The Watch (GRAND ENDEAVOUR 78WT) This page intentionally left blank. Thank you for purchasing the Grand Endeavour 78WT. It is one of a limited edition of 200 watches produced for the World Time series of the ACS Watch Project. The ACS Watch Project is an initiative undertaken by the 1978 ACS cohort to fund bursaries that help underprivileged students remain in the ACS schools family. Two types of bursary were set up and funded by the cohort since 2008 -one in the cohort's name and another in honour of the late Mr Earnest Lau who was principal of ACS Barker Road in 1978. The aim of the bursaries is to provide assistance to students with ﬁnancial needs regardless of age, race, religion or scholastic performance. Each bursary is open for application every academic year to current students enrolled in any ACS school in Singapore. The Class of 1978 Organizing Committee deliberates annually on the award of the bursaries to applicants from the various ACS campuses. By sharing God's grace with the students, it is hoped that they will learn to honour God, to honour their teachers and to cherish the bonds they fostered during their time in ACS. The proceeds of the ACS Watch project will help perpetuate these bursaries and increase their number of recipients annually. The ACS Watch Story Since the founding of ACS in 1886, there has never been a project commissioning bespoke quality watches. Each ACS Watch is made with solid stainless steel body to withstand water up to 20 ATM, a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal glass face, and embellished with customized ACS crown, buckle, dial, and case back. At the heart of the ACS Watch is a high-quality Japanese movement from Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII). The speciﬁcations of the Calibre NH36 mechanical movement are as follows: Winding Mechanism: Manual and automatic winding with ball bearing. Function: Day & date display with quick day & date correction. Jewels: 24 Jewels. Accuracy: -25 ~ +40 seconds per day (23 ± 2 C). Shock Resistance: Shock-absorber device for balance staff. Vibration Frequency: 6 vibrations per second (21,600 vibrations per hour). Duration Time: More than 41 hours. Antimagnetic: DC: 4800 A/m. Operating Procedure DO NOT attempt to adjust your watch under wet condition or with wet hands. Loosening the crown under such conditions may compromise the water tightness of the watch. 1. Hold watch with the dial facing up. Unscrew the crown in a counter clockwise (downwards) direction until the crown is fully loosened and in normal position. At normal position, turn the crown clockwise (upwards) to manually wind the watch. The NH36 movement is also automatically self-winding when you move your arm naturally while wearing the watch. 2. From normal position, gently pull the crown out to the ﬁrst click and turn it clockwise (upwards) to adjust the day of the week, and counter clockwise (downwards) to adjust the date. Gently pull the crown out to second click and turn it clockwise (upwards) to adjust the time. Please note that the NH36 movement has dual language (English and French) Day markers. Whichever language you choose to display when you set your watch between 3 am and 12 midnight will be set as the preferred language. However, the name of day in the alternative language will still be brieﬂy displayed between 12.50 am and 3 am. This is not a malfunction. DO NOT set your preferred language day selection between 12.50 am and 3 am. 3. When ﬁnished adjusting your watch, push the crown ﬁrmly inwards. While applying light inward pressure on the crown, screw back the crown onto the case gently in a clockwise (upwards) direction until it is ﬁrmly secured to ensure water tightness. DO NOT use force to over tighten the crown. World Time The bezel of the Grand Endeavour 78WT has been inscribed with a combination of city and country abbreviations in their respective time zones. This bezel is not ﬁxed but may be manually rotated to the left only. DO NOT force it to turn to the right. When a chosen country (e.g. Japan) has only one time zone regardless of its various cities, the country name is used to represent that particular time zone. When a country covers more than one time zone (e.g. USA), one or more of its major cities will be used to represent the respective time zones. The 3-letter IATA destination abbreviation convention is used where cities are indicated, and the IOC country abbreviation convention is used where countries are indicated. The combination of city/country names on the bezel and the 24-hour marker on the dial lets you know the approximate time of each location. Please note the section on Daylight Saving Time below. IATA City Abbreviation Day/Date window 12-hour marker and as even no. in 24-hour marker 24-hour marker IOC country abbreviation In honour of our alma mater–Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore has been highlighted to represent the GMT +8 time