Product Review
The Citizen Eco-Drive Aqualand stainless steel men's chronograph watch will make a powerful statement when worn with both business and casual dress, but it's made to take the punishment of deep-water diving with its 660 feet (200 meters) water resistance. It also features a depth sensor that provides an accurate reading to 125 feet and will also record your maximum depth into memory.
This watch has a large, round silver stainless steel watch case--which measures 41mm (1.59 inches) wide and 14mm (0.56 inches) deep--that's topped by a unidirectional rotating bezel with black engraved elapsed time markings and gold-tone highlights. The black dial background features three subdials (for the 50-minute chronograph, 24-hour display, and seconds), large luminous dial markers, luminous white-tipped hands (with red seconds hand). It's completed by a comfortable, durable rubber strap. Other features include a date display at 3 o'clock, scratch resistant mineral crystal with anti-reflective coating, and screw-back case, screw-down crown.
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 60-day power reserve, and it can be recharged with just 2 hours of exposure to light.
Summary of Features: - Depth display to 125 feet
- Maximum depth memory
- Unidirectional rotating elapsed-time bezel
- 50-minute chronograph
- 12/24 hour time
- Screw-back case and screw-down crown
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(17 customer reviews) 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Solid dive watch and fun gadget,
January 7, 2010 The Clock - See all my reviews
This review is from: Citizen Men's BJ2004-08E Eco-Drive Aqualand Two-Tone Black Rubber Strap Dive Watch (Watch)
This is the second Citizen Eco-Drive watch I have purchased, having been very pleased with my Caliber 2100. I was looking for a nice dive watch with an analogue dial, a rotating bezel, and good luminosity. I have a fondness for mechanical watches, but for sport diving I wanted a cool gadget with a depth guage to use as a back-up, and those only come in electronic watches. Since I already trusted Citizen's workmanship and design, I picked this one out.
The watch has a tough stainless steel case which is large enough to be a good dive watch but not as ridiculously large as some of the ugly watches on the market. The case is not very thin, but because of the design with its beveled case back and bezel ring, it feels thin and it's not a problem putting my hand in my pocket. The two-tone rotating bezel has a solid, snappy feel to it, but is not too tight to turn with dive gloves on. The function buttons should not be pushed under water, but there is no reason to as the depth...Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Good watch, could be better.,
December 22, 2010 RobertSubnet - See all my reviews
This review is from: Citizen Men's BJ2004-08E Eco-Drive Aqualand Two-Tone Black Rubber Strap Dive Watch (Watch)
I have owned the Eco-Drive Aqualand dive watch for 7 months now. Honestly I am surprised at how favorable the reviews are. This watch has a number of shortcomings.
The left sub-dial is a 24 hour dial. This is a useless function and a complete waste of dial "real estate". Not only is the dial hard to read, it is not connected with the chronograph. (More on that below). If 24 hour ("Military") time is important to you, you are going to make the effort to learn it without needing to look at a sub dial. If you are like me and only use 24 hour time occasionally, it is much easier on the eyes to count the hours on the main dial rather than use the sub.
The chronograph is only a 50 minute chrono. Who came up with this? Industry standard is an hour. Also, as has been mentioned, to activate the chrono, you have to hold down the lower right pusher. The manual says for two seconds. I have found it takes up to 5 seconds and sometimes multiple attempts for the chronograph to...Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
nice watch,
February 9, 2009 R. Heiser (Oxford, MI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Citizen Men's BJ2004-08E Eco-Drive Aqualand Two-Tone Black Rubber Strap Dive Watch (Watch)
only had it for a short time, but it seems like a great watch. chronograph is only in min/sec increments (no tenths), so if you're looking for that you'll be disappointed. stays at the "LV1" charge-level most of the time, but will sneak up to "LV2" on a sunny day. haven't used the dive function (and don't really plan to). seconds hand is kinda small, but the 24-hr hand is a nice touch. bought this watch to replace my last citizen watch, which i purchased in january 1988 and finally retired it in march 2008, so i hope this one will last as long.
