Solar Powered Watch

Del2005

I've had a Citizen Eco Drive watch for years and have recently found out that the battery is goosed. It'll keep a time OK but if it doesn't get light it looses time, it does the 2 second index, but doesn't recover it when exposed to light again.

So I'm thinking to replace it with another solar watch. My current watch is titanium and about 40mm, I want to keep the titanium and around the same size. I can spend about €500 and I can go up a bit more for the right watch or spend less. I've been looking on Amazon and Watchshop and all there seems to be are Citizen and Seiko. I've spotted a few I like but would like to know if there are other manufactures who do solar powered watches.

Thanks

Winterlong

Cant help you on the new watch, but if you also want to keep your old watch you can get the capacitor cell of your old watch replaced. That will give it another good few years. There is a good thread on this over on watchuseek.

Clareman

There are loads of Seiko solar out there, I have this 1 myself http://www.jomashop.com/seiko-watch-ssc243.html

http://www.jomashop.com/seiko-solar-chronograph-watches.html#39256

Del2005

Winterlong wrote: »

Cant help you on the new watch, but if you also want to keep your old watch you can get the capacitor cell of your old watch replaced. That will give it another good few years. There is a good thread on this over on watchuseek.

The watch is fine apart from when it's kept in the dark for too long, I plan on keeping it and using as a everyday watch

Clareman wrote: »

There are loads of Seiko solar out there, I have this 1 myself http://www.jomashop.com/seiko-watch-ssc243.html

http://www.jomashop.com/seiko-solar-chronograph-watches.html#39256

Will have to spend some time looking through them.

Senecio

Argos usually have a good selection of eco drives.

art

For a more exclusive type option, there's Junghans:

http://www.junghans.de/en/junghans-collection/watches/performance/performance-forcemegasolar/018-1133-44/model/detail.html

edit: whoops, that's the expensive ceramic one - this one is the ~€500 one:
http://watches.uhrzeit.org/watches/Junghans/Performance/Milano-Mega-Solar-Funkuhr-056_4220.00.php

Darwin

Another two possibilities. The first is below your budget - check out the Casio Edifice Solar range. They also have a Solar range in their other lines, e.g. Pathfinder and G-Shock.
The second is above your budget, Tissot make a Solar version of the T-Touch Expert (here), you can usually find them online from €800 or so.