Are you sick and tired of having a watch battery go dead, only to find that replacing it is inconvenient? Does the watch wind up in your drawer to never see the light of day again? If this is frequently the case, then it’s time to get into Eco-Drive Watches in Gridley, CA and leave the battery problems behind. An Eco-Drive has no batteries, just a lithium-ion cell that recharges in any light. Yet, this is not the solar-powered watch of yore by any means. Instead, modern design and technology has created a watch that looks great, runs with the utmost of accuracy and never needs to be plugged in or have a battery.
The first watches to run on solar power used a little panel in the dial itself. This was unsightly and the storage cell wasn’t all that reliable. In theory, the concept was a good one. Reality was much different. The Eco-Drive takes this concept further by using a solar cell behind the watch dial to provide power. It’s an ingenious solution to a problem that began when the first watch started to use a removable battery.
All you see when you wear the watch is an elegantly designed face that comes in a standard quartz-style face with just the time and a second hand, or a chronograph face with different readouts. what you don’t see is the fact that the dial is a screen with very tiny holes and a special paint that allows light through. Behind the dial is a solar cell that captures any kind of light and charges the lithium-ion cell to run the watch. No more ever having to put the watch aside for want of a battery ever again. The Eco-Drive just keeps on working, and in a very attractive way.
The Eco-Drive combines form and function in an entirely new manner. Anyone who looks at the watch will never know that it doesn’t have a battery unless you tell them. In turn, you have a watch that you’ll never have to put away, unless you buy a second one and want to switch them out from time to time.
