10/16/2023 0 Comments Citizen eco drive problems![]() ![]() ![]() I have watches that could accommodate the thickness of seven Citizen Eco-Drive one cases. With the Eco-Drive One watch on, I like to measure it up to other watches and consider how many Eco-Drive Ones I can stack in there. It just feels so impossibly thin, your brain doesn’t register the case as even being there. Forget the relatively light weight of the comfortable, mostly steel case and bracelet, and think about what it feels like to wear a more average-sized watch all the time, and then looking to your wrist and perceiving that no watch case is there! At least that is how the Eco-Drive One looks. I say the latter because even though you are wearing a watch, it is so thin that it is easy to forget you are wearing a watch. Wearing the Eco-Drive One is a unique experience – both positive and at times mentally unnerving. For lovers of Japan’s culture (and their watches) the Citizen Eco-Drive One is everything that is right about the country’s still important watch industry. Now the hard part is conveying that Citizen news to the world and why the Eco-Drive One is a truly remarkable and thoroughly Japanese timepiece. I could tell that to Citizen, this was a major achievement. The pride on the face of the high manager at the brand was palpable when he first unveiled “the world’s thinnest light-powered watch.” With a case that is just 2.98mm thick, it really just looked like a metal wafer attached to a bracelet. I was fortunate enough to be in Japan with Citizen at their Toyko headquarters when this product was officially revealed. Suddenly, I’m excited by a watch in the very same way.įrom a sheer engineering perspective, the Citizen Eco-Drive One collection is a marvel. To this day I don’t remember exactly why the honorable judge grandfather of this historical girlfriend had such a particular fetish for very thin watches, but I do remember how excited he got. Perhaps thin watches were very hard to come by? Perhaps they were very expensive? Perhaps he had a particular qualm with sleeves and never liked to get anything stuck. My mind focused on all the possible practical reasons for such a long-standing desire. It was a Longines actually, and I remember being fascinated by the idea that someone’s aspiration was wearing a very thin timepiece. “For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted the thinnest watch possible.” He tells me. I don’t even recall how the conversation back then started, but suddenly this retired state Supreme Court judge takes off his yellow gold-toned watch on a matching bead-style bracelet and tells me how he recently got it upon retiring. It was easily one of the most memorable “watch” experiences of my early life. Suddenly I was much younger, in the college, pre-watch nerd phase of my life, and listening to a then girlfriend’s grandfather proudly showing me his watch. When I first put this Citizen Eco-Drive One watch on my wrist after sizing the bracelet – I had a moment of déjà vu. ![]()
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