Sinn UX Sansibar Manuel utilisateur
Sansibar
© Sinn Spezialuhren GmbH & Co. KG
1st Edition / June 2009
Subject to changes technical specifications. Errors excepted.
CONTENTS
SINN SPEZIALUHREN IN FRANKFURT AM MAIN 6 – 9
GERMANISCHER LLOYD 10 – 13
PERFECT DIVING WATCHES 14 – 15
Sansibar — DIVER‘S WATCH MADE OF
GERMAN SUBMARINE STEEL 16 – 19
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE 20 – 23
TECHNICAL DETAILS 24 – 25
SERVICE 26 – 27
DEAR CUSTOMER,
Since the company was founded
in 1961, we have focused on the
creation of high-quality mechanical
watches. Nowadays, watch lovers
associate innovation and patents
with the name of SINN. And it’s not
just our dive watches that stand for
their high performance, robustness
and durability, quality and precision.
These watches do, however,
constitute an outstanding example
of how we repeatedly push the
limits of what can be achieved
physically in development.
That’s because we ask ourselves the question: what new technologies and
materials can be used to make dive watches even more practical and safer?
It’s often worth thinking outside the box to look at what is happening in other
industries
—
for example, in submarine construction. It’s not by chance,
therefore, that the U1, U2, UX and U1000 model series should be made from
a special steel
—
developed by ThyssenKrupp for the outer hulls of the Class
212, the most modern, non-nuclear submarine in the world. The outstanding
features of this quality German steel are ideally suited for use in our dive
watches, offering among other things the highest anti-magnetic qualities
and unique resistance to seawater.
Only right, then, that we should work closely together with an independent
company from the world of technical maritime safety. Germanischer Lloyd
from Hamburg tests and certifies the features of our dive watches
—
including
to European diving apparatus standard, something unique for this kind of
watch.
I am delighted that you should have chosen to buy a SINN dive watch and
hope that it will continue to give you pleasure for many years to come.
Very best wishes from Lothar Schmidt
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It was back in 1961 that the pilot and blind-flying instructor Helmut Sinn
founded the company. Ever since then, we have been committed to
producing high-specification mechanical watches. In 1994, the graduate
engineer Lothar Schmidt took control. This marked the beginning of a new
era for the Sinn brand, because the new owner took a decisive step towards
more innovation. Under his leadership, new technologies and materials
were introduced, thus providing the crucial incentives for our company’s
evolution and gradual emergence as an insiders’ tip for lovers of fine
watches. Today, our name stands for technical innovations, much to the
delight of both the trade and our customers alike.
SINN SPEZIALUHREN IN FRANKFURT AM MAIN
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Inventive talent and patents
Take, for instance, the absolutely condensation-free and anti-reflective diver’s
watch made of stainless steel
—
designed with HYDRO® technology. Other
examples include a chronometer chronograph fashioned from a 22-carat
gold alloy, which is as hard as stainless steel, and a chronometer whose
resistance to magnetic interference is 20 times greater than normal. Or those
models filled with inert gases and featuring an integrated dehumidifying
capsule to counteract moisture infiltration and the ageing of the watch
movement. This list would not be complete without mentioning the
development of socalled Einsatzzeitmesser (EZM®) watches for special
police units and border guards, and the lubrication and tolerance technology
that allows mechanical watches to perform at temperatures ranging from
–45 °C to +80 °C. Model 303 KRISTALL® passed the fire and ice test during the
1998 Yukon Quest sledgedog race that crosses the icy wilderness of Canada
and Alaska, where temperatures are known to plunge to –40 °C. The watch
was strapped to the arm of some of the participants on top of their protective
clothing. This was followed in 1999 by the ARKTIS® model 203. This diver’s
chronograph passed its field test in the North Polar Sea with flying colours.
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Innovations and authentications
One of our most important inventions is the oil-free DIAPAL® technology,
based on low-friction materials for the key functional parts of the watch,
enabling them to run without lubrication. This technology was first
employed in our jubilee model, the palladium alloy/white gold Frankfurt
Finance watch. Tegiment® technology, with which SINN achieves a virtually
scratch-proof surface hardness of up to 1500 HV (Vickers hardness) for its
stainless steel watches, represents another milestone. Other innovations
include diving watches made from original submarine steel, as used in the
construction of the outer shell of German class 212 submarines. Germanischer
Lloyd, the world’s biggest classification society providing marine safety
services, has been testing the aspects of water and pressure-resistance
since 2005. Moreover, an official authentication process conducted by
Germanischer Lloyd in 2006, SINN diver’s watches as diving gear for the
very first time in the watchmaking sector and tested them in keeping with
European diving equipment standards. The result: these timepieces
passed the temperature resistance and functionality tests with a sensational
success. All test results are authenticated with signature and seal.
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Ongoing advancement in technology and quality
Every one of our watches is an impressive testimony to the fulfilment of
self-imposed ambitions, as well as to the continuous technical advancement
and physical evolution in watchmaking. We strongly believe in the
manufacturing location in Germany, this being the only reliable guarantee
for maintaining our declared standards of excellence. Before the watches
are shipped abroad or displayed at our showroom in Frankfurt, or any
of the numerous sales outlets across Germany, they are subjected to
meticulous quality checks and fine-tuning, and the results recorded.
Production workshop and factory modifications
In our production workshop, skilled engravers
and watchmakers meticulously craft valuable
individual timepieces by hand. We also invest a
great deal of skill and passion in our factory
modifications, such as the caliber SZ 04, which
is used in the 6100 REGULATEUR model series.
Developed and produced by us, this conversion
—
in a movement with a regulator display with three,
separately positioned hands for the hours, minutes
and seconds – shapes the entire 6100 REGULATEUR
model series from a technical point of view. The
caliber SZ 02 provides a further example of the
modifications we make. The watch incorporates a
chronograph display with 60 minute counter at the
stop minute at 12 o’clock, which forms the heart
of the diver’s watches in the U1000 model series.
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GERMANISCHER LLOYD CERTIFIES
SINN DIVER’S WATCHES
What does Germanischer Lloyd have to do with a watch manufacturer from
Frankfurt am Main? The reputable institute examines and certifies our diver’s
watches — according to various criteria. One testing process focuses on water
and pressure resistance while a second centers on something that has not
yet been seen in the watch industry: certification according to the European
diving equipment norm!
Water and Pressure Resistance Testing
The background: the factor of time plays an important role in survival on every
dive. For this reason, diver’s watches must be water-resistant, reliable, robust, and
guarantee perfect legibility under all light and water conditions. Additionally: for
us, this certification is a natural extension of keeping our quality promise. What
we tell customers about our watches is not just lip service, we prove it by putting
it into action. Germanischer Lloyd has been testing our diver’s watches for water
and pressure resistance already since 2005. According to these certification
norms, Model U1000 and U1 are pressure-proof to 100 bar, Model U2 to 200
bar, and Model UX is even pressure-resistant to any reachable diving depth.
Germanischer Lloyd confirms the pressure security of this model to 12,000 meters
and the movement to 5,000 meters of diving depth. The test is repeated in
regular intervals on all of these model series in order to continue documenting
their consistent quality.
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