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OPERATION CHART : QW-1637

GENERAL GUIDE
• Press M to change from mode to mode. After you perform an operation in any mode, • In any mode press L to illuminate the display for about two seconds.
pressing M returns to the Timekeeping Mode. • Some watch models have a standard black-on-white display, while others have a white-on-
black display. All displays in this manual are shown as black-on-white.
Timekeeping Mode Telememo Mode Alarm Mode Dual Time Mode Countdown Alarm Mode Stopwatch Mode

(Mode) (Light)

TIMEKEEPING MODE To edit Telememo data items

1. In the Telememo Mode, scroll through the data items and display the one you want to edit.
Month-Date • In the Timekeeping Mode, press B to switch 2. Press A and a cursor appears in the text area.
Day of week between the 12-hour and 24-hour formats.
Year 3. Use M to move the cursor to the character you want to change.
4. Change the character.
To set the time and date • See “How to input characters” for details.
1. Press A while in the Timekeeping Mode. 5. After making the changes that you want, press A to store it and return to the Telememo
The seconds digits flash on the display because they Mode.
are selected.
2. Press M to change the selection in the following
To delete Telememo data
sequence.
1. In the Telememo Mode, scroll through the data items and display the one you want to delete.
2. Press A and a cursor appears in the text area.
Seconds Hour Minutes
3. Press B and C at the same time to delete the data item.
Hour Minutes • At this time the cursor appears in the text area, ready for input.
PM indicator Seconds Date Month Year
4. Input data or press A to return to the Telememo Mode.
3. While the seconds digits are selected (flashing), press C to reset the seconds to 00 . If you
press C while the seconds count is in the range of 30 to 59, the seconds are reset to 00 and ALARM MODE
1 is added to the minutes. If the seconds count is in the range of 00 to 29, the minutes count
Mode You can set five independent alarms with the hour,
is unchanged. indicator minutes, month and date. You can even input text that
4. While any other digits (besides seconds) are selected (flashing), press C to increase the Month-Date appears on the display to remind you of the purpose of
number or B to decrease it.
each alarm. Use the Alarm Mode to turn the alarm and the
• Holding down either button changes the current selection at high speed. Text area
Hourly Time Signal on and off.
• When the 12-hour format is selected, the indicator P appears on the display to indicate “p.m.”
• When an alarm is turned on, an alarm tone sounds for
times. There is no indicator for “a.m.” times. Selecting the 24-hour format causes the
20 seconds when the preset time is reached.
indicator 24 to appear on the display.
• When the Hourly Time Signal is turned on, the watch
5. After you set the time and date, press A to return to the Timekeeping Mode.
• The day of the week is automatically set in accordance with the date. beeps every hour on the hour.
• The date can be set within the range of January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2039.
• If you do not operate any button for a few minutes while a selection is flashing, the flashing
stops and the watch goes back to the Timekeeping Mode automatically.
Hour Minutes Alarm No.
ABOUT THE BACKLIGHT Alarm on indicator
In any mode, press L to illuminate the display for about two seconds. Alarm Types
• The backlight of the watch employs an electro-luminescent (EL) light, which loses illuminating The types of alarm you get depends on the information you set.
power after very long use. • To set a Daily alarm
• The illumination provided by the backlight may be hard to see when viewed under direct Set the hour and minutes for the alarm time. Set xx for the month and date (see step 4 under
sunlight. “To set alarms”). This type of setting causes the alarm to sound every day at the time you set.
• The watch will emit an audible sound whenever the display is illuminated. This is caused by a • To set a Date alarm
transistor that vibrates when the EL panel lights up. It does not indicate malfunction of the Set the month, date, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm
watch. to sound at the specific time, on the specific date you set.
• The backlight automatically stops illuminating whenever an alarm sounds. • To set a 1-Month alarm
Set the month, hour and minutes for the alarm time. Set xx for the date (see step 4 under “To
set alarms”). This type of setting causes the alarm to sound every day at the time you set, only
TELEMEMO MODE during the month you set.
Mode The Telememo Mode lets you store up to 30 pairs of name • To set a Monthly alarm
indicator and telephone number data. Data is automatically sorted Set the date, hour and minutes for the alarm time. Set xx for the month (see step 4 under “To
Remaining based on the characters of the name. You can recall data set alarms”). This type of setting causes the alarm to sound every month at the time you set, on
memory by scrolling through it on the display. the date you set.
• See the “CHARACTER LIST” at the back of this manual
for details on how the watch sorts data. To set alarms
• The data item on the display when you exit the 1. Press C while in the Alarm Mode to select Alarm 1 through Alarm 5.
Telememo Mode appears first the next time you enter
the Telememo Mode. Alarm 1 Alarm 2 Alarm 3 Alarm 4

