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2. Eco-Drive - Wikipedia

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   According to Citizen, by 2011 80% of their wristwatches featured Eco-Drive, and the company saw Eco-Drive type watches as the focus of new generations of watches. [20] In 2012 Citizen offered over 320 Eco-Drive watch models in various types, styles and price ranges. [21]

3. Citizen Watch - Wikipedia

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   In the rare and discontinued Eco-Drive Duo series, the solar power was supplemented by an automatic quartz power source. One early model, called the Citizen Vitality, used the watch hands to drive a small electric generator, but was discontinued following complaints that the device could explode and cause wrist injuries.

4. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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   This model was an attempt to enter higher-priced markets (at a cost of around $1000 USD), but the technology failed to attract consumer interest and Citizen has since stopped making use of the unique movement. No other autoquartz powered watch from Citizen is known; all other Eco-Drive models only use solar power or thermal power. [citation needed]

5. Solar-powered watch - Wikipedia

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   In 1996, Citizen started to sell analog light-powered watches under the Eco-Drive name. [2] Since their introduction, photovoltaic devices have greatly improved their efficiency and thereby their capacity. Watchmakers have developed their technology such that solar-powered watches had by 2009 become a major part of their range. [3]

6. Watch - Wikipedia

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   Some models need only a few minutes of sunlight to provide weeks of energy (as in the Citizen Eco-Drive). Some of the early solar watches of the 1970s had innovative and unique designs to accommodate the array of solar cells needed to power them (Synchronar, Nepro, Sicura, and some models by Cristalonic, Alba, Seiko, and Citizen). As the ...

7. Talk:Eco-Drive - Wikipedia

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   At present Citizen is currently most renowned for their Eco-Drive movement, which allows the watch to be powered by light as opposed to a standard battery (a solar powered watch in other words)." The Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. article points out that the Eco-Drive line is a commercially successful product line. Tough always subject to personal ...