Tissot SeaTouch – how to remove error symbol (for example after changing battery)

Have you seen that strange wrench symbol on your watch? I did! And AFTER I changed battery and had my watch pressure tested for as “little” as 43€ 😉
Manual says… TA-DA! Error – Contact service centre. Well, thanks guys! Actually it’s THEY did it to my watch!

I had two options – go back to the centre and have them to fix it, or do reset manually.
I am lazy (you know – “good” lazy, means I prefer spend time more productive, rather than running around different places, so I googled it and found my solution.

And here it comes:

1. Put the watch into sleep mode as per the manual.
   (activate touch screen, touch centre till OPT appears, middle button once and the shows 24h or 12h, touch centre twice to show SLEEP then leave a few seconds and LCD goes blank and both hands go to the 12 o’Clock position)
2. once in sleep mode, hold the 2 o’Clock position button for 6 seconds then touch the 6 o’Clock or Dive position on the face of the watch,
3. 3.the digital display should show something like 06G316, if not repeat step 2.

4.then use 2 o’Clock position button to cycle through all the different message codes until you are back at the first one.
5.finally use the 3 o’Clock position button to come out of sleep mode and hey presto done spanner gone.

Probably later on I will put a short youtube video as well as I also noticed that some of the simple steps, described in the manual are not working as they described there and my little hack was not in the manual at all.

Have fun and a nice day!