Hourly Time Signal Alarm 5

Name Telephone number 2. After you select an alarm, press A . The hour digits flash on the display because they are
selected.
To input new Telememo data • At this time, the alarm is automatically switched on.
Text area 1. In the Telememo Mode, press B or C until the new 3. Press M to change the selection in the following sequence.
Cursor data display appears.
• The new data display is the one that is blank (contains Hour Minutes Month Date Text*
no name and telephone number).
• If there is no Telememo data stored in memory yet, the * There are eight spaces in the text, so you have to press M eight times to move to the Hour
new data display appears as soon as you enter the setting.
Telememo Mode. 4. Press C to increase the selected digits and B to decrease them. Holding down either button
2. Press A and a cursor appears in the text area. changes the selection at high speed.
3. Input a name in the text area and a telephone number • To set an alarm that does not include a month (daily alarm, monthly alarm), set xx for the
in the number area. month. Press C or B until the xx mark appears (between 12 and 1) while the month digits
are flashing.
Number area Use B and C to input characters, and M to move the • To set an alarm that does not include date (daily alarm, 1-month alarm), set xx for the date.
[New Data Display] cursor around the display. Press C or B until the xx mark appears (between 31 and 1) while the date digits are
For details, see “How to input characters”. flashing.
• The format (12-hour and 24-hour) of the alarm time matches the format you select for normal
• You can input up to eight characters in the text area, and 12 digits in the number area.
• Make sure that you distinguish between the letter O and the number 0 (zero). Inputting a timekeeping.
zero for the letter O will affect automatic sorting. • When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time correctly as
4. After inputting your data, press A to store it and return to the Telememo Mode. morning (no indicator) or afternoon P.
• When you press A to store data, the message SORT appears on the display for a few 5. If you want to input reminder text, first use M to move the cursor to the text area of the
seconds. After the sort operation is complete, the normal Telememo Mode display (without display and then input text.
the cursor) appears.
• The text area of the display can show only six characters at a time, so longer text scrolls
continuously from right to left. Use B and C to input characters, and M to move the cursor around the display. For details,
• If the message FULL appears in the text area of the display, it means that memory is see “How to input characters”.
full. To store more data, you will first have to delete some of the data stored in memory.
• You can input up to eight characters in the text area.
To recall Telememo data • Anytime while the cursor is on the display, you can press B and C at the same time to clear
In the Telememo Mode, press C to scroll forward through stored data items or B to scroll in
reverse. it.
• Holding down either button scrolls through the data at high speed.

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6. After you finish inputting data, press A to return to the Alarm Mode. STOPWATCH MODE
• If you input reminder text, the text appears on the display when the alarm time is reached.
• Note that reminder text appears only if the watch is in the Timekeeping Mode when the alarm Current time 1/100 second The Stopwatch Mode lets you measure elapsed time, split
time is reached. Otherwise, only the alarm tone sounds (without the reminder text). Mode indicator times, and two finishes. The range of the stopwatch is 23
hours, 59 minutes, 59.99 seconds.
To stop an alarm once it starts to sound
Press any button to stop an alarm when it starts to sounds. The reminder text for the alarm (if
any) will remain in the text area of the display for about 20 seconds.

