Getting the Most From Your Solar Powered Watch
One of the main reasons why people complain about not getting longevity out of their solar powered watches is simply because it was never charged satisfactorily over the years. For example: This could mean only getting light from indoor sources in an office environment. It's probably not necessary to be blasting your solar watch day in a day out with full sunlight (albeit this will produce the fastest charging, according to at least CASIO and Citizen (and probably SEIKO as well) however, several minutes of full sun per day
will never go astray (dependent upon what functions are used on the watch if not solely analogue).
Because many solar watches do not have any way for a user to determine what charge state their watch is in, for such watches it is important to follow some sort of regime, for many years of trouble free operation IMHO and experience. Of course those who own watches with some sort of indicators such as in CASIO solar watches and or such tanks of watches from Citizen with a "fuel gauge"
one can sort of have an idea of the charge state at any given moment. Although in the case of the latter, be aware these gauges are NOT liner in their representation of charge state of the lithium titanium power source.
Remember when in doubt follow your instruction manuals advice!
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