Panerai LUMINOR 1950 8 DAYS GMT, Instructions For Use Manual

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The countdown is measured by two central hands, controlled by a push-piece
at 4 o’clock. The minutes hand
(G)
goes back one minute at each click of the
push-piece, until the desired position is reached. Pressing the push-piece at
10 o’clock activates the chronograph functions. The hands start to move, thus
indicating the minutes and seconds which remain until the start of the regatta.
When the countdown is over, the hands continue to measure the times, and
display the time elapsed from the start, until the chronograph is stopped.
T
HE KNOTS TACHYMETER SCALE
(
FOR SOME MODELS ONLY
) (N)
The rehaut carries the tachymeter scale expressed in knots, with values from
30 to 1,5 knots. The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile (1.852
km) per hour.
Your Panerai watch is able to measure the average speed of the yacht over a
defined distance (1 nautical mile).
One press on the start push-piece
(H)
automatically activates the chronograph
functions for the calculation of the average boat speed. After one nautical mile,
one press on the stop push-piece stops the chronograph functions: the central
chronograph minutes hand on the dial will indicate the average boat speed on
the rehaut scale.
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S
TART
/
STOP PUSH
-
PIECE FOR THE CHRONOGRAPH FUNCTIONS
(H)
Pressing it once starts the timing indicated by the chronograph seconds hand
(F)
, and after 60 seconds by the minutes hand
(G)
. When the same push-piece
(H)
is pressed a second time, all the chronograph hands are stopped.
R
ESET AND FLYBACK PUSH
-
PIECE FOR THE CHRONOGRAPH FUNCTIONS
(I)
Pushing it after the chronograph functions have been stopped immediately
returns the chronograph minutes hand
(G)
and the seconds hand
(F)
to zero.
Pushing it after the start push-piece
(H)
has been pressed once, the flyback
push-piece resets the chronograph hands and instantaneously restarts the
chronograph timer so as to carry out successive measurements without
having first to stop the chronograph.
C
ENTRAL CHRONOGRAPH MINUTES HAND
(G)
It is positioned at the centre of the watch, under the central seconds hand
(F)
.
The chronograph minutes hand measures the time elapsed in minutes since
the start of the chronograph measurement.
C
ENTRAL CHRONOGRAPH SECONDS HAND
(F)
The hand of the continuous seconds is at the centre of the watch. It measures
the seconds elapsed since the start of the chronograph measurement.
H
OURS COUNTER
(L)
Positioned at 3 o’clock, this subsidiary dial is the chronograph hours counter,
which indicates the time elapsed in hours since the start of the chronograph
measurement.
R
EGATTA FUNCTION COUNTDOWN
(
FOR SOME MODELS ONLY
) (M)
The Regatta countdown is a function specifically designed for yachting
activities.