Every TRITON watch will remain water-resistant provided that the crown, pushers, crystal, case and gaskets remain intact. We recommend you have a water resistance test carried out every year on any water-resistant watch. This s a simple procedure that takes only a few minutes at a properly equipped watch service center.

Care and Maintenance of your Leather Strap
1. Avoid contact with water and moisture to prevent discoloration and deterioration.
2. Avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight to prevent the color from fading.
3. Leather is permeable, so avoid contaminating it with greasy substances or cosmetic products.
4. If you have a problem with your leather strap, please contact your nearest TRITON retailer.
5. Under normal conditions, a leather strap should last for about 12 months.

Preventive Maintenance
Salt Water: always rinse your watch with warm fresh water afterwards.
Shocks: whether thermal or other, avoid them.
Crown: screw it in carefully to ensure that no water enters the mechanism.
Cleaning: for metal bracelets and for all water resistant cases use a toothbrush with soapy water and a soft cloth for drying.
Chemical products: avoid direct contact with solvents, detergents, perfumes, cosmetic products etc., since they may damage the bracelet, the case or the gaskets.
Temperatures: avoid extreme temperatures.

What is an Automatic TRITON Watch?
An automatic TRITON watch is a self-winding watch. The movement of your wrist and body causes the rotor, a weight attached to an automatic winding mechanism, to wind up the watch. An automatic watch needs no battery, but will stop if not worn for over a day.

What must I do if my automatic TRITON watch stops because I didn’t use it?
Wind the crown ten times clock-wise to start the watch and give it some reserve power. Set the time and date and put the watch on your wrist.

How much motion does an automatic TRITON need?
The motions of daily life are sufficient in themselves to wind up an automatic watch. How-ever, non active people, such as the elderly or patients confined to bed may find that they are not active enough to ensure that their watch stays wound up.

What is a Chronograph?
A chronograph is a stop watch which permits the measurement of a desired interval of time. A chronograph has start/stop/reset functions. A TRITON chronograph can measure time intervals to within 1/5 of a second. As well as the stop-watch functions, a chronograph also indicates the time.

How can I reset the Time and Date?
For all types of movement, the time is set by pulling out the crown to the last position. If the watch has a screw-in crown (divers and sports watches), first unscrew the crown. The date can be reset for almost all watches if the crown is pulled out halfway. For exceptions please consult the instruction manual for the particular type of watch.

What do I see turning in the movement when I look through the glass back of the watch?
This is the rotor, the weight that winds up the automatic winding mechanism of a self-winding watch.

Is there any risk of breaking the mainspring when winding up my TRITON watch?
None at all. The mainspring is made out of modern, space age alloys and therefore very resistant. Stop winding when a stronger resistance is felt.

What is a mechanical TRITON watch?
Mechanical TRITON watches are driven by flat, coiled springs, called mainsprings. They do not have a battery. They are either hand wound or self-wound by means of the oscillating weight (rotor) in an automatic watch.

What is the advantage of a mechanical TRITON watch?
A mechanical TRITON watch has a number of practical advantages. It is more than accurate enough for daily life, is very durable, and if well maintained can be handed down from generation to generation as a precious heirloom or keepsake. A good mechanical watch is often more accurate over a short period of time, such as a 5 second interval, than a quartz watch; many professional photographers have discovered that using a mechanical watch to time their exposures gives more accurate results. Mechanical watches are also impervious to low levels of magnetism. Mechanical watches have no battery, are perfectly safe to the environment, and as a self contained, perpetually regenerating source of energy, show a respect and concern for nature. A mechanical watch is the antithesis of the throw-away culture and as well as being friendly to the environment and a thing of beauty in itself, it is now, more than ever before, a practical, useful, and efficient mechanical device.

What do you mean by jewels in a mechanical TRITON Watch?
Jewels are man-made artificial sapphires or rubies that have been drilled, chamfered, and polished to serve as bearings for the gears and as stones for the pallet-arms. This reduces the friction of mechanical parts against each other to a bare minimum. A good watch requires at least 17 jewels. All TRITON Automatic watches, because they have so many more gears and moving parts, have as many as 25 jewels.

What is a sapphire crystal?
A sapphire crystal is a watch crystal that is made of a piece of artificial sapphire. Having a hardness of 9 moths, it is extremely hard and scratch resistant and can only be scratched by a diamond.

Why should a watch be water resistant?
A watch movement is a delicate micro-machine which must be protected against water, vapours, sweat, dust, dirt and humidity. The case of a waterproof watch is designed with a seal around the crystal, crown and back to ensure the integrity of the watch. All TRITON mechanical watches have water resistant cases. Water resistant watches are designed to protect the watch from exposure to moisture, such as being caught in the rain or washing your hands. All TRITON watches are water resistant to 10 ATM (100 metres/330 feet).