Re: Reliability of Citizen's eco-drive?


wee-meng lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone heard of any reliability issues with Citizen's eco-drive powered
> watches?
>
> I read about Seiko's kinetic watches having problems with the capacity and
> was wondering if such a problem exist with Citizen's.
>
> thx
> weemeg

I have heard nothing but good comments about the Eco drive. Very
reliable and quick to charge unlike the Kinetics. At some point you
will have to replace the energy storage device, but according to
Citizen its failure is a couple of decades away.

.

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