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The time signal always changes the date automatically, e.g. including
from the 30th to the 1st of the next month. In leap years the 29th of
February gets automatically taken into account. Thanks to the inter-
nal time-memory, during any days without time synchronisation your
watch will continue to run with the precision of a quartz watch (+/– 8
seconds a year).
Recommendation: To ensure the best possible conditions for recep-
tion of the time signal, the watch should not be worn and, if possible,
not left near to any electrical appliances, mobiles, cordless phones or
lights that use transformers.
4. Travelling into other time zones with time signal reception
When you travel into a different reception area, automatic time and
transmitter synchronisation does not take place until the watch next
picks up a time signal. For the best possible reception conditions we
recommend that you set the appropriate time zone for your location,
as an attempt of synchronisation always begins at ca. 2 a.m. based on
the local time set on the watch. If the time zone is wrong, the watch
will try to synchronise first with the time signal transmitter that was
previously set. Only thereafter do the other time signal transmitters
get checked by Autoscan.
For example: You travel from Europe to Japan. Your watch has CET
saved and tries to synchronise in line with CET at 10 a.m. in Japan.
At that time there is much more electromagnetic noise than when
synchronising at night and the chances of optimum reception are
thus less.
With the time zone set correctly the appropriate transmitter frequen-
cy gets checked as the first priority, thus reducing the length of the
transmitter check and power consumption.
If the watch fails to pick up a time signal, perform a manual time
synchronisation (see section 8).
