|
| Search Your Product Here |
|
| Shop by Category |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Top Sellers | |  | Swiss Army Watches | Home » » » Citizen Men's BL8000-03A Eco-Drive Calibre 8700 Watch | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | More than just pretty face, the Citizen Eco-Drive Calibre 8700 stainless steel men's watch also has a perpetual calendar that automatically adjusts for odd and even months and leap years through 2100. It features a perfectly round silver-tone stainless steel watch case and bezel that's complemented by a supple black leather strap with crocodile-like texturing. The silvery white dial background is accented by day-of-the-week and 24-hour subdials, as well as a mode subdial that displays the selected function (local time, calendar, alarm). It also offers luminous, black-outlined hands (with seconds hand), a date function at 4 o'clock, and Roman numeral dial markers. Other features includes a dual-time function for tracking a second time zone, scratch resistant mineral crystal with anti-reflective coating, and water resistance to 330 feet (100 meters).
This watch is powered by Citizen's unique Eco-Drive, which absorbs sunlight and any artificial light through the crystal and dial to recharge the watch continuously. With regular exposure to light, the Eco-Drive continuously recharges itself for a lifetime of use. This watch's Eco-Drive provides a 180-day power reserve, and it can be recharged with just 4 hours of exposure to light. Summary of Features: - Retrograde perpetual calendar
- Alarm
- Dual time
- Non-reflective mineral crystal
- Month-Day-Date functions
- 12/24 hour time
- Screw-back case
| | | Features: | |
• Light powered Eco-Drive Caliber E870 Japanese-quartz movement; charges in natural sunlight or indoor light
• Max power reserve: 180 days; low charge warning: 3 days; charge time from stop state to max charge
• Durable, hardened non-reflective mineral crystal; case diameter: 40mm; Retrograde perpetual calendar function; alarm function; dual-time function with 24-hour sub dial
• Stainless-steel case; white dial; month-day-and-date function: day indicator between 2 and three o'clock, date function at 4 o'clock; screw-back case
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.12 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.12 inches | | Product Height:
| 5.12 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 4.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 53 reviews |
| | | Watch Information: | | | Crystal Material:
| Mineral | | Clasp:
| deployment-buckle | | Case Diameter:
| 42 unknown-units | | Case Thickness:
| 10 unknown-units | | Case Material:
| stainless-steel | | Band Material:
| leather-pig-skin | | Bezel Material:
| stainless-steel | | Dial Color:
| white | | Movement:
| japanese-quartz | | Calendar:
| perpetual-calendar | | Water Resistance Depth:
| 330 feet |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
 ( 53 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
50 of 50 found the following review helpful:
 Amazing functionality but with some ease of use issuesApr 13, 2006
By Harvey S. Liszt
A very very precise perpetual solar powered timepiece capable of tracking the time in two zones (you toggle between locations using the crown), pretty thin, at a great street price. The hands have nice night time illumination. The leather strap and deployant buckle are pretty plush. Some of the functionality is hard to use and there is a cheap look to the metal bezel (which marks easily; the glass seems tough enough).
This thing is really a time computer instead of a watch; when you change modes, the hands change function in such a way that to get back to the time you must be accessing a computer memory. Also, it has the cute (really) habit of napping when it has been in the dark for some long time. Then when you look at it, it senses light, wakes up and the second hand moves madly to catch up.
The crown:
It is way too easy to pull the crown out two stops into the setting mode, which could cost you the correct time, instead of one stop into the position where you can change modes.
The alarm:
To see what at time the alarm is set, you change to the alarm mode and it may take (really) a minute or more while the hands move to show that time (the minute hand actually goes round and round as the hour hand advances ... its a 24 hour alarm which is very nice, there's a separate indicator keeping track of 24 hour time). Then the same thing in the other direction when you need
the time again. The alarm is very very dim, I would not trust it to wake me up. When the watch is in the calendar mode where the second hand shows the month there is no way to see whether the alarm is on (that hand can only be used to show the number of years to the next leap year ... likewise when it shows whether the alarm is on, it can't access that leap-year function).
The second time zone:
Quite easy to use, its synched to the main time in hour increments. Just don't go to Teheran or any other place where time isn't on the hour, that isn't possible without resetting the main watch time. There's a 2ndary dial which tells you whether the 12 hour hands are pointed to am or pm in either time zone.
And it may take a long time to move to the 2nd time, if you need to check that, see the comments on checking the alarm time.
bottom line: the gaffes probably stand out more just because the good parts are so good. Its almost a perpetual motion machine!
36 of 36 found the following review helpful:
 Very impressedJul 06, 2006
By Jacob Wertzberger
I have owned this watch for nearly two years. The features and functionality are well balanced. The solar panel rarely sees daylight from underneath my shirt sleeves, yet the battery has never depleted. The leather wristband is comfortable and shows very little wear. After years of use, my only complaint is that the metal is very easily scratched. Fortunately, the crystal/glass has remained flawless. I have had many people comment on the beauty of this watch. I will only buy citizen after owning this enjoyable timepiece.
