How To Switch Between 12-Hour And 24-Hour Format; Setting The Time, Date And Day By Receiving A Radio Signal; Mechanism Of Radio Signal Reception; Automatic Reception And Manual Reception - Seiko C-16 Instructions Manual

How to switch between 12-Hour and 24-Hour format
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You can select either 12-hour or 24-hour time indication format.
※ When the Style 5 (playing cards) is selected in the time display mode, 24-hour format cannot be selected.
→ How to select the style (Design) of the time display P112
In the Menu Display,
select and
press .
Menu Display
To show the Menu display
→ H ow to change the modes
or displays P108
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Setting the time, date and day by receiving a radio signal
■ Mechanism of radio signal reception
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The radio-controlled watch displays the precise Time, Date and Day by automatically
receiving and synchronizing itself with the radio signal of an offi cial standard frequency.
Transmitting
Station
Offi cial standard
frequency
Cesium
Atomic Clock
Time signal transmitted by a standard frequency is based on a super accurate "Cesium
Atomic Clock" that may have a 1 second loss or gain per one hundred thousand years.
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In the Miscellaneous Setting
Mode, select and
press .
Miscellaneous Setting Mode
Radio-controlled watch
Receive radio signals
through the antenna
inside the watch
↓
Analyze time information
↓
Display the current
Time, Date and Day
Press to Press
select ( ) format or 24-hour format.
(or .)
12-hour format
Manual Time Setting Mode
24-hour format
The above illustration
shows the display when the
12-hour format is selected.
12 Hour time:12-hour format
24 Hour time:24-hour format
■ Automatic reception and manual reception
・ Automatic reception
T his watch sets the time, date and day by automatically receiving a radio signal at a fi xed time. This watch
automatically receives a radio signal at 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM.
Automatic reception is carried out only when the watch is either in the TIME mode or in the WORLD TIME mode.
※ When this watch successfully receives a radio signal, it will stop automatic recetion.
・ P lace the watch in a place where it can easily receive a radio signal such as near a window.
・While the watch is receiving radio signals, do not move it.
→ To Improve radio signal reception P123
・ Manual reception
W hen this watch cannot automatically receive a radio signal due to a diffi cult
receiving environment, it is possible to receive them arbitrarily at any time.
→ How to conduct manual reception P162
※ U nless the city code of the home time is correctly set, the watch may fail to receive radio signals. Ensure that the
city code of the home time is correctly set. → How to check the settings of the watch (Miscellaneous information
display) ⇒ P110
※ T he reception environment will often infl uence whether the watch successfully receives radio signals. → To Improve
radio signal reception ⇒ P123 → Environments in which it is diffi cult to receive a radio signal ⇒ P124
※ T he watch is unable to receive radio signals outside the radio signal reception range → Radio signal reception
range ⇒ P118
to select either 12-hour
Returning to the Manual
Time Setting Mode
Press or
to select
To return to the
time display
BACK
hold down the
BACK button.
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