Ernst Benz clock - how to set up?

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


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"Peter" wrote in message
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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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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.

Is it possible that there is another mode that accidently got
set... a "countdown" timer?

Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocations!"
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