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SK
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Your Favre-Leuba watch has an automatic
movement. This means that the natural
actions of your wrist wind up the movement.
The movement, if fully wound, has a power
reserve of at least 48 hours so that you do
not have to wind the watch up every time you
take it off for a short period (e.g. over night).
Manual winding is necessary only when
you put your watch on for the first time or
WINdING tHE WAtCH
Release the screwed-in crown (D) by rotating it
counterclockwise and moving it to position
1
.
Now pull the crown out to position
2
to set the
time, which stops the movement. Turn the
crown in the appropriate direction so that the
hands (E and F) show the time required. Then
In months with fewer than 31 days, manual
adjustment of the date is necessary. The
adjustment button (C) for the date is at 10
o’clock. Press this button with the soft-tipped
pin supplied by Favre-Leuba until the correct
SEttING tHE tIME ANd StOPPING tHE SECONd HANd
QUICK AdjUStMENt OF tHE dAtE
Press button
A
:
The chronograph
starts
.
Press button
A
again: The chronograph
stops
.
The central chronograph second hand (G)
and the minute counter (J) are used to read
the stop time.
Press button
B
:
The chronograph second hand (G) and the
counters (J and K) return to
zero
.
USE OF tHE CHRONOGRAPH FUNCtION –
tIMING AN INdIvIdUAL EvENt
after a lengthy period of not wearing it. To
do so, release the screwed-in crown (D) by
rotating it counterclockwise and thus moving
it to position
1
. Then turn the crown through
approximately 40 clockwise rotations to wind
the watch up fully. Then screw-in the crown
again by pressing and simultaneously turning
it clockwise into position
0
.
push the crown back into position
1
and
screw it by pressing and simultaneously
turning it clockwise. If the hour hand (E) moves
past midnight (24.00) when setting the time,
the date display jumps forward by one.
date appears. You should not carry out any
quick adjustment of the date between
8.00 p.m. and 2.00 a.m., as the date is auto-
matically being turned on by the movement
during this time.
MECHANICAL MOvEMENtS
The precision of a mechanical movement
varies depending on the habits of the person
tolerances For watcH movements
who is wearing the watch. The accuracy of
a mechanical watch from Favre-Leuba is
usually between 0 and +14 seconds a day.
Your Sky Chief Chronograph from Favre-
Leuba shows the hours, minutes, seconds
and the date. It also has a chronograph
function which can be used to time events
for up to 30 minutes. The results are shown
with an accuracy of a quarter of a second.
