Accuracy

[budlight]

I bought a new Citizen Eco-Drive Pro Diver watch a month ago and I really love it. Solar powered and one of the best watch bands I've ever seen.

Question is I have been comparing it to a radio set clock and after a full month is it roughly two-seconds fast.

Is that good time accuracy, ho-hum, or poor?

Thanks-

 

[WaltH]

2 seconds over a month is fantastic. I gain about 3 on my Luminox and am very happy with that. Short of a wrist atomic watch I think that's about as good as it going to get.
I can live with gaining a few seconds a month. But losing a few seconds would drive me crazy.

 

[DrAg0n]

how do u know if its not your radio clock that is slow??

BTW, i heard that the eco dirves usually spoil within a year... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif...and has to be sent back to Japan to be serviced.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif....its got something to do with the batt inside...

thats y i didnt go for it....let me know in a year dude... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[budlight]

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DrAg0n said:
how do u know if its not your radio clock that is slow??


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Hey, you're right. Radio clocks are known to spoil after a few million years too, dude.

 

[JackBlades]

Hi budlight!
In my experience +/- 2 seconds a month is the norm for a modern quartz timepiece. I wear a quartz Victorinox Chrono that gains (as close as I can tell) less than .75 second per month. Automatic watches are far less accurate, even certified Chronos. My 12 yr old Seiko Diver loses about 90 seconds a week..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif ....which is why I bought the swiss watch!

 

[DrAg0n]

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Anyway, here in Singapore, most of the retailers are afraid to carry the eco drives, coz from their experiences, customers tend to come back within 6mths to a year to repair the watch, but the shops uaually are unable to repair it....so they have to send them to japan for them to repair the batt inside....so to save the trouble they dont want to sell them at all.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

hope u got a good one... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[DrAg0n]

DAm...just realised that the GIEZ i ordered has a +-20sec accuracy/ mth....that kinda suck... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[avusblue]

I synchronized my good 'ol Timex Ironman some time last summer to my NIST radio clock. It's still within a second! AMAZING quality for something that costs under $30 and holds up under very hard use.

One can't beat the accuracy and durability of Timex, even if you spend 10 or 100 times as much. And the indiglo feature rocks.

I can live without the fashion of a "prestige" watch -- owning Timex gives me all the functionality I want, and leaves more discretionary dough to spend on flashlights!

Dave

 

[Billmanweh]

I always find it amusing when I explain to someone that a typical $30 Timex keeps better time that a typical $3500 Rolex.

 

[avusblue]

Right on! Usually the proud Rolex owner will then justify that it needs a biannual $400 "overhaul" because "you know, fine things need to be maintained." Yet . . . it still doesn't keep accurate time!

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[Dreck]

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Right on! Usually the proud Rolex owner will then justify that it needs a biannual $400 "overhaul" because "you know, fine things need to be maintained." Yet . . . it still doesn't keep accurate time! As an ex-Rolex owner I totally agree with this! Mine needed an annual service of some kind. After four years of Rolex ownership I paid more for the "tune-ups" than I did for the watch.

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[snake]

My G-shock DW-9700 also solar powered, already wear for few years and going well.

will citizen that bad? that re-chargable battery is so difficult to found? need to send back to Japan?? will that be the solar panel got problem, which local dealer couldn't change?

about accuracy, you will get +/- 10sec or 20sec per year in the user manual so 2sec per month is fine for a quartz watch.

there are Rolex cellini quartz, but will you buy that?

 

[DrAg0n]

Well, maybe a Rolex is only ment to show how 'high class' a person is, and it has this unique feature, which is to give the wearer an approx time?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

BTW, speaking of accuracy, does the hour, min and sex hands of the citizen TRUELY line up to the indicators? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Billmanweh]

I've had two different Rolexes and I can't justify the cost and the maintenance. To each his own and all, but my $150 Citizen does fine by me.

 

[budlight]

Ditto.