43
42
6.3 12/24-hour display
If you press the SET button briefly, [
DE
] for ‘Deutsch’ (German) gets
displayed.
By pressing the MODE button once, [
24
] appears on the LC display as the
time format indicator. To switch between showing the time in 12-hour or
24-hour format, use the SET+ or SET– button. Confirm your entry by pres-
sing the MODE button. If you do not press the button, the display auto-
matically switches back after 9 seconds to showing the time.
6.4 Contrast setting
If you press the SET button briefly, [
DE
] for ‘Deutsch’ (German) gets
displayed.
By pressing the MODE button once, [
24
] appears for how the time is
shown. Press the MODE button again. [
00
] is now shown on the LC
display. To adjust the contrast, use the SET+ button to increase it or the
SET– button to reduce it. Confirm your entry by pressing the MODE but-
ton. If you do not press the button, the display automatically switches
back after 9 seconds to showing the time.
Note: The higher the setting, the greater the power consumption.
7. Re-starting after changing battery
After a change of battery a restart is performed. In order to pick up time
data, the watch searches for the time signal transmitters in the standard
order of EU, JP, US. During this process the symbol of the transmitter
being addressed flashes. As soon as the time data has been received, the
seconds on the LC display start running. After a few minutes, if the recep-
tion process has been successful, the watch automatically sets itself to
the correct time:
• DCF77: On successful reception of the DCF77 transmitter, CET / CEST
gets shown, the reception indicator [
EU
] is activated on the LC display
and the date is displayed with the day of the week in German.
• JJY40 / JJY60: On successful reception of the JJY40 or JJY60 transmitter,
Japanese local time gets shown, the reception indicator [
JP40/JP60
] is
acti vated on the LC display and the date is displayed with the day of
the week in English.
• WWVB: On successful reception of the WWVB transmitter, the Pacific
time zone gets shown, the reception indicator [
US
] is activated on the
LC display and the date is displayed with the day of the week in English.
If the watch fails to pick up a time signal within two hours, the signal
reception process is aborted in order to save power and resumes later at
8-hour intervals. Dashes are shown on the LC display. In order to never-
theless populate the time display, the watch can be manually set to the
current time (see section 7.1).
