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Powered it up in the light and hey presto it works pretty well I have to admit.

Citizen EcoDrive Calibre 9000 – on the wrist – looking good. But, after a bit of fiddling around, I got there in the end. Very fortunate I did get the instructions, because I had to do a full reset on the various hands and sub-dial indications, before it even considered letting me set or adjust anything. However, it’s one of those busy dial watches, not my preference these days – though in saying that, I do have a lovely old Citizen Skyhawk AT EcoDrive with probably the BEST busy dial ever which is also one of the easiest watches to read.īut I see it has got nice large hour and minute hands, good lume, so maybe the basics are enough for me – I note too it has a pointer Date indication, so I’ll just have to see how I get on. Now, whether I wear it myself is open to question, but who knows – if I can get it up and running, I might well give it a try. Unless it’s your daily beater, you soon forget how it works, the instructions are long gone and so is the inclination to wear it.įortunately, the instructions for most Citizen Watches are online somewhere and whilst my benefactor wasn’t into computers and no booklet was with it, I duly downloaded one, because it certainly seemed tricky. Citizen Minute Repeater, Eco Drive, Calibre 9000Īnd that’s the problem with these multi-feature watches. Although not a collector, like me, he was like me, in that I do have a few complicated watches and within a very short time scale, lose interest in them – basically too old for novelties and the eyesight not as good anyway, so busy dials don’t do it for me anymore. This model had quite a few complications, so interesting to see how I get on with it. Quite obvious that he rarely if ever wore it, as I know his daily beater was a relatively rare Heuer Camaro 7743, so the settings were all over the place and being a solar EcoDrive model and stuck in a drawer for years, I wondered if it would even work.īut not being worn it’s actually in pretty fair condition and is the Citizen Eco-Drive Minute Repeater Calibre 9000 model. Sad way to get something I suppose, but he knew I was into watches, so here we are. This watch was one of a few passed on to me as the result of a friend passing.