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L538 Quartz chronographs
• Press push-piece A at the start of the event you wish to time,
for example a ski race.
• Press push-piece B to see the rst intermediate time; the
60-second and 30-minute counter hands will stop, and the 1/10
th
of a second counter hand will move to the measured tenth.
• Press push-piece B again; the chronograph hands will jump to
the time elapsed since the start of the race.
To see the second intermediate time, repeat the procedure:
• Press push-piece B once to see the second intermediate time
measured to 1/10
th
of a second, and again to make the chrono-
graph hands catch up to the elapsed time.
• At the end of the race, press push-piece A to make the chrono-
graph display the total race time.
• Press push-piece B to reset.
NOTE: The split/intermediate times function can also be used
to record consecutively the times of various competitors as they
nish a race.
SPLIT-SECONDS function or intermediate time
START
1
SPLIT 1
2
SPLIT 2
4
STOP
6
RESTART
3
(catchup)
RESTART
5
(catchup)
Time-setting crown in
position 1
Reset
7
from
1
to
7
order of functions.
Read time 1
– 5 minutes
– 4 secs
– 6/10
ths
of a sec.
Read time 2
– 15 minutes
– 24 secs
– 8/10
ths
of a sec.
Read last time
– 25 minutes
– 18 secs
– 4/10
ths
of a sec.
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