How To Check The Calendar - Seiko 4F32A Technical Manual

TECHNICAL GUIDE
5. Set the date. (D)
Contact the "D" terminal and the (+) surface of the battery with conductive tweezers to activate the date
setting mode. "1" appears in the calendar frame. Then, contact the two portions repeatedly with
tweezers until the current date appears in the calendar frame.
Notes:
* The date dial only advances and will not turn back in the date setting mode.
* If any data has already been input before the date setting mode is activated, a numeral other than "1"
may appear in the calendar frame.
6. Check if the day dial is reset to "1".
Contact the "ø" terminal and the (+) surface of the battery with conductive tweezers once to check that
"1" appears in the calendar frame. If not, repeat the procedure again starting from step "2" above.
7. Push back the crown in to the normal position, and check if the number of years since the last leap years,
month and date are correctly set. (See "How to check the calendar" below)
● How to check the calendar
Pull out the crown to the first click, and push it back in to the normal position within a second.
* Take care not to pull out the crown all the way to the second click. The calendar cannot be checked.
The calendar will be shown in the frame in the following order.
(1) Year
(1) The second hand moves at 5-second intervals and stops. The number of seconds it has advanced
indicates the number of years that have passed since the last leap year. Five seconds correspond
to one year.
* Before pulling out the crown to the first click, check and remember where the second hand is so
that you can read how many seconds it has advanced.
* If the second hand has advanced 20 seconds (four times of five seconds), the current year is the
leap year.
Quick movement of
the second hand
Number of years since
the last leap years
(2) After the second hand indicates the number of years since the last leap year, the numeral in the
calendar frame changes to indicate the current month for five seconds.
(3) After the current month is shown, the current date is indicated in the calendar frame.
* When the month and date are represented by the same numeral as in the case of "January 1st",
"February 2nd" and so on, the numeral in the calendar frame quickly advances and moves back
by one to indicate that the month and date numerals are identical.
(4) After the current date is shown, the second hand quickly moves to catch up with the current second
and starts moving at normal one-second intervals thereafter.
(5) If the calendar is correctly set as you intended, set the desired time.
*If the year, month or date is not correctly set, repeat the procedure of inputting the calendar data
starting from step "1".
(2) Month
5 seconds 10 seconds
1 year 2 years
Cal. 4F32A, 8F32A, 8F33A, 8F35A
(3) Date
15 seconds 20 seconds
3 years 4 years (leap year)
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