It was then that I stuffed the watch deep into in my desk drawer and summarily decided that I had bought a lemon. I did what was advised, but although the watch started working again, the calendar and alarm functions were all screwed up with dials pointing at blank spaces and at some point, even the mode dial refused to work. I called the service center and was told that I should leave it under a lamp for 12 hours to recharge the batteries. Keep in mind that the only experience I have with anything solar-powered was my pocket calculator which works well enough under normal indoor lighting. Not realizing that eco-drive actually meant solar powered, I thought that the regular exposure it had to indoor lights was enough to get it going. After wearing it a few weeks, the various dials started to malfunction, and pretty soon the watch stopped working altogether. Let me just say that my first opinion of the eco-drive was that it was absolute garbage.

Aside from being an ecodrive, the retrograde perpetual calendar function got my attention, and so a new addition to my watch family is introduced. Being an avid watch collector, I'm always on the lookout for any new and distinctive features that may set apart a propective acquisition from the thousands of other models that look and function like each other. Dual Time (the 2nd time also adjusts the calendar date, pretty useful if you're flying back and forth between international time zones) Retrograde Perpetual Calendar (nifty feature if you want to check what day a particular date was) Been a long time lurker and have gotten a lot of useful information from the various threads at WUS, so I thought it's time I gave something back. This will be my first post and first review so bear with me here.

Citizen calibre 8700 skeleton