Re: Ernst Benz clock - how to set up?

[Roy N5804F]

Peter,
Would this be the clock you have ?
http://www.princetonwatches.com/shop/GC9000.asp


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Roy
Piper Archer N5804F


"Peter" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> I bought one of these from Aircraft Spruce USA a year ago.
>
> It stopped running; the battery seems to have gone flat, so I changed
> it.
>
> It now works, but the stopwatch RESET function takes the hands back to
> a weird position, not the 12:00 position which is what should happen.
>
> Aircraft Spruce have stopped selling this clock and have not helped.
> They can't even supply a manufacturer's part number (???) saying that
> they bought it on description alone...
>
> E/Benz in USA and Switzerland do not reply to emails or faxes at all -
> obviously deliberate.
>
> Does anyone know the procedure for setting it up, following a battery
> change?
>
> It cost USD 350 so I don't want to chuck it in the bin, and the
> aircraft is illegal for IFR without a clock...
>
> Incidentally this appears to be a $10 cheap clock mechanism, inside a
> fancy housing. Just like the previous clock I had, an LC-2 whose
> internals were about $2 and which cost $200. There is so much junk
> around in this business.
>
> Peter.
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[Anno v. Heimburg]

Roy N5804F wrote:
> Would this be the clock you have ?

Since this is a clock with an ETA movement, I would try to do it similarly
to my Swatch chrono: Pull the adjustment knob for the clock, then press the
buttons to change the position of the topwatch hands.

No idea whether that works on the Benz, though.