Garde Ruhla Business Alarm Operating Instructions
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mode [M]
light
[B]
[A]
Operating instructions:
Ruhla
rc-watch analog-digital “Business Alarm”
Features / watch functions:
3-hand analogue movement with 2 LCD displays
2nd time/time zone, stopwatch, alarm,
calendar week/year, day/date
Automatic time setting
and correction with the DCF 77 transmitter
Automatic summer/winter time setting
Digital and analogue time zone adjustment
Manual synchronisation
Manual correction of the hands
LCD battery status display
Waterproof to 10 atm
Function:
Your radio-controlled watch is synchronised to the second each night between 2 and 3 a.m. In the event that there is no signal at the time, your watch will continue
to run as an extremely precise quartz watch. The internal time and the hands are synchronised as soon as the DCF signal becomes available.
LCD displays:
The large LCD display in the lower section of the dial displays all of the functions of your watch. The upper, smaller LCD displays the calendar and week day; in
business function, it switches to the digital time [h – min]. You select the various functions of your watch by pressing briefly on the button [mode].
2nd time/time zone, stopwatch, alarm, calendar week/year and day/date. On delivery, the 2nd time display in the LCD is always the current, analogue time.
The following sections provide an extensive description of how to make settings and what functions are available.
2nd time/time zone Stopwatch
Alarm
Calendar week/year Day/date
2nd time/time zone:
Setting a second time zone for foreign travel
On delivery, the second, current time [h-min-s] is always shown in the large LCD display. Press briefly on the button [A], and the seconds' display switches to the
time zone display [14:45
0 0
]; [
0 0
] is CET. In order to set a time zone (when abroad), press and hold button [A] for 8 s until the hour display and the time zone
display flash. You can now move to the desired time in the LCD: scroll upwards by briefly pressing button [A] and downwards by briefly pressing button [B]
[09:45
-0 5
]. The time zone display now shows the set time zone. The LCD display then switches to the new time [17:45
59
]. In view of the fact that the time when
abroad usually differs to the time at home by full hours, settings take place accordingly in full hours.
Please note that there is no radio reception of the DCF signal when setting the time zone!
Transfer of the digital time zone time to the analogue time:
If you wish, you can switch the digital time to analogue time. Simultaneously press buttons [A and B] for longer than 3 s, and the hands will rotate rapidly to the
time displayed in the LCD.
Please take note that the date display is always adjusted to suit the analogue time display.
Resetting the time zone:
In order to reset the time zone [
0 0
] and the time, please proceed as described in sections Setting a second time zone for foreign travel and Transfer of the digital
time tone time and the analogue time.
Stopwatch function:
The stopwatch function [00.00
00.0
] is selected by pressing the button [mode] – a runner is then displayed in the LCD, next to the battery symbol. To start and stop
the stopwatch, press button [A]. You can take intermediate times by pressing button [B] and then return to the stopwatch function. After taking the time using
button [A], you can reset to [00.00
00.0
] by pressing button [B].