To switch an Alarm and Hourly Time Signal on and off

1. In the Alarm Mode, press C to select an alarm or the Hourly Time Signal.
2. When the alarm or Hourly Time Signal you want to is selected, press B to switch it on and
off.
x Indicates alarm is ON
y Indicates Hourly Time Signal is ON Hours Minutes
• If any alarm is on, the Alarm On Indicator is shown on the display when you change to Seconds
another mode. (a) Elapsed time measurement
C C C C B
To test the alarm Start Stop Re-start Stop Clear
Hold down C while in the Alarm Mode to sound the alarm.
(b) Split time measurement
DUAL TIME MODE C B B C B
Start Split Split release Stop Clear
Mode indicator Month-Date The Dual Time function of this watch lets you keep track of
time in a different time zone.
(c) Split time and 1st-2nd place times
• In the Dual Time Mode, the seconds count is
synchronized with the seconds count of the C B C B B
Start Split Stop Split release Clear
Timekeeping Mode.
First runner Second runner Record time
• In the Dual Time Mode, press B to switch between the
finishes. finishes. of second
12-hour and 24-hour formats.
Record time of runner.
first runner.
To set the Dual Time
1. Press A while in the Dual Time Mode. The hour digits
flash on the display because they are selected. INPUTTING TEXT
Hour Minutes 2. Press M to change the selection in the following The following describes how to input text in the Telememo Mode and Alarm Mode. It also
Seconds
sequence. provides details of how text is produced in the text area of the display.
Hour Minutes Month Date How to input characters
Cursor Text area 1. When the cursor is blinking in the text area, use C and
B to scroll through the available letters, numbers and
3. Press C to increase the selected digits and B to decrease them. Holding down either
symbols, in the following sequence.
button changes the selection at high speed.
4. After you set the time, press A to return to the Dual Time Mode. C B
(space) A to Z 0 to 9
COUNTDOWN ALARM MODE
The countdown timer can be set within a range of 1 . -
Mode indicator Current time
minute to 24 hours. When the countdown reaches zero,
an alarm sounds for 10 seconds or until you press any • Holding down either button scrolls through at high
button. Number area
speed.
Note that you can also select auto repeat timing that
automatically restarts the countdown from the original 2. When the character you want at the cursor position is shown, press M to move the cursor to
value you set whenever zero is reached. the right.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until your text is complete.
To set the countdown start time • The text area in the Telememo Mode can hold up to eight characters. When the cursor is
1. Press A while in the Countdown Alarm Mode. The located at the eighth space of the text area in this mode, moving the cursor to the right
hours digit flashes on the display because it is causes it to jump down to the first digit in the number area. When the cursor is at the 12th
selected. digit of the number area, moving it to the right causes it to jump back up to the first character
Hours Minutes of the text area.
Seconds 2. Press M to change the selection in the following
sequence. • You can input only numbers and spaces in the number area. Each press of C or B changes
the input at the current cursor location in the following sequence:
Hours Minutes
Press C
3. Press C to increase the selected number. Holding down C changes the selection at high x 0 to 9 (space)
speed. Press B
• To set the starting value of the countdown time to 24 hours, set 0:00 .
4. After you set the countdown start time, press A to return to the Countdown Alarm Mode. • If you do not perform any button operation for about two or three minutes while the cursor is
on the display, the watch automatically returns to the normal data display (the cursor
To use the countdown timer disappears).
1. Press C while in the Countdown Alarm Mode to start the countdown timer.
2. Press C again to stop the countdown timer. How the text display scrolls
• You can continue countdown timer operation by pressing C . The text area of the display can show only six characters at the time, so longer text scrolls
3. Stop the timer and then press B to reset the countdown time to its starting value. continuously from right to left.
• When the end of the countdown is reached and auto repeat timing is off, the alarm sounds for Continuously scrolls
10 seconds or until you stop the alarm by pressing any button. Countdown timing stops, and
the countdown time is automatically reset to its starting value after the alarm stops. MEETING<MEE
Separator (inserted automatically)
To switch auto repeat timing on and off Text area
1. Press A while in the Countdown Alarm Mode. The Last letter of text
Auto repeat on indicator
hours digit flashes on the display because it is selected.
2. Press B to switch auto repeat on and off.
3. Press A to return to the Countdown Alarm Mode.
CHARACTER LIST
• When the end of the countdown is reached while auto
1 (space) 11 J 21 T 31 3
repeat is on, the alarm sounds, but the countdown
restarts from the beginning without stopping. You can 2 A 12 K 22 U 32 4
stop the countdown by pressing C and manually reset
to the start time by pressing B . 3 B 13 L 23 V 33 5

4 C 14 M 24 W 34 6

5 D 15 N 25 X 35 7

6 E 16 O 26 Y 36 8

7 F 17 P 27 Z 37 9

8 G 18 Q 28 0 38 -

9 H 19 R 29 1 39 .

10 I 20 S 30 2

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