USER’S GUIDE 2255/2461/2623

General Guide

•Press C to change from mode to mode.

•Pressing E in any mode besides the Alarm Mode illuminates the display for about three seconds. The backlight is disabled while a setting screen is on the display.

Timekeeping Mode

Day Counter Mode

Press C.

•If you do not perform any operation for a few minutes while a setting screen (with flashing digits) is on the display, the watch automatically exits the setting screen.

•If you do not perform any operation for a few minutes in any mode besides Stop- watch Mode, the watch automatically reverts to the normal timekeeping screen.

Alarm Mode

 

Stopwatch Mode

 

Memo Mode

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timekeeping Mode

MonthDay

Day of week

Hour Seconds

Minutes

PM indicator

DST indicator 2

Press D to toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour time- keeping.

•With 12-hour timekeeping, times between midnight and noon are indicated by A (am), while times between noon and midnight are indicated by P (pm).

•The A and P indicators do not appear for 24-hour time- keeping.

•Pressing Bplays a melody. To stop a playing melody, press any button besides E.

•Special melodies play each year on January 1 and De- cember 25.

•Pressing E while a melody is playing toggles the dis- play between an animated character and the name of the melody.

•Press E to illuminate the display for about three sec- onds.

4.After you make the settings you want, press A to exit the setting screen.

• The day of the week is automatically set in accordance with the date.

• The date can be set within the range of January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2039.

• The watch’s built-in full automatic calendar automatically makes allowances for dif- ferent month lengths and leap years.

Once you set the date, there should be no reason to change it except after the replacement of the watch’s battery.

About the Backlight

Pressing E in any mode besides the Alarm Mode illuminates the display for about three seconds. The backlight is disabled while a setting screen is on the display.

• The backlight of this watch employs an electro-luminescent (EL) light, which loses

its illumination power after very long term use.

• Frequent use of the backlight shortens battery life.

• The illumination provided by the backlight may be hard to see when viewed under

direct sunlight.

• The backlight automatically turns off an alarm sounds.

Timekeeping Mode Settings

In addition to settings for the current time and date, the Timekeeping Mode setting screen also lets you turn button tones and melody play on and off, adjust tones and melody volume, and adjust display contrast.

To make Timekeeping Mode settings

1.While in the Timekeeping Mode, hold down Auntil the second’s digits flash on the display, indicating the setting screen.

2.Press C to move the flashing in the sequence shown below. Press E to move the flashing in the opposite direction.

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Seconds

 

 

 

 

 

DST

 

 

 

 

 

Hour

 

 

 

Minutes

 

 

 

Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contrast

 

 

 

 

 

Volume

 

 

 

 

 

Sound

 

 

 

Day

 

 

 

Month

(CNT)

 

 

 

 

 

(VOL)

 

 

 

 

 

(SOUND)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The watch emits an audible sound whenever the display is illuminated. This does

not indicate malfunction.

About the animated character

An animated character appears on the display of the watch any time you turn on the EL backlight after December 25 (2000 for Module 2255; 2001 for Module 2461; 2002 for Module 2623). No animated character appears before then.

Day Counter Mode

Mode indicator

Text

DST indicator 1

DST indicator 2

3.While the second’s setting is selected (flashing), press D or B to reset it to 00.

•If you press Dor B while the seconds setting is in the range of 30 to 59, the seconds are reset to 00 and 1 is added to the minutes. If the seconds setting is in the range of 00 to 29, the minutes count is unchanged.

•While the DST∗ (Daylight Saving Time) setting is se- lected, press D or B to toggle it on and off.

•DST indicator 1 is displayed in the Timekeeping Mode setting screen only when the DST setting is selected. It shows ON when the DST setting is on, and OFF when the DST setting is off.

•DST indicator 2 is displayed in the Timekeeping Mode,

Day Counter Mode and Alarm Mode when the DST setting is turned on.

∗Daylight Saving Time (DST), which is also sometimes called “summer time” advances the time for one hour, as is the custom in some areas during the summer. Remember that not all countries or even local areas use Daylight Saving Time.

Year

Month Target Date

Day

Day counter record number

Number of days

DAYS indicator

The Day Counter Mode lets you count the number of days from the Timekeeping Mode’s current date to a specific target date.

• There are five Day Counter records, each of which can be assigned up to 12 char-

acters of text and a target date.

• When a target date is reached, the DAYS indicator flashes on the display in the

Timekeeping Mode. The DAYS indicator also flashes in the Day Counter Mode

when the screen for the target date is on the display.

• The DAYS indicator flashes on the target date each year, regardless of the year

setting of the target date.

• The initial default date for a Day Counter record is 2001/1/1, and the text area

•While the SOUND (button tones) setting is selected, press D or B to turn the beep and musical tone on and off, as shown below.

•Changing the SOUND also changes the Hourly Time Signal tones.

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Beep

Musical tone

Off

•While the VOL setting is selected, press Dor Bto toggle it between loud and soft.

Press or .

Loud

Soft

•With some models, changing the volume setting affects volume very little.

•While the CNT setting is selected, press D to make the display darker, or B to make it lighter.

•While any other setting is selected (flashing), press D to increase it or B to de- crease it. Holding down either button changes the setting at high speed.

contains all spaces. (All spaces for the text display a series of hyphens “ – – – – – ”.)

Recalling Day Counter Data

In the Day Counter Mode, press Dto scroll through the Day Counter record screens.

•The day count is a negative value whenever the target date comes before the cur- rent date.

To set the target date

1.In the Day Counter Mode, press D to display a record number you want to set.

2.Hold down A until the first (leftmost) text character starts to flash on the display. This indicates the input screen.

3.Press C to move the flashing in the sequence shown below. Press E to move the flashing in the opposite direction.

Press . Press .

Character 1

 

 

 

 

Character 12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Month Year

4.While the flashing is located within the text area, use D or B to scroll through characters at the current location of the flashing. Holding down either button scrolls through characters at high speed.

Press . Press .

Space

 

A to Z

 

 

Punctuation

 

 

Japanese

 

 

 

 

 

Hyphen

 

Numbers

Symbols

 

 

characters

 

 

 

 

∗See the “CHARACTER LIST” for details.

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