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S1: Tide/start Button

S2: Stop/reset Button

S3: Mode Button

S4: Set Button

S5: Light Button

SPECIAL FEATURE:

This FREESTYLE product features unique Hydro 

Pushers®: these pushers can be pressed under 

water to a dynamic water pressure (not water 

depth) of 3 ATM.

DISPLAY MODE:

The watch has seven display modes: NORMAL 

TIME, TIDE, CHRONOGRAPH (CHRONO), RECALL, 

INTERVAL (TIMER), HEAT TIMER, ALARM.

To change from one display mode to another, press 

S3 button once.

NOTE: In any setting mode, if there is no button 

pressed for approximately 3 minutes, the watch will 

automatically save the entered data and exit the 

setting procedure.

TO SET THE NORMAL TIME AND CALENDAR:

1.   Press S3 button to select NORMAL TIME mode.

2.   Press and hold S4 button for approximately 4 

seconds, the message “SET” will be displayed 

and the Hour (AM/PM) digits will blink. Press 

S1 button to increase the digits by one unit or 

press S2 button to decrease the digits by one 

unit. Holding down either button will speed up 

the process.

3.   Press S3 button, the Minute digits will blink. 

Press S1 button to increase the digits by one 

unit or press S2 button to decrease the digits 

by one unit. Holding down either button will 

speed up the process.

4.   Press S3 button, the second digits will blink. 

Press S1 button or S2 button to reset the 

second digits to zero.

5.   Press S3 button, the year digits will blink. 

Press S1 button to increase the digits by one 

unit or press S2 button to decrease the digits 

by one unit. Holding down either button will 

speed up the process.

6.   Press S3 button, the month digits will blink. 

Press S1 button to increase the digits by one 

unit or press S2 button to decrease the digits 

by one unit. Holding down either button will 

speed up the process.

7.   Press S3 button, the date digits will blink. 

Press S1 button to increase the digits by one 

unit or press S2 button to decrease the digits 

by one unit. Holding down either button will 

speed up the process.

8.   Press S3 button, the time format setting will 

blink. Press S1 button or S2 button to toggle 

between 12-hour and 24-hour format. The A.M. 

or P.M. indicator may be displayed to indicate 

the time period 12:00 A.M. – 11:59 A.M. or 

12:00 P.M. – 11:59 P.M. respectively in 12-hour 

format.

9.   Press S3 button, the calendar format setting 

will blink, Press S1 button or S2 button to 

select among MM-DD (month-date), DD-MM 

(date-month).

10.   Press S3 button, language setting will blink. 

Press S1 button or S2 button to select among 

English, French and Spanish.

11.   Press S3 button, the hourly chime setting will 

blink, Press S1 button or S2 button to toggle 

between ON and OFF for the hourly chime 

setting.

12.  Press S3 button, the button beep setting will 

blink, Press S1 button or S2 button to toggle 

between ON and OFF for button beep setting. 

The button beep option will cause the watch to 

beep anytime a button is pressed.

13.   When finished making all the settings, press 

S4 button to confirm.

NOTE: The day is automatically calculated in ac-

cordance with the date.

DISPLAY FORMATS IN NORMAL TIME MODE:

There are three display formats in NORMAL TIME 

mode: DATE/TIME, TIDE/TIME and BIG TIME.

To change from one display format to another, 

press S1 button once.

DATE/TIME:

                                          

  

                                          

                     

       

TIDE/TIME:

In TIDE TIME format, the time of the next tide will 

come with the letter A/P representing A.M./P.M. in 

12-hour format.

BIG TIME:

    

      

In BIG TIME format, there is no A.M./P.M. indication 

even the time format setting is set to 12-hour 

format. A shark fin animation shall occur once per 

minute. For even minutes, the fin shall move from 

left to right, and for odd minutes, the fin shall move 

from right to left.

TO SET THE TIDE MODE:

1.   Press S3 button to select TIDE mode. The cor-

responding number and name of your selected 

favourite tide location will be displayed.

2.   After approximately 2 seconds, any one of the 

four data display modes (TIDE STATUS GRAPH 

/ DATA OF NEXT TIDE / SUNRISE TIME / SUN-

SET TIME, depends on the display mode left off 

during the last browsing) will be displayed.

