Good day i have a problem with my timex. Something happened with the compass.When i press the button the red indicator is going to the littel e symbol and do nothing.

A lot of watch manufacturers use the American style date layout of Month/Day/Year. Try this. Looking at the watch press and hold the bottom right SIDE button for 3 seconds. It should enter setting mode where the seconds display will flash. Press the Right FACE button once. It should switch to the Hour display flashing. Press the same button again to go to minutes and them again to go to the date display.
Repeated pressing of the top Right SIDE button changes the numbers upwards, (1,2,3,4), and the Left FACE button changes the numbers downwards, (4,3,2,1). Press the Bottom right SIDE button once to finish and go back to the normal display.

http://assets.timex.com/manual/W-9.pdf

Hello Margaret,

The owner's manual describes how to move
the minutes & "HOURS"... with the
"TUNING" buttons...

Hope this helps

Timex T231 User Manual Controls And Indicators Carnac the Magnificent

Send it back. It should be working whether you press a button or not. Either send it back or take it to get a battery.

Here is a link to the Timex support page with the download links for all the different instruction manuals:

http://www.timex.com/info/Product_Instruction_Guides_Downloads


And here is the direct link to the manual for the Expedition Digital Compass model:

http://assets.timex.com/user_guides/W215_M179/W215_M179_NA_EN.pdf


To view the Support Page or the Owner's Manual with Operating Instructions just use your mouse to click on the link, which is the underlined and highlighted text just above. This will open a new web browser page automatically for you and allow you to view the information at the website indicated and the contents of the Owner's Manual.

You may need ADOBE READER installed on your computer to read PDF documents.
You can download this free at WWW.ADOBE.COM if necessary.
Click on the DOWNLOAD ADOBE READER button on right side of the ADOBE home page when you get there, then follow the onscreen instructions to install the software on your computer.

See page 1 of the manual for instructions which basically read as follows:

1. In TIME mode, press and hold SET/RECALL. Time zone will flash.
2. To set, push + or - to select first or second time zone.
3. Press NEXT. Hour digits flash.
4. Press + or - to change hour including AM/PM. (Scroll through 12 hours to get to AM/PM).
5. Press NEXT. Minute digits flash.
6. Press + or - to change minutes.
7. Press NEXT. Second digits flash.
8. Press + or - to set seconds to zero.
9. Press NEXT. Day of week flashes.
10. Press + to - to change day.
11. Continue pattern to set month, day of month, 12-hour or 24-hour time display, MM.DD or
DD.MM date format, turn hourly CHIME on/off, turn BEEP on/off. If you select BEEP on, a
beep will sound every time you push a button (except INDIGLO).
12. Press DONE to confirm and exit or NEXT to continue and set second time zone, if desired.


I hope that was helpful to you, good luck.

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Joe.

Take a crack at the manual first.

http://www.timex.com/info/Product_Instruction_Guides_Downloads

Sound like something is jamming the button. I would try to call timex or if you have a trust worthy watchmaker locally, would be the easiest route.
I am sending their link to their site also;

http://www.timex.com/info/Product_Instruction_Guides_Downloads

Timex makes its manuals available for download from their website:)

http://www.timex.com/gp/node/n/255235011/178-9815641-8595102?ie=UTF8&timexBrand=core

Good luck!

For Compass Adjustment search on Google or FixYa

For Temperature calibration:
1. Pull the crown to most extended position (2 notches)
2. Temp hand moves to a default position
3. Move hand in + or - direction by pressing temp or tide buttons (above and below crown button)
4. When done, push crown to 0 position
(I used melting ice water to calibrate and fix to 0 deg C)

For Tide calibration:
1. Pull crown to middle position (1 notch)
2. Move hand in + or - direction by pressing temp or tide buttons (above and below crown button)
3. When done, push crown to 0 position

Hope this helps

Above link no longer valid. Here's the current one:
http://ftp.casio.co.jp/pub/world_manual/wat/en/qw3157.pdf

Also, the key was inputting the correct #, in this case 3157 - NOT the 100B - at the following page:
http://world.casio.com/wat/download/en/manual/
I had almost given up when I looked again at the back of my watch and found the other number.

Here's the inside of my Timex Expedition Dive watch. To reset the watch after replacing the battery, press down with a small screw driver on the metal tab that the red arrow is pointing to.