Update: November 14, 2007.
The watch is holding up well as the 5-year warranty comes to an end. It took over 4 years of wearing the watch nearly every day for the first scratches on the glass to appear. The wristband shows minimal wear, and the clasp has not given me any troubles. Still very happy with my purchase!
24 of 25 found the following review helpful:
What a great watch!!Oct 22, 2005
By Compaeus
What a fantastic piece of craftmanship. I have had mine for a few months now. Could not be happier. It is powered by any light with a power reserve of more than a year. No more batteries ever. It has all the appeal of an analog watch, with a beatiful classic design without the annoying need to correct the date for odd/even months. It will even correct itself for leap years. Besides date/day of week, it has alarm (soft, not the best if you are a deep sleeper, but useful nonetheless), calendar (showing the month) and dual time zone.
All that plus the Citizen tradition of quality backed by a 5 yr warranty. What else would you want?
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Flash for not much cash!Jan 28, 2008
By Scott H.
I just got this watch, and it's hard to take my eyes off it. I looked at the Calibre 8700 with the blue dial and stainless strap (which a Citizen rep told me is one of their most popular models) but really found the white dial and silver accents, very striking in this model. And I like how the band sets off the face.
I really looked at every Citizen watch on their website, and kept coming back to this one!! The watch is very nice in person, the dial has some detail to it, so it catches the light especially with the silver accents.
As mentioned in other reviews, there are four basic modes that you can switch to:
1. Time
2. Calendar
3. Local Time (i.e. time zone #2)
4. Alarm
since it's not a digital watch (and we don't want it to be since it looks great as an analog!) the hands have to show you all the stuff. So if the Time is set to 3p and you are traveling and are in Singapore where it's 3a, then when you switch the modes, it's going to spin the hands around for 12 hours to show you. This is not good if you want to check and see what time it is 'back home' but is great if you travel, and don't want to keep resetting your watch. When you get back home, just change the dial back to Time and you're back in business.
There are three dials on the watch, in addition to the main hour/min hands, one is a 24 hour dial, with an 'hour' hand that points to the corresponding time in 24 hour mode. Basically this will help you distinguish AM and PM times on the dial, and is important when using the local time (i.e. time zone #2) and alarm modes to keep AM and PM straight.
Next there is the mode dial that points to TME, CAL, LTM, or ALM to let you know what mode you are in (time, calendar, local time, alarm). And lastly there is a dial that points to the day of the week, can let you know if the alarm is set or not, and can also let you know if this is a leap year, or how many years it's been since a leap year ;)
The watch also has a day of the month indicator at the 4 o'clock position, and this is a perpetual calendar, so regardless of 30, 31, or 29 days in the month, it will always be right!
As mentioned earlier, the watch has an energy saving feature which, when in the dark for about 30 minutes and not getting enough light to charge the watch, will stop the second hand at 0(12) to save energy. When light hits the dial, it will move the second hand rapidly to where it should be :)
I will add that yes, this is a cool watch with lots of cool features, and you might have to do a bit of reading to figure them all out if you want to use them, but basically Citizen tries to make that as easy as possible. They give a detailed instruction book, they give interactive lessons on a free CD that comes with the watch, and you can go on their website and they will visually demonstrate the features to you too! What more can you ask for?
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Amazing watch - uncomfortable clasp (leather bracelet model)Mar 28, 2009
By Dimitri
First, about the watch: I absolutely love it. Nothing bad to say at all, except maybe if you frequently need to set the alarm, it can become somewhat annoying. When setting the alarm, the hands don't just move directly to the hour and minute of the alarm time, but go round and round counting out the minutes and hours. Also, if you don't care what time the alarm was previously set to but just want to change it, you still have to wait until it gets to the previously set alarm time before it will let you adjust it. Since I plan to use the alarm infrequently, it's no big deal and kinda fun to watch.
Now, to the strap: I bought this watch with a leather strap to keep the watch as light and comfortable as possible. The strap is beautifully made of rich patterned leather, and it's definitely much lighter than the steel bracelet. However, the deployment clasp on the strap was not well thought-out. There are sharp corners everywhere: two on each end of the clasp, and also on the release buttons in the middle. In addition, the ends of the clasp turn up sharply, which means at least one side is likely to cut into your wrist all the time. This is particularly problematic when your wrist is resting on a surface and the weight of the arm rests on the sharp points. (Others with different diameter wrists may have a different experience).
The solution: I closed one side of the clasp at a time and put that side only into a vise (after wrapping it in thick paper to avoid scratches). By slowly tightening the vise, I was able to take most of the curve out of the clasp. The entire process took maybe 5 minutes. The clasp is immeasurably more comfortable now, and I'm finally 100% satisfied with the watch. Thought I'd share this strategy with anyone who might run into the same problem!
See all 53 customer reviews on Amazon.com
| | |
|
