Citizen Men's BM8290-05E Eco-Drive Titanium Watch

 (35 customer reviews)

I bought this watch about 2.5 years ago. The watch keeps excellent time and has been solid. However, I am on my second band for this watch. The rubber band just does not hold up. I use it alot in and around water maybe this has something to do with it. For a tight budget this is a good watch, however I would spend a little more for another Citizen watch with a Stainless watch band. The way this watch is designed you need the Citizen Band. It does not look right with an off the shelf band. By the way the bands only cost around 32.00. However if you do the math and get a watch with a good band up front you will come out ahead.

I was looking for a sports watch that was affordable yet reliable. I read reviews and became very interested in the Citizen Dive Watches. I thought they looked cool, had easily readable faces, could probably take a bit of a beating and the Citizen name is reputable. But, from what I read on the web, it seemed as though the older Citizen's were somewhat more reliable than the eco-drive watches. Eco-drive reviews circa 2000-2001 were poor, the wathces were known to fail in a short period of time or to have not worked at all (out of the box). Again, these are web reviews I read.

I found a great price on the 180 WR100 ($125 shipped) and decided to take a chance. I'm not a diver but I do like water sports and the 100M limit seemed sufficient for my needs.

Out of the box, the watch was running, I had a bit of a time setting the weekday and date functions, they are in french and in english. Yes, you could have the days of the week come up in french if you...Read more

I have four Citizen Eco-Drive watches: two titanium, a Skyhawk and a Perpetual Calendar, a 300M Professional Diver, and a Calibre 6000 dress watch; listed from oldest (4 years) to newest (3 days). I have never had a single moment's problem from any of the older watches (the Perpetual Calendar is a year old). I've recommended them to friends and coworkers, and have had several buy them (and thank me afterward).

The advantage of not having to replace batteries every year or two is just a bonus to these watches. They are very accurate and very attractive.

I like to joke that if the sun were to die tomorrow, and all life on Earth with it, my Skyhawk would still be keeping time for 9 months.. :-)

I highly recommend these watches.