Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5301 in Watches
• Brand: Citizen
• Model: EW3130-55A
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-push-button-clasp-with-safety
• Dial color: silver
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: japanese-quartz
• Water-resistant to 660 feet

Features

• Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Caliber E100 Japanese-quartz movement; Charges in natural sunlight or indoor light
• Max power reserve: 180 days; Low charge warning: 7 days; Quick start ability; Charge time from stop state to max charge: Incandescent Light - 46 hrs, Outdoors, Cloudy (10,000 Lux) - 14 hrs, Outdoors, Sunny (100,000 Lux) - 7 hrs
• Durable, hardened mineral crystal; Case diameter: 31 mm
• Stainless-steel case; Silver dial; Day-and-date functions
• Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
The Citizen Women's Eco-Drive Sport Watch #EW3130-55A combines sporty style and classy elegance with touches that include a rotating bezel with stand-out and polished stainless steel details. The silver dial face sports large white indices paired with subtle dashes to mark the minutes. A day and date calendar sits at three o'clock. Silver-tone stainless steel at the case, bezel, and bracelet finishes the watch with handsome flare. The bracelet fastens with a fold-over push-button clasp with safety. And because this watch is an Eco-Drive, it is powered by natural and artificial light, offering continuous functionality with no battery. This watch is water resistant to 666 feet and is backed by a five-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

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

Nice Watch - date hard to read
I love this watch. I am a lazy watch wearer, which is why I love waterproof/dive watches which allow me to wear it while swimming and showering. Of course, the biggest drawback is that once the battery dies, most watch manufacturers will not guarantee that the watch will be waterproof unless you send it back to the factory - which usuall involves a long wait and a pricey replacement cost. With the Eco-drive on this watch, the battery is always charging from the sun and will not need replacing. Plus, the style is sporty but nice enough to wear all the time and adjustable enough to fit my very skinny wrists. (In the past I have had to go with rubber as opposed to metal bracelet bands because the bracelets could not be made small enough for my wrists).

Now for the cons. If you need reading glasses, the date on this watch will be difficult to read. I'm ok in bright light, but inside, it's almost impossible to make out. Also, if given the choice, I think I'd like a darker face with the silver-toned hands and number lines. This watch has a light face with silver and white hands and lines, which make it hard to read in some light for those of us over 40.

Overall, though, this a great watch.

Perfect sporty watch for a woman!
I have not worn a watch in years, always trying to find the "perfect one"; a little heavy, not so girly, but still nice enough to wear everyday and on the weekends. This is it for me! It is a little heavy, but I like my watches that way: and I love how it is so easy to read time on it as well (it has minute markers). An all-around great watch, and how nice i won't have to worry about changing the battery....ever! It's solar powered!

Earth Friendly
I collect watches. It's a bit of an obsession. Of all the watches I own, this is my absolute favorite. It's solar powered so the battery never runs out of juice, and it tells the date as well as the day of the week, which is very convenient for those of us who tend to get lost in our work. As a side note, the days of the week are in English and Spanish, so you have the option of setting up the watch to show either language. It's also waterproof, of course. Why would you buy a watch that wasn't waterproof, and run the risk of ruining it the next time you capsize your sunfish or get thrown into the pool? The feature that I like the most, though, and which makes this watch unique to any of the others that I own, is the blue luminescence on the hands and number markers. Instead of glowing green like the hands of most watches, these hands glow a brilliant blue.