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MO1205-EA E-1 ENGLISH Congratulations upon your selection of this CASIO watch. Applications Built-in sensors are used to take direction, barometric pressure, temperature, and altitude readings, which are displayed by the hands of the watch. Such features make this watch useful when hiking, mountain climbing, or when engaging in other such outdoor a[...]
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E-8 Contents E-2 About This Manual E-3 Using the Crown E-3 To lock the crown E-3 To unlock the crown E-4 To pull the crown out E-4 To rotate the crown E-4 To start high-speed hand movement E-4 To stop high-speed hand movement E-5 To push the crown in E-6 Things to check before using the watch E-11 Charging the Watch E-15 To recover from the sleep s[...]
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E-16 Radio Controlled Atomic Timekeeping This watch receives a time calibration signal and updates its time setting accordingly. However, when using the watch outside of areas covered by time calibration signals, you will have to adjust the settings manually as required. See “Confi guring Current Time and Date Settings Manually” (page E-31) fo[...]
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E-24 Selecting a Mode • The illustration below shows which buttons you need to press to navigate between modes. • To return to the Timekeeping Mode from any other mode, hold down B for about two seconds. Alarm Mode Thermometer Mode Barometer Mode Stopwatch Mode Receive Mode Timekeeping Mode 30 30 30 30 30 30 Alarm Mode Thermometer Mode Baromete[...]
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E-32 Home City/DST Hour/Minute Hour Year Day Month (Hold down for about one second.) 4. Rotate the crown to adjust the time (hour and minute) setting. • With the crown pulled out, rotate the crown more than once in the direction that you want to move the hands. When you release the crown, the hands will start to move at high speed. • Note that [...]
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E-40 Using the Compass While Mountain Climbing or Hiking Having an idea of your current location and your destination is essential when mountain climbing or hiking. To do this, you need to “set the map”, which means to align the map so the directions indicated on it are aligned with the actual directions of your location. Basically what you are[...]
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E-48 How does the altimeter work? Generally, air pressure and temperature decrease as altitude increases. This watch bases its altitude readings on International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) values stipulated by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). These values defi ne relationships between altitude, air pressure, and temperature. 0 [...]
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E-56 Calibrating the Barometric Pressure Sensor Reading The pressure sensor of this watch is adjusted at the factory and so further adjustment is not required by you. However, if you notice that the pressure readings produced by the watch are different from readings produced by another instrument, you can use the procedure in this section to make c[...]
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E-64 3. Rotate the crown to set the alarm time. • With the crown pulled out, rotate the crown more than once in the direction that you want to move the hands. When you release the crown, the x x Minute Hand will start to move at high speed. Note that high-speed reverse movement is not supported. • z z Hour Hand movement is synchronized with x x[...]
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E-72 • Illumination may not turn on if the face of the watch is more than 15 degrees above or below parallel. Make sure that the back of your hand is parallel to the ground. • Illumination turns off after the preset illumination duration (page E-69), even if you keep the watch pointed towards your face. • Static electricity or magnetic force [...]
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E-80 Specifi cations Accuracy at normal temperature: ± 15 seconds a month (with no signal calibration) Timekeeping: Hour, minutes (hand moves every 10 seconds), seconds, day, day of the week Calendar system: Full Auto-calendar pre-programmed from the year 2000 to 2099 Other: Home City code (can be assigned one of 29 city codes and Coordinated Uni[...]