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Product Manual CH-4434 Hölstein Phone +41 61 956 11 11 Fax +41 61 951 20 65 Info@Oris.Ch Contents Oris SA Ribigasse 1 Product Manual CH-4434 Hölstein Phone +41 61 956 11 11 Fax +41 61 951 20 65 [email protected] www.oris.ch Contents. 7 English Introduction . 9 Adjusting Oris watches to fit the wrist . 20 Watches with leather straps . 20 Starting Oris watches . 10 Watches with rubber straps . 20 Crown positions . 10 Watches with metal bracelets . 20 Standard crown . 10 Fine adjustment of folding clasps . 20 Screw-down crown . 10 Crown with Oris Quick Lock system (QLC) . 10 Notes . 22 Screw-down pushers . 10 Accuracy . 22 Automatic winding watches . 11 Chronometer . 22 Manual winding watches . 11 Water-resistance . 24 Use and maintenance . 24 Setting and operating Oris watches . 12 Date, day of the week and time . 12 Technical information and Setting the date . 12 summary tables . 26 Worldtimer . 12 Pictograms . 26 Worldtimer with 3rd time zone and compass . 13 Metals for cases and straps . 27 2nd time zone on outer rotating bezel . 14 PVD coatings . 27 2nd time zone indicator on inner rotating Sapphire crystal . 27 bezel with vertical crown . 14 Mineral glass . 28 2nd time zone with additional 24 hr hand . 14 Plexi glass . 28 2nd time zone with additional 24 hr hand and Luminescent dials and hands . 28 city markers on the rotating bezel . 14 Metal bracelets, leather and rubber straps . 28 Chronograph . 15 Lunar calendar . 29 Complication . 15 Time zones . 30 Regulator . 16 Movements . 30 Pointer calendar . 16 Alarm with automatic winding . 16 International guarantee for Oris watches . 32 Tachymeter scale – measuring speeds . 17 Telemeter scale – measuring distances . 17 Proof of ownership . 33 Rotating bezel for diving watches with a 60 minute graduation . 18 Helium valve . 18 Watch as a compass . 18 Subject to modifications. Introduction. 9 English We congratulate you on the Please visit our site at purchase of your new Oris watch www.oris.ch for further infor- and extend a warm welcome to mation and for a free extended the ranks of mechanical watch guarantee period when you devotees. You see, Oris’ world is sign up to the exclusive Oris all about mechanics, and nothing members club: MyOris. but mechanics. We wish you quality time with Your Oris watch sets itself firmly your Oris. apart from mass market and fashion products, and instead embodies the true values of the Swiss art of watchmaking, with its fascinating micro-mechanical internal components and its stylishly seamless exterior. Oris Ulrich W. Herzog watches not only inherit a long Executive Chairman tradition dating back to 1904, but also all incorporate a refined ‘High-Mech’ system, imbued with the craftsmanship of our watch- makers and co-developed by well-known professionals from the worlds of Formula One, diving and aviation. Another very important feature in our modern times: Oris watches do not require any batteries because you supply your Oris watch with power via your own movements, or by winding it manually. Explanation of instruction arrows: = Operating instructions = Useful information Starting Oris watches. 11 English Crown positions. Standard crown. Crown with Oris Quick Lock it clockwise until you encounter you can see how the red rotor, the system (QLC). r resistance. hallmark of Oris watches, rotates The positions described below Oris standard crowns are high- and winds the movement. are valid in most cases. Any precision components. They are The Quick Lock Crown (QLC) The watch is only water-resistant deviations will be mentioned for equipped with seals to prevent developed by Oris is simpler to to its specified depth if the pusher the relevant type of movement. any water penetration. About half release than the screw-down has been screwed down. Manual winding movement. 0 of Oris watches are equipped with crown because it has a bayonet pushers must never be operated A Pos. 0 this kind of standard crown. fastening instead of a thread. underwater. Crown locked, for On mechanical Oris watches with manual winding, the barrel spring | screw-down crowns The crown is in position 1 and Press the crown gently against the and for crowns with can be operated immediately, as case and turn it slightly anti-clock- Automatic winding is wound by hand. The power Oris Quick Lock described in the following chapters. wise until the crown releases. movement. a reserve of a fully wound watch is approximately 42 hours. 