zone. Daylight Saving Time Daylight saving time (“DST”) is a system adopted by some countries to make the best use of daylight during a certain period in summer. Under this system the local time is advanced by one hour in spring for the longer days of summer, and it is adjusted back one hour again in autumn to account for the shorter daylight hours in the coming winter. Countries that adopt this system may have different effective dates. To ﬁnd the current time in another location, identify the location that you are currently in as indicated on the rotating bezel. Please refer to the Time Zone Table below for a complete listing of the respective cities or countries engraved on the rotating bezel. Align your current location marker on the bezel to the current local time hour of the 24-hour marker indicated on the dial by rotating the bezel in a counter-clockwise direction (to the left). You can then read the current hour of the desired location from the alignment of the other location marker to the corresponding 24-hour marker on the dial. The minute and second hands are the same in all locations. The Grand Endeavour 78WT does not account for certain time zones that are less than 1 hour apart. For example: It is now 10.24 am in Singapore in October and you would like to know the local time in New York City. DST is NOT in effect in New York City. Turn the bezel counter-clockwise (to the left) until the “SIN” marker is aligned with 1000 hours on the 24hour marker of the watch dial. The NYC marker rests on 2100 hours. This is the hour in “NYC”, the minute and second will be the same as in “SIN”. It is 9.24 pm on the previous night in New York City. For example: However, if the above example is to be in May and DST is in effect in New York City, then you need to add 1 hour to the local time there. It is 10.24 pm on the previous night in New York City. Alternatively, you may also read off the next marker to the right (i.e. “CHI” for Chile) as the time in “NYC”. Time Zone Table City / Country Inscribed on bezel Some other locations in the same time zone** Hours Abbreviation Difference to GMT (UTC) New Zealand* Fiji*, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Tuvalu. NZL +12 Tonga Samoa*, Tokelau. TGA +13 Honolulu Cook Islands, French Polynesia. HNL -10 Anchorage* Fairbanks*, Unalaska*. ANC -9 Vancouver* Pitcairn Islands, San Francisco*, Seattle*, Los Angeles*, Las Vegas*. YVR -8 Denver* Calgary*, Edmonton*, Salt Lake City*. DEN -7 Mexico City* Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chicago*, Dallas*, Winnipeg*. MEX -6 New York* Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba*, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Boston*, Miami*, Washington DC*, Montreal*, Toronto*. NYC -5 * Cities/Country marked with “*” use daylight saving time. Please note that DST are applied at different dates in different locations. ** Other locations in the same time zone are referenced from GMT. City / Country Inscribed on bezel Some other locations in the same time zone** Hours Abbreviation Difference to GMT (UTC) Chile* Barbados, Bolivia, Guyana, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Halifax*. CHI -4 Sao Paolo* Argentina, Suriname, Uruguay* SAO -3 -2 CPV -1 GMT Gambia, Ghana, Iceland, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Morocco*, Togo. UTC -0 London* 1 Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Germany*, Italy*, Namibia*, Nigeria, Poland*, Spain*, Sweden*, Switzerland*. LON +1 Paris* 1 Cyprus*, Egypt*, Estonia*, Finland*, Greece*, Israel*, Turkey*,Ukraine*, Romania*, South Africa. PAR +2 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, Kuwait, Madagascar, Tanzania, Somalia, Qatar, Yemen. KSA +3 Moscow Armenia, Georgia, Mauritius, Oman, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates. MOW +4 Cape Verde 1 Cities are pre-adjusted for DST. Please read one hour before if DST is not in effect. City / Country Inscribed on bezel Some other locations in the same time zone** Hours Abbreviation Difference to GMT (UTC) Pakistan Maldives, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. PAK +5 Bangladesh Bhutan, Kyrgyztan, Astana. BAN +6 Jakarta Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Pontianak. JKT +7 Singapore Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Bali, Makassar, Perth. SIN +8 Japan Korea, Palau, Manokwari. JPN +9 Sydney* Guam, Papua New Guinea, Brisbane, Canberra*, Cairns, Melbourne*, Yakutsk. SYD +10 Vladivostok Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu. VVO +11 (Source: http://www.timeanddate.com) Warranty The ACS Watch you have purchased bears a 12-month warranty against manufacturing defect. Please contact the following service centre if you require servicing: H2Hub Timepiece Blk 3011 Bedok North Ave 4 #02-2000 Bedok Industrial Park E Singapore 489977 T: F: e: 6443 0157, 6448 7858 6448 8611 [email protected] This page intentionally left blank. This page intentionally left blank.