Top 10 Best Affordable Solar Watches! $75 - $500!

1. Tissot T-Touch

2. Seiko 'ARNIE'

3. Casio G5600UE

4. Timex Expedition North Scout

5. Citizen BN015

6. Seiko 'Speedtimer'

7. Orient Mako Chrono

8. Citizen AW5000

9. Casio GAB2100

10. Seiko 'Sumo' GMT

11. Casio Oceanus S100/T200

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[Zeushasarrived-yfyo]

I'm glad you made this video to bring attention to solar watches. My first solar watch is a Citizen Eco-drive that I bought 10+ years ago and still going strong. I've never had to bring it in to service and it still runs. I've been a fan of Eco-drive and solar watches ever since. There is a lot of value to never having to worry about a battery change.

[iansclone]

Love this topic! I cannot speak highly enough about my Citizen CA7045-14E. I needed a watch to wear at my work in a kitchen. Chronograph to time cook cycles, date for product labeling, 100m WR. Switched to a canvas strap and it wears/functions wonderfully.

[andrewd]

A couple of years ago Jody, I bought the standard black Casioak. Then because of you, yep, I then bought the yellow solar powered version. As I wanted this for work in a quite dirty environment, the yellow wasn’t gonna cut it. So I swapped the solar version from the yellow case into the standard black version case & 🤩🥰👍🏼👌🏼

[bikesnab]

Jody my collection is 90 % solar! My thoughts were about the same as your opening. Absolutely love your output. Keep up the awesome work and thank you

[StevePilgrim]

Great list. At age 70 & returning to watch wearing (collecting?), I have been tempted by "smart" watches. However, these low-maintenance, accurate solar watches will start my new buying spree. Thanks for your video & clear explanations!

[colmfarrell]

I have the orient mako panda chronograph and absolutely love it. Wears really nicely on my small wrist and works well on loads of strap options. Would highly recommend to anyone that's looking for a good affordable chronograph.

[TLW]

LOVE SOLARS!!! Jody: On the G5600 don't forget the automatic backlight function. Your video showed A.EL towards the bottom right on the watch screen. You press the light button and hold it down until you see that designation, and then in the dark you tilt your wrist towards you and the backlight comes on automatically without pushing the button. VERY SECRET AGENT. And the battery won't die down from overuse of this function due to the solar recharge aspect.

[caseydarrah]

I'd give some love to the Casio GWM5610 as well. All the toughness of the standard square G, but solar, atomic clock, world timer, the works. Literally everything you need in a watch. Mine rapidly became my outdoor and travel watch.

[xniorvox]

I would add the Citizen Nighthawk to the list. It truly is an excellent watch with way better quality than you would expect for the price. And Eco-Drive technology is just a class of its own. Always reliable, always does the job.

[ajh]

Honorable mention of vaer. Dive and field watches with solar options for days.

[ImDavidJames]

100% with you Jody.
Im done with autos

When you get to a good few in the collection you realise they are silly.
I have a seiko solar and the T touch
They are always ready to go.
But I still always pick the aerospace.
Watch collecting is weird

[duhk]

Great topic and great shirt!
Recently my daily G Shock from 2007 resin band finally wore out. Since it was an integrated band with special shape I couldn't just swap bands and decided to go solar exactly like the beginning of the video.
Ended up with the GW-B5600 solar square. Multiband 6, Bluetooth, Solar square on the fantastic combi resin/metal bracelet and can be had in posi or neg display versions. No fuss no muss always accurate solar daily. Around $150 U.S.

[JMJ]

Love the solar watches! I still have a 21 yr old solar gshock that's still going strong, and I've never changed the battery.

[larryfromwisconsin]

I enjoy my automatic watches but I do seem to wear my quartz solar watches more. My ugly but functional Casio Wavecepter Tough Solar actually gets the most wrist time. The World Time and timer functions get a lot of use. My other favorite is my 20 year old Citizen Nighthawk Eco Drive. It did die at about 15 years. The back says "Do not remove. Not consumer serviceable.". But I replaced the capacitor (battery) myself. It's really no different than replacing any other watch battery except the capacitor cost about 10 times that of a battery. I also replaced the scratched mineral crystal with a double domed sapphire crystal. That cost as much as a G Shock watch. But it's beautiful.

[gatlinguts]

I love a good solar watch. I have a bunch and I have plans to buy many more. Your introduction is bang on with my own personal experience. My day-to-day life is too tough for most mechanical watches. The vibration of my motorcycle alone is reason enough not to wear on mechanical watch daily.

[jeanlefranc]

Rocking my fantastic Citizen AQ4091-56L, bought following Jody’s recommendation. Couldn’t be happier with this incredible timepiece.

[vincentneu]

The introduction of the video is spot-on. That what literally exactly my thought which I had before buying my first solar-powered watch last year.

[maxwellpowell]

I have the Arnie tropical lagoon special edition and it's the perfect watch for me as a relatively large man, that's into fitness and in the Navy. Bonus that it's connected to Arnie who's a bad ass lol!! Buy it! You won't regret it!

[khonjel_singh]

Not gonna lie, before I clicked on the video I thought the list'll be full of Citizen and G-shock. Pleasantly surprised to learn about some models I didn't know about. Thanks Jody!

[IRTE]

I got myself the yellow Casio B2100 and just put a black bezel on it and the combi bracelet, nice positive display plus the white hour markers.