2 system Now the crown is in position 1 and can be operated as described in An Oris watch that has started 0 Screw-down crown. the following chapters. and is worn daily for about Release the screw-down crown B After the setting, the crown must 12 hours, does not need manual or QLC crown (if fitted) as per the Pos. 1 be relocked by pressing it against winding. Instead, arm movements instructions in chapter 1. | Winding position A few Oris watches, especially the case and, at the same time cause the red rotor to rotate, Turn the crown clockwise in the divers’ watches, are equipped while turning it slightly clockwise thereby tightening the barrel position 1. It can also be turned with a screw-down crown. Before until it locks in position. spring. Even if you take off your forwards and backwards. 2 you can operate a crown of this watch at night, it continues to run. Stop as soon as you encounter 0 kind, it must first be unscrewed. The watch is only water-resistant It only stops working if it is not resistance. The barrel spring is now to its specified depth if the crown worn for approx. 40 hours. fully wound. Turn the crown anti-clockwise until has been locked. If more force is applied after Pos. 2 it is released from its thread. If an automatic winding watch the spring is fully wound, there | Date and day of Now the crown is in position 1 and stops, it must be restarted as is a risk of the end of the spring the week setting can be operated as described in Screw-down pusher. follows: breaking. In such cases, the the following chapters. ? Release the screw-down crown or barrel needs to be replaced at 2 After the setting, the crown must QLC crown (if fitted) as per the the watch owner’s expense. 0 be tightened back down by Some Oris models, especially instructions in chapter 1. Wind the watch once a day. pressing it against the case while diving watches, have screw-down With the crown in position 1, rotate Lock the screw-down crown or Pos. 3 turning it clockwise. pushers as well as screw-down it clockwise through 12 turns QLC crown (if fitted) as per the | Setting the time Check from time to time to ensure crowns. (it can also be turned forwards instructions in chapter 1. that the crown is properly screwed and backwards). down. Turn the crown which encloses Carry out the settings, as 2 the pusher anti-clockwise until you described below. The watch is only water-resistant encounter resistance. Lock the screw-down crown or None of the following operations to its specified depth if the crown Now the pusher can be operated, QLC crown (if fitted) as per the must be performed in water. has been screwed down. as described in the following instructions in chapter 1. chapters. After the setting, press the crown On the crystal case-back of certain gently against the case and turn Oris automatic winding watches, Setting and operating Oris watches. 13 English Date, day of the week and time. Push the crown back into position 2. Worldtimer. Synchronising times, setting the Setting T1 (local time): 4 Compass graduation Depending on the movement C time and date: Press the + or – pusher once for 5 Small second This instruction applies to most type, turn the crown clockwise or Release the screw-down crown each hour’s difference from T2 6 Day/night display movements produced for Oris anti-clockwise and then set the The Oris Worldtimer has two or QLC crown (if fitted) as per the (home time). 7 Date watches, with date and day of the current date. separate time zone displays: T1 instructions in chapter 1. 8 – pusher T1 week window display or date and If a day of the week display local time and T2 home time. Both Pull out the crown to position 3, The date can be corrected forwards 9 + pusher T1 day of the week hand indicators. is provided, turn the crown displays have their own hour and turn it anti-clockwise and set T2 to or backwards (Oris patent filed) 10 Vertical crown for setting of T3 Exceptions such as the Oris anti-clockwise and set the day. minute hands. The minute hands 05:00. The day/night display if setting the time with the + or – and compass Complication or Oris Chronograph Pull out the crown to position 3. of T1 and T2 run simultaneously. appears dark. pusher and passing midnight. (movement 676) are described in Set the time – completing The hour hand on T1 can be Using the + pusher, set T1 to On the figure above the sections for the corresponding another full turn of the dial for adjusted forward or backward an 05:00 too, i.e. the date must T1 indicates 06:53 or 18:53 types of movement. an afternoon time. hour at a time or very rapidly by change between 01:00 and Worldtimer with 3rd time T2 02:53 The watch is stopped in this pressing the two pushers. In rapid 03:00. zone and compass. C T3 09:53 or 21:53 position and can for example adjustment, the date can be Press the crown into position 2, be restarted at a time signal, moved forward or backward turn it anti-clockwise and set the As well as the functions described Synchronising T1 and T2, by pressing the crown into between 23:00 and 03:00 (Oris date.
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