Independents

 
Latitude adjustment is made via the large cam visible on the movement, which has a micrometer screw on it. By turning the screw, the cams can be adjusted further in or out - this is equivalent to increasing the latitude (e.g. if you're further up north, or further down south). Adjusting the cams further out (i.e. increasing its eccentricity) will cause a larger variation in sunrise and sunset - the two discs on the dial that shows sunrise and sunset will spread out more throughout the year. Unfortunately from what I can tell, there are no visible scale or marks to adjust the cam's offset, so I believe one has to eyeball it - set the cam to summer/winter where the day is longest/shortest, and proportionally adjust the cam relative to the latitude of the location desired (the maximum latitude the Krayon watches can display is +-60° on the map).

 
Longitude adjustment is done by two screws on the bridges, to adjust the sunrise and sunset discs respectively. This adjusts the discs to have the correct offset relative to the hour hand, so that the correct timezone is reflected based on longitude. This is required in countries which geographically spans multiple timezones but uses a standardised time, such as China. This can be adjusted more easily compared to latitude, as a regular screwdriver will work, and there are hashmarks which correspond to 15 minute intervals for longitude adjustment.

To go off a tangent, Krayon's debut watch, the Krayon Everywhere, is the bigger brother of the Krayon Anywhere as it allows the user to adjust the latitude and longitude without a watchmaker's intervention. Of course, that requires the addition of complex gear trains with differential gears to allow adjustment of the cam's eccentricity, and the two longitude "screws".

 
Regards,
skyeriding

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