Sinn UX Sansibar User manual

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Sansibar

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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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