I've (we've all) wasted tens of thousands of dollars..
The title is in jest of course, but this is my Citizen Nighthawk - Bought in 2007 for $175 on eBay. Eco-drive means no battery changes for 17 years and still ticking.. it's been diving (properly) in Thailand and is doing pool duty in Mexico right now.. st...
Thank you both - this one has 200M WR and I've got even older ECO-Drives in the collection still going strong..
I'll admit I think it's been at least 3 years since I've worn this.. Grabbed it as I was headed out the door, figured since it cost less than a service on other watches it's about as carefree a watch as I could bring along. It's great to reconnect with it...
Money well spent!
The money save could be used for the nice vacation like those in your pics.
I agree, I've got two G-Shocks that I keep for that very reason:
No maintenance, no worry, can be taken really anywhere. And they have functions like alarms, chronograph, countdown, multi timezones, etc. that make a phone redundant. Yours have been tempting me for a while, but I never pulled the trigger. GMT function i...
My Eco-Drive is lovely
Except for the extremely sad excuse of a bracelet, I love everything about it — titanium, solar, accurate enough, handsome. And also $175 in 2013, from a pal. ...
This cost me nothing many years ago. Discovered working in 10' of water at Corral Bay, Cyprus . . . .
. . . where it had been lying long enough for the crystal to have been sand-blasted opaque by the undercurrent. It glinted in sunlight catching my eye as I snorkelled above. Since then it is my beach and snorkel watch. Contains two batteries, which last a...