MA0804-EA

Operation Guide 3136

About This Manual

Depending on the model of your watch, display text appears either as dark figures on a light background or

light figures on a dark background. All sample displays in this manual are shown using dark figures on a light background.

Button operations are indicated using the letters shown in the illustration.

Each section of this manual provides you with the information you need to perform operations in each mode. Further details and technical information can be found in the “Reference” section.

General Guide

Press C to change from mode to mode.

In any mode (except when a setting screen is on the display), press B to illuminate the display for about two seconds.

Timekeeping Mode

World Time Mode

Press .

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

If you do not perform any operation for a few minutes in the Alarm Mode, the watch reverts to the normal timekeeping screen automatically.

Alarm Mode

 

Stopwatch Mode

 

Countdown

 

 

 

 

Timer Mode

 

 

 

 

 

Timekeeping

World Time

Month – Day

Day of week

PM indicator

Hour : Minutes Seconds

To set the time and date

Use the Timekeeping Mode to set and view the current time and date.

Pressing Ain the Timekeeping Mode will display the currently selected Home City.

Press Dto toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour formats.

With 12-hour format, times between midnight and noon are indicated by AM, while times between noon and midnight are indicated by PM.

The AM and PM indicators do not appear when you are using 24-hour format.

Mode indicator

City code

Current time in the zone of the selected city code

World Time shows the current time in 30 cities (29 time zones) around the world.

All of the operations in this section are performed in the World Time Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

To view the time in another city code

In the World Time Mode, press D to scroll through city codes (time zones).

For full information about city codes, see the “City Code Table”.

If the current time shown for a city is wrong, check your Timekeeping Mode time and Home City code settings and make the necessary changes.

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

2.Press Cto move the flashing in the sequence shown below.

 

 

Seconds

 

 

 

DST

 

 

 

City code

 

 

Hour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day

 

 

 

Month

 

 

 

Year

 

 

 

Minutes

 

3.While the seconds setting is selected (flashing), press D to reset it to 00. If you press D 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* setting is selected (DST on indicator is flashing), press D to toggle it on (On) and off (OF).

The DST on/off setting you select for the Timekeeping Mode affects the World Time Mode.

While the city code setting is selected, use D and B to scroll through the available codes until the one you want to use as your home time city is displayed.

For full information on city codes, see the “City Code Table”.

4.While any other setting is selected (flashing), press Dto increase it or press B to decrease it. Holding down Dor B scrolls at high speed.

5.Press Ato exit the setting screen.

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

The date can be set within the range of January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2099.

The watch’s built-in full automatic calendar makes allowances for different month lengths and leap years automatically. Once you set the date, there should be no reason to change it except after replacement of the watch’s battery.

* See “Daylight Saving Time (DST) Setting” for details about the DST setting.

Backlight Precautions

The backlight uses an EL (electro-luminescent) panel that causes the entire display to glow for easy reading in the dark. In any mode (except when a setting screen is on the display), press B to illuminate the display for about two seconds.

The electro-luminescent panel that provides illumination loses power after very long use.

The illumination provided by the backlight may be hard to see when viewed under direct sunlight.

The watch may emit an audible sound whenever the display is illuminated. This is due to vibration of the EL panel used for illumination, and does not indicate malfunction.

The backlight turns off automatically whenever an alarm sounds.

Frequent use of the backlight shortens the battery life.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) Setting

Daylight Saving Time (summer time) advances the time setting by one hour from Standard Time. Remember that not all countries or even local areas use Daylight Saving Time.

To toggle a city code time between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time

DST indicator

1. In the World Time Mode, use D to display the city code

(time zone) whose Standard Time/Daylight Saving Time

 

setting you want to change.

 

2. Hold down Afor about one second to toggle between

 

Daylight Saving Time (DST indicator displayed) and

 

Standard Time (DST indicator not displayed).

The DST indicator will appear on the display whenever you display a city code for which Daylight Saving Time is turned on.

Note that the DST/Standard Time setting affects only the currently displayed city code. Other city codes are not affected.

Alarms

Mode indicator

You can set five independent Daily Alarms. When an

alarm is turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm

 

 

 

 

time is reached.

 

 

 

 

You can turn on an Hourly Time Signal that causes the

 

 

 

 

watch to beep twice every hour on the hour.

 

 

 

 

There are six screens in the Alarm Mode. Five are for

 

 

 

 

daily alarms (indicated by numbers from x1 through

 

 

 

 

x5), and one is for the Hourly Time Signal (indicated by

 

 

 

 

SIG).

Alarm time

 

 

 

All of the operations in this section are performed in the

(Hour : Minutes)

 

Alarm Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

 

Alarm

number

 

1