The Calibre 8651 watch, true to Citizen’s Eco-Drive line, constantly recharges its battery by absorbing sunlight through the crystal and dial, taking just 4 hours to complete recharge.  It also has a 180 day power reserve.  A fluorescent desk lamp can also be used to rechage any Eco-Drive watch.

After being fully charged, the Calibre 8651 can run up to 5 years.  It will accurately track the moon through it’s 29.5 day cycle.  For casual day to day wear or for a professional business appearance, the Citizen Men’s Calibre 8651 watch is a great choice.

The Invicta Men’s Automatic Pro Diver S2 watch has luminous hour, minute, and second hands, as well as a sweeping second hand.  It is powered by automatic movement, which eliminates the need for winding the Pro Diver S2.  It’s classic looking with a good weight to it, for a great price, and is known for being mistaken for a Rolex Submariner.

This handsome and rugged watch boosts precise Swiss construction.  With a perfect public image, the Automatic Pro Diver S2 is one of the best selling and highest reviewed men’s watches to this date.

The Casio G Shock Atomic Solar Watch is the type of watch that you can wear everywhere, doing everything – from working on the car, to scuba diving, gardening, construction, landscaping, you name it, it can take a beating.  All of this for a very affordable price makes for one great handy-man watch.

Skagen prices their wrist watches very competitively.  Their Men’s Titanium watch is their premier line, featuring a stainless steel mesh wrist band.

1. Keep your watch away from strong electrical currents.  Household appliances are unlikely to negatively effect your wrist watch, but stronger electrical currents or magnetic fields have the potential to mess up your watch’s internal workings.
2. Do not let your watch come into contact with chemicals.  This is pretty obvious, but if chemicals get onto or into your watch it will cause corrosion and discoloration.
3. Trying to keep your watch away from sudden shocks.  All watches are shock resistant, but to varying degrees.  Usually your watch manual will specify how much of a shock your watch can handle.  This is particularly important if you work in such a field like construction.
4. Avoid extreme temperatures.  Extreme heat will shorten the battery life of your watch, while extreme cold can actually stop the watch hands from moving.
5. Just because your watch is water resistant doesn’t mean that you should shower with it on.  While all water resistant wrist watches can be showered with, it is a better idea not to do so.  While you’re washing your watch will getting roughed around a little bit, increasing the likelihood of water or moisture getting underneath of the dial.
6. Cleaning your watch regularly (via instructions provided) only takes a couple of minutes and will improve its lifespan and appearance.
7. Store your watch in soft cloth or something similar while its not on your wrist.  This will keep it free from dust and clean.

Myth 1: You can take a shower or swim in the pool or ocean with your watch crown open

If your watch crown is open and you expose it to water, then moisture will develop internally.  At this point, the only remmedy is to take your watch to a jeweler and have it completely dissembled, cleaned, and dried, which is expensive.  You should never expose your watch to water while the crown is open.

Myth 2: Dropping a watch that contains a sapphire crystal will not damage it

This is also false.  Dropping a watch that is powered by a sapphire crystal will most likely shatter the crystal, thus rendering your watch useless.  The crystal would then have to be replaced, which is also an expensive task.  Try not to drop any watch on the floor, even if the watch does not use a sapphire crystal.

Myth 3: My watch is perfectly accurate

While we would all like to believe that our watch is a perfectly accurate time keeper, the truth of the matter is that all watches will gain or lose a couple of seconds a month – approximately 30 to 60 seconds a month.  The higher quality your watch is, the less time it is likely to lose.

Myth 4: When I bought my watch I was told that I wouldn’t need to service it

A lot of retailers will attempt to sell you a watch by promising you that it doesn’t need servicing, thus keeping the price down.  However, all automatic wrist watches should be serviced once every 3 to 5 years.  Doing so will increase its lifespan and ability to accurately keep time.

Myth 5: You can’t wind an automatic watch

Yes, you can manually wind an automatic watch, and it is recommend to this this once every other week.  Doing so will keep the watch more accurate over extended periods of time.