21 mm
• Stainless-steel case; Mother-of-Pearl dial
• Water-resistant to 99 feet (30 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
Add a graceful complement to your most stylish couture with the Citizen EW8464-52D two-tone stainless steel women's watch featuring Swarovski crystals encrusted into the round bezel and accent pieces of the bracelet band. Manufactured in Austria, Swarovski crystals are machine-faceted, optically pure, and made of 32% lead, producing a highly refractive quality. It also has a Mother-of-Pearl dial background, thin gold hands, and a mix of gold dial markers and Roman numerals. The artful stainless steel bracelet is composed of silver stainless steel pieces highlighted by Swarovski crystals against a gold-tone background.

It's powered by Citizen's unique Eco-Drive, which absorbs sunlight and any artifical 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.

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

cheri12
I love this watch! It just takes a few days to initially charge by simply exposing it to sunlight and it's good to go (as long as you charge it occasionally). Sometimes I go days without having it exposed to much light at all and it works fine. To top it off it's beautiful, and always gets a lot of compliments. Highly recommended.

Love this watch!
It's a beautiful and elegant watch, and I wear it every day.

Beautiful and useful
The Citizen Watch Company (originally Shokosha Watch Research Institute) has been around since 1918, and since that time it has been renowned for its excellent products. This beautiful watch is part of the Eco-Drive range, which is powered by a tiny solar panel, which is cleverly hidden under the face. Also, giving the watch its glitter is a number of wonderful Swarovski crystals. Swarovski has been making jewelry-grade crystals since 1892, and their consistent quality has kept the company going through wars and the rise and fall of empires.

So, if you want to buy that special lady in you're a beautiful and useful watch that she will treasure for years to come, then get her this watch. It is a treasured part of my jewelry collection, and I love the man who gave it to me!

(Review of Citizen Eco-Drive Women's Silhouette Crystal Watch #EW8464-52D)