Citizen Men's BL5180-57L Eco-Drive Perpetual Calendar Watch | 
 enlarge
| Brand: Citizen
Category: Watch
List Price: $350.00
Buy New: $210.00
as of 9/10/2010 12:09:36 EDT details
You Save: $140.00 (40%)
Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 546
Band Material: stainless-steel
Bezel Material: stainless-steel
Case Diameter: 40
Case Material: stainless-steel
Case Thickness: 10
Clasp: fold-over-push-button-clasp-with-safety
Dial Color: blue
Dial Window Material Type: Mineral
Watch Movement Type: japanese-quartz
Water Resistance Depth: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 4.8 x 4.4 x 3.7
luminous
MPN: BL518057L
Model: BL5180-57L
UPC: 013205060137
EAN: 0013205060137
ASIN: B000EQS0Y8
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
| |
| Features:
| • | Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Caliber E811 Japanese-quartz movement; charges in natural sunlight or indoor light | | • | Max power reserve: 120 - 270 days with Power Save; low charge warning: 5 days; charge time from stop state to max charge: Incandescent Light - 43 hrs, Outdoors, Cloudy (10,000 Lux) - 12 hrs, Outdoors, Sunny (100,000 Lux) - 4 hrs | | • | Perpetual calendar; chronograph feature | | • | Brushed stainless steel case | | • | Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M) |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Product Description
This men's Eco-Drive timepiece is powered by light, so it never needs a battery. The sculpted stainless steel bracelet bears the flawless execution on your wrist. The deep blue dial presents large, polished markers, luminous hands and a date indicator. Other features include 12/24 time, dual time, alarm, perpetual calendar, and 1/20 second chronograph with measurement up to 60 minutes. The screw-back case provides you with 100M of water resistance.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 50
 Terrific Looking and Great Value Quality Watch August 31, 2010
E.A
Awesome watch, it's so cliche to say that it look's better in person than it does online- though it really does.
There's a lot of debate about the color, some say it's black, grey, and only hinting blue. In regular office/school lighting the color is a graphite blue. It never looks black. In less light it looks darker grey, and in brighter light it shows a lighter grey/blue. Very satisfied with the color though.
It's not THAT complicated to set it up, it's actually quite easy with the video. I could see the chronograph being a little confusing, though I doubt many people even use that.
I have really small wrists, and originally a little worried when the band has a "curve to it". Basically the band on each side of the dial where the band connects- the band goes out straight and is rigid for a few centimeters on each side, so if you have small wrists, the band actually sticks out past the edges of your wrists. With a good amount of pressure you can safely bend it so that it actually wraps around your wrist. With the fix this watch is great for people with smaller wrists since most Men's watches these days just keep getting bigger.
The eco-drive feature is really cool, and I think people overestimate how much sunlight it needs. The manual states that 7 hours of outdoor sunlight, brings the thing to a full charge (which with no light lasts 9 months). Even if you assumed you live a complete indoor life of darkness. It would be pretty sad if you couldn't get 7 hours of sunlight over 9 months. As long as your wearing it, and not leaving it in a dark drawer, I think it would be very difficult to try to make the thing run out of battery. You would have to wearing long sleeves all year long all day long...
Overall great buy. Go for it.
 Elegant, Elegant, Perrrrrrfectly Elegant . . . ! June 21, 2010
Stanley L. Walker (Arlington, VA United States)
This watch looks gorgeous and its eleganza are why I bought it. I do wish that the watch face had true luminous. After a long time in direct sunlight, the hands and markers *ARE* visible but only for a very short time. That is my only gripe about the watch itself. I would advise NOT inserting the disc into your laptop as it has a virus bomb in it. Instead, read and retain the little instruction booklet.
nice watch so far April 28, 2010
Computer jerk
Got this watch yesterday. So far it's good. Nice watch, the size is a little bit small. It charges in the sun. Like other people said, it's hard to change the date. If you want to change the date fom 1 to 30... take your time.
Two things I don't like:
First, The date shows in the date window. The position will change after half day. Even in the afternoon, it will show 90% of current date and 10% of next day. Usually the date will change after 20:00 for other watches.
second: the band is designed with certain curve. You need to be careful if you have small wrist.
 beautiful watch but small April 8, 2010
T. Shen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The moment I opened the box I knew it's beautiful, for every detail. The color is exactly what I want: blue, mixed with a slight percentage of purple, which makes it outstanding rather than pure black.
However, I had to return the watch because it looks a little bit small. The case diameter, described as 40mm according to the website, might be even smaller if you use a ruler to meature it. If you are looking for a watch that really looks "Man" then it's probably not a watch for you. I guess it might be suitable for those who enjoy the city life and have slim wrists.
As for the accuracy I can't comment on this one since I returned it. However I have two other citizen watches, one eco-drive and one automatic. The automatic one gains time at about one minute per couple of months, but the other eco-drive one is very accurate, so I guess accuracy is not a problem for these eco-drive watches.
Nice watch February 10, 2010
E. Leung
The watch is as listed in the product description. Haven't had any problems with it so far. Would recommend it to others.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 50
|
|
|
