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Best solar powered watches for greener times

Green is the way to go and now you can look for ‘greener times ahead’ by sporting an eco friendly and green watch. You no longer need to worry about your battery weakening, as you can power them with solar energy. Batteries keep getting disposed in the most inappropriate manner and eventually end up overspilling landfills. You can show your responsibility toward the environment by buying yourself a battery free watch. Not only are these solar powered watches eco friendly, they are visually cool too.

Casio Solar Powered Watch

Casio is a very popular name when it comes to electronics and they have been manufacturing solar powered watches for quite a long time now, which are available in the Oceanus and G-Shock series. Casio has recently come out with a new design in its G-Shock series in which the solar panel is located right behind the face of the watch. Casio claims that only 6.2W of solar energy is required by the watch for producing 860,000 movements.

Seiko PV-powered wristwatches

Seiko Watch Corp has launched its latest ‘Hybrid’ series of eco friendly watches that are powered via solar panels. The solar cells have been camouflaged appropriately by the help of colored resin plates, which in fact, add more color and glamour to the watch. This design has attracted many youthful consumers, who are keen to go green by using eco friendly gadgets. Seiko would be launching other models of the PV powered watches and would be pricing them between $215- $285. This watch can run for six months after being fully charged.

Casio atomic solar powered chronograph watch

Now you no longer need to complain about the lack visual appeal in solar powered watches, as the Casio Oceanus OCWM800TBA-1A is an amazingly chic design and is also touted as the first “atomic solar powered” chronograph watch that gives you the cool quotient besides being eco friendly. Priced at a whopping $900, this battery free watch is amazingly beautiful.

Nixon’s solar watch

Nixon has also come out with its latest range of eco friendly watches called ‘Volta’ that uses solar energy for powering the gadget. The watch has a semi transparent dial so as to enable sunlight to pass across to the solar panels located underneath for generating energy. The best feature of this watch is that you do not need to stand in the sun to recharge the watch because any kind of light is adequate for recharging the watch.

Solar-Powered Watches by Tocs

Nixon has also come out with its latest range of eco friendly watches called ‘Volta’ that uses solar energy for powering the gadget. The watch has a semi transparent dial so as to enable sunlight to pass across to the solar panels located underneath for generating energy. The best feature of this watch is that you do not need to stand in the sun to recharge the watch because any kind of light is adequate for recharging the watch.

Freestyle’s solar-powered watch

Freestyle has come out with a solar powered watch, which is the first of its kind as it can run for an entire year with one single charge. Christened as ‘The Boiler’, this watch also features an indicator that keeps you aware of the power that is remaining and also has a power saving mechanism for energy efficiency. This super efficient watch costs $115, which is a great price for all the features it contains.

Mechanical watch

Cabestan Watches has launched an innovative timepiece called ‘Sol Invictus’ that is powered by onboard solar panels that are designed for working in low luminosity. This mechanical watch combines the unique drums and vertical tourbillon and chain and fusée from the WTV and has combined them an innovative technique that produces and treats silicium crystals for making the optimum use of solar cells. The Sol Invictus is the first mechanical timepiece that is powered by solar energy. The rechargeable lithium ion batteries and motors are located beneath the solar cells. This timepiece would cost a whopping $560,000, as it is based on a 19th century design by the scientist Léon Foucault.

Casio’s G-Shock Atomic Solar Watch

Casio has been manufacturing solar powered watches for quite some time, and its G-Shock time piece is another feather added to their cap. This eco friendly solar powered watch gives accurate time as it receives time calibration radio signals. This watch has various features such as an auto calender, an hourly time signal, a daily alarm, a 1/100 second stopwatch, an auto LED light along with afterglow. Apart from these regular features, it also follows the world time of thirty cities and also has a high water resistance of 200m.

Sun powered analog watch

This wristwatch called the ‘Sun powered analog watch’ is another classy design that has a brown leather band and a stainless steel dial that has a solar cell embedded inside. This watch also has a high water resistance of 330 feet, apart from being battery free.

Diana solar powered watch

Diana, is another eco friendly and sustainable watch that is beautifully crafted by Tommaso Ceschi who works as a senior designer and researcher in Milan, Italy. The solar powered watch has a rich and classic look and doesn’t contain the conventional minutes hand in the dial. The hour hand is the only time indicator, which is unconventionally placed at the top of the dial, making it look like the globe with latitude and longitude lines running across the number 1 to 12.

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