Comments on: Trouble Shooter: I set the alarm on my Timex Triathlon Ironman Watch, now I can’t turn the thing off!

By: ED

ED — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:09 +0000

I could not get to alarm mode. Only “OCCSN”. Removed battery, it reset, and I’m not waking up at 3am anymore…nor is my wife!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:55:14 +0000

THANK YOU!!! I found out “Hide” doesn’t turn it off the hard way!

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:35:38 +0000

Teresa, thank you…your instructions were perfect…and to Timex, what were you guys thinking…was it some kind of joke to torment your customers by making the alarm function completely abstruse.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:03:00 +0000

Teresa…. THANK YOU!!!! Your instructions hit the nail on the head for my watch.

By: dd

dd — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:25:40 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:32:58 +0000

The instructions didn’t work for me either, but this did.
1) Press mode (lower left hand side)button until alarm appears on display
2) Press reset stop button (lower right hand side) and you cycle through the alarms until you find the one that is on
3) Press the start split button (bottom middle) and that changes the alarm setting between on and off. Choose off.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:02:05 +0000

The watch manual available online from the Timex web site for this watch is practically useless. I made the same assumption as Rolan that the “hide” option would turn off the alarm. I finally figured out that “hide” meant “hide the ability to set the alarm!”

This is how I disabled the alarm on my son’s watch:

Press and hold SET/RECALL until it says “SET” and things are blinking.

Repeatedly press MODE as the blinking cycles through hour/minutes/date etc. It continues to cycle through CHIME, BEEP, CHRONO, TIMER, OCCASN and finally ALM 1 (and ALM 2 and ALM 3). If any of the alarms (ALM) say “HIDE”, press STOP/RESET to change it to ON. Press SET/RECALL to exit the set function.

Now you can press MODE repeatedly until you reach ALM (or ALM 2 or ALM 3) and press STOP/RESET to turn to OFF. Press MODE (not SET/RECALL!) to exit this function. (If you stumble upon the sequence for setting the time of the alarm, note that you can cycle between DAILY, WKENDS & WKDAYS but OFF will not be a choice!)

HTH

By: admin

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:42:04 +0000

That is strange, never encountered “on” or “hide” before, but not all Ironman’s are the same. These instructions are targeted at the most common Timex Ironman models. If you’re getting nowhere and all else fails you could try Jessica’s solution
Rod

By: rolan

rolan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:18:10 +0000

these steps didnt work for me. when i attempt to hold down the stop/reset button, all it does is says “on” or “hide”. Selecting “hide” does nothing. The alarm still goes off everyday! help ! lol

i have a Timex Ironman Triathilon WR 100M

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:11:14 +0000

To Admin – THANK YOU, it worked! Why don’t they just put this in the manual?! What a blessing it was to find these instructions and not be interrupted every day.
Hint to others – you may have to hit the MODE button several times before it displays Alarm 1, 2, or 3, and make sure all of them are turned off if you really want no alarm.