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Bill D
Posted Jul 3, 2009 2:45 PM
My guess is that it's a kinetic movement most likely made by Seiko. Kinetic watches use the motion of the arm to move a rotor that generates a magnetic charge. It gets stored in what Seiko calls an "Energy Storage Unit" which basically is some solid state circuitry with micro capacitors.
With Seiko, when fully charged and not worn, the watch should go into a sleep mode and hold it's charge for as much as 4 years. It will keep the time while in the sleep mode. Seiko says that with a charge indicator like you have that you push the button when the second hand is at 12 and the second hand will jump and indicate the charge on that scale on the dial.
I have no first hand knowledge of this. This is just from googling kinetic watches.
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