3.   In any one of the four data display modes, 

press and hold S4 button for approximately 4 

seconds. The message “SET TIDE LOCATION” 

will be displayed and the corresponding num-

ber of your favourite tide location will blink.

4.   Press S1 button or S2 button to cycle forward 

or backward respectively the entries of your 

favourite tide locations (1-9) and select a tide 

location to set.

5.   Press S3 button, the region entry will blink. 

Press S1 button or S2 button to cycle forward 

or backward respectively the region entries to 

set the geographical region of your selected 

tide location.

6.   Press S3 button, the location entry will blink. 

Press S1 button or S2 button to cycle forward 

or backward respectively the location entries to 

set the geographical location of your selected 

tide location.

7.   Press S3 button, the DST (daylight savings 

time) setting will blink. Press S1 button or S2 

button to cycle among OFF, ON and AUTO. If 

AUTO is selected, the watch will automatically 

determine if the selected location is on DST. 

When DST is ON, the DST indicator 

 will be 

displayed.

8.   Press S3 button, the time offset (in the unit of 

minutes) to the tide data for the custom loca-

tion will blink. Press S1 button or S2 button 

to increase or decrease respectively the time 

offset (the available offsets are -180, -170, …, 

-10, 0, +10, …, +170, +180 minutes). The offset 

has no impact on the DST status.

9.   Press S3 button, the custom location setting 

will blink. Press S1 or S2 button to toggle 

between YES and NO. If NO is selected, this 

would be the last step of setting sequence. 

Otherwise, the sequence continues to custom-

ize the 18-character name of the selected tide 

location.

10.   Press S3 button, the first character of the 

18-character custom location name will blink. 

Press S1 button or S2 button to cycle forward 

or backward respectively the English letter 

of the selected character. Press S3 button to 

proceed to the next character.

11.   When finished making all the settings, press 

S4 button to confirm.

NOTE: For details of the geographical region 

and location of a tide location, please refer to the 

“LIST OF TIDE LOCATIONS” in the last page of this 

instruction manual.

TO USE THE TIDE, SUNRISE AND SUNSET DATA:

1.  Press S3 button to select TIDE mode. The cor-

responding number and name of your selected 

favourite tide location will be displayed.

2.  After approximately 2 seconds, any one of the 

four data display modes (TIDE STATUS GRAPH / 

DATA OF NEXT TIDE / SUNRISE TIME / SUNSET 

TIME, depends on the display mode left off 

during the last browsing) will be displayed.

    

3. To change from one data display mode to 

another, press S4 button once.

TIDE STATUS GRAPH:

       

In TIDE STATUS GRAPH mode, press S1 button or 

S2 button to advance or retreat respectively the tide 

status graph at a 30-minute interval to display the 

upcoming or previous tide level(s).

NOTE: The tide status graph will be updated every 

30 minutes.

DATA OF NEXT TIDE:

       

In DATA OF NEXT TIDE mode, press S1 button or 

S2 button to display the data of the previous tide 

and the next tide respectively. The time of the next 

tide will come with the letter A/P representing 

A.M./P.M. in 12-hour format.

SUNRISE TIME:

 

In SUNRISE TIME mode, press S1 button or S2 

button to display the previous and the next sunrise 

time respectively.

SUNSET TIME:

 

TIDE TRAINER 

S2

S1

S5

S4

S3

Current time displayed in 

hours and minutes

Current date

Current time interval

Current tide level

Upcoming tide levels

Previous tide levels

Time of the next tide

Current time

Height of the next 

tide with 

high (H) / low (L) 

tide indicator

Current tide level

Upcoming tide levels

Previous tide levels

Current date

Time of the next sunrise

Current date

Current tide level

Upcoming tide levels

Previous tide levels

Time of the next tide
Height of the next 

tide with 

high (H) / low (L) 

tide indicator

Current date

Time of the next sunset

Current date

Current time

TIDE STATUS GRAPH

SUNSET TIME

SUNRISE TIME

DATA OF NEXT TIDE

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