Operation Guide 3237

Alarm Types

The alarm type is determined by the settings you make, as described below.

•Daily alarm

Set the hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound everyday at the time you set.

•Date alarm

Set the month, day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound at the specific time, on the specific date you set.

•1-Month alarm

Set the month, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound everyday at time you set, only during the month you set.

•Monthly alarm

Set the day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound every month at time you set, on the day you set.

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3.Press Cto move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings.

Hour Minutes Month Day

4.While a setting is flashing, press Dto increase it.

•To set an alarm that does not include a month (Daily alarm, Monthly alarm),

set x for the month. Press D until the x mark appears (between 12 and 1) while month setting is flashing.

•To set an alarm that does not include a day (Daily alarm, 1-Month alarm),

set xx for the day. Press Duntil the xx mark appears (between the end of the month and 1) while the day setting is flashing.

•When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time correctly as a.m. or p.m. (P indicator).

5.Press A to exit the setting screen.

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To turn Alarms 2 through 5 and the Hourly Time Signal on and off

Hourly time signal

1. In the Alarm Mode, use Dto select a one-time alarm

(alarm number 2 through 5) or the Hourly Time Signal

on indicator

(:00).

Alarm on indicator

2. Press Ato toggle it on and off.

• The on/off status of Alarms 2 through 5 and the Hourly

 

 

Time Signal is shown by indicators along the bottom of

 

the displays.

 

• The alarm on indicators and Hourly time Signal on

 

indicator are displayed in all modes.

 

• While an alarm is sounding, the applicable alarm on

 

indicator flashes on the display.

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Countdown Timer

To set an alarm time

1. In the Alarm Mode, use Dto scroll through the alarm

screens until the one whose time you want to set is displayed.

Press .

•To set a one-time alarm, display one of the screens indicated by an alarm number from 2 through 5. To set the snooze alarm, display the screen indicated by 1.

2.After you select an alarm, hold down A until the hour setting of the alarm time starts to flash, which indicates the setting screen.

•This operation automatically turns on the alarm.

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Alarm Operation

The alarm tone sounds at the preset time for 10 seconds, regardless of the mode the watch is in. In the case of the snooze alarm, the alarm operation is performed a total of seven times, every five minutes, until you turn the alarm off or change it to a onetime alarm (page E-14).

•To stop the alarm tone after it starts to sound, press any button.

•Performing any one of the following operations during a 5-minute interval between snooze alarms cancels the current snooze alarm operation.

Displaying the Timekeeping Mode setting screen (page E-6) Displaying the alarm 1 setting screen (page E-11)

To test the alarm

•In the Alarm Mode, hold down D to sound the alarm.

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To select the operation of Alarm1

1.In the Alarm Mode, use Dto select Alarm1.

2.Press Ato cycle through the available settings in the sequence shown below.

Snooze on indicator () and Alarm1 on indicator

Press .

One-time

Snooze

Alarm off

alarm on

alarm on

 

•The snooze on indicator () and Alarm1 on indicator are displayed in all modes.

•The snooze on indicator () flashes during the 5-minute intervals between alarms.

•The alarm indicator (Alarm1 on and/or snooze on) flashes while the alarm is sounding.

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• The countdown timer measurement operation continues even if you exit the

Countdown Timer Mode.

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

The countdown timer can be set within a range of one minute to 24 hours. An alarm sounds when the countdown reaches zero.

•You can also select auto-repeat, which automatically restarts the countdown from the original value you set whenever zero is reached.

•All of the operations in this section are performed in the Countdown Timer Mode, which you enter by pressing C (page E-5).

To use the countdown timer

Press Dwhile in the Countdown Timer Mode to start the countdown timer.

• Press Dwhile a countdown operation is in progress to pause it. Press Dagain to

resume the countdown.

• To completely stop a countdown operation, first pause it (by pressing D), and then

press A. This returns the countdown time to its starting value.

To set the countdown start time

1. In the Countdown Timer Mode, hold down Auntil the

hours setting of the countdown start time starts to flash,

which indicates the setting screen.

2. Press Cto move the flashing between the hours and

minutes settings.

3. While a setting is flashing, use Dto increase it.

• To set the starting value of the countdown time to

24 hours, set 0:00.

•When the end of the countdown is reached and auto-repeat is turned off, the alarm sounds for 10 seconds or until you stop it by pressing any button. The countdown time is automatically reset to its starting value after the alarm stops.

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To turn auto-repeat on and off

1. In the Countdown Timer Mode, hold down Auntil the

4. Press Ato exit the setting screen.

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Stopwatch

Auto-repeat indicator

hours setting of the countdown start time starts to flash,

which indicates the setting screen.

2. Press Bto toggle auto-repeat on ( displayed) and

off ( not displayed).

• Note that pressing Bin the above operation also turns on the backlight.

• When the end of the countdown is reached while auto-repeat is on, the alarm sounds, but the countdown restarts from the beginning without stopping. You can stop the countdown by pressing Dand manually reset to the start time by pressing A.

•The auto-repeat indicator appears in the Countdown Timer Mode only.

1/100 second

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

The stopwatch lets you measure elapsed time, split times, and two finishes.

•The display range of the stopwatch is 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59.99 seconds.

•The stopwatch continues to run, restarting from zero after it reaches its limit, until you stop it.

•The stopwatch measurement operation continues even if you exit the Stopwatch Mode.

•Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is frozen on the display clears the split time and returns to elapsed time measurement.

•All of the operations in this section are performed in the Stopwatch Mode, which you enter by pressing C(page E-5).

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