If you follow this method, you need to set the day/date to the previous day, and then advance the hands until you reach the correct day/date and time on the dial. The point is, you can't tell if the watch mechanism is set at 6:30 in the morning or 6:30 in the evening just by looking at the hands. And so, it may cause the day/date display to change 12 hours too soon, or 12 hours too late.
@@tomasu301 I had. I’m too stupid to set watch even not knowing about that thing. And time being a bit off always bothered me. Not sure but I think some new gshocks have Auto time sync so that’s something.
Keep your out for a DeLorean. It might help you back to this time. Watch out for the flux capacitor though. If you get too close it will magnetize your hair spring.
In 4 years of watchmaking I have heard of one very rare movement, that actually can break during this. Modern movements always have a safety mechanism to avoid breaking the watch with setting the date. Standard movements always like the 2824 ect. and also the movement shown in the video has a safety mechanism.
what about *very* quickly winding the time to move the date forward several months because about 2 years ago you didn't know that that's supposedly very bad for the watch and they actually have a way to just skip days and months? asking for a friend. (as far as I know nothing broke *yet*)
If you look up a long Island watch video explaining it, there is a little plastic wheel thing that controls the changing of the two disks, it can snap and make the date/day function not work properly. You won't break the movement, but setting the date will not work. Thats why its advise not to do it, the fix is also easy enough, replacing that plastic part, but will be very costly taking everything apart to replace something that cost less than a few cents.
@@gilbertoflores7397but if you know how to mod a simple nh35 movement which is very easy it shouldn't cost much. A watch maker shouldn't over charge for something so simple.
I just set it to the previous day, then use the hands to move the date to today. It's also good because then you don't accidently set the date to 9:00 pm instead of AM
@@ChronometerCheck I wear my granpa's old watch which has a date and day adjustment system and I will make sure to do this every time I need to change anything ❤️🤝
I must admit I got used to winding the time on until it'd moved over to the next day (since it then means I know if it's AM or PM). But I'll remember this one for the future.
some watches only let you set the hour and minute, not the date. my omega does this and it avoids this issue. It also changes the date from around 11:30 to 12:15
Needless to say that no harm to the day/date wheel will be done if you first pull the crown to the hand setting position and then knock yourself out rotating the hour and minute hands clockwise (aka fast forward) until the desired day/date is reached
The guy in this video says that you damage the movement by doing this. I honestly can't believe that he's correct. Otherwise the watch is constantly damaging itself as it moves forward a day.
There are not many movements that are damaged by this. The 2 movements I know about are the AS5008 and the ETA7750. The Seiko doesn't care. It's possible however that the next date change won't work properly if you set the date between 9 and 3. It's not damaged however - it work again next midnight normally.
I think it's better to just advance the hands in the first date of the month (check the date before advancing, you'll do it only once every 2 months) & for the day, set it manually in the movement safety zone.
ive got a timex weekender, i love it because during daylight savings i can easily bump the hour hand forward or back, and the date is easy to change without messing with the time, since the day funcion is connected to the hour hand.
I usually use the following method: rotate the hands until the date moves forward then continue until I reach 13.00h. Then set the day and date to one day BEFORE today's date. Then advance the hands until the day and date move forward and continue until I reach today's time.
I thought you shouldn't change the time too, so I never changed it in that time too! Thanks for clearing that up for me! and also I had a quartz watch way back that I changed the date at midnight, the watch didn't break or anything, but the date changing got messed up for a while, but corrected itself after a week or too! I'm wondering what specific damages are we talking about here?!
All my watches have Sekio or Miyota movements, and I just set my date to a day before today (Incase my watch is on PM and I’m setting for AM), then I start rolling the time forward after we are within a day Or two of the target. Never had any issues and I’ve been doing this for years. Seems like maybe if you have a vintage watch this may be good advise!
I'm really glad I can't ruin my watch by changing the date. I have a Rolex OysterDate ref 6694. It's a manual wind watch without a quickset date. You have to manually set it to the correct date by progressing the hands. No risk of damage that way.
If it is a normal modern watch you would not break anything. I do not understand why this is such a big topic because it is completely irrelevant for most watches.
@@Florian-Florian Not necessarily true. This is in the user manal even for Seiko watches that use the 4R35/4R36 movement which is very common in their entry-level
My watch can't change the day along, so the trick I use is to go back and forward between 9pm and 12 am, this will make it advance 1 day by only moving between 3 hours. And how I can tell it's on 9 pm? If you turn to 12 and changes the day, so then con back to 9 and forward to 12 and there you go, much safer
That's actually an outdated precaution. Almost every new watch movement, even the crappiest ones can't be damaged by doing that. The piece that moves the date ring is flexible, so it'll not get damaged if you use the crown in the middle of the change.
You can't know, but have to check it out by letting the hands pass 12 o'clock. If the date changes you can continue to 6:30 and at that moment adjust the date/day. After that, you can turn the hands to the current time of the day.
That's all well and good unless you have an amtique rolex that won't let you change the time first because the mechanism is broken and NO ONE will fix it
Accidentally did this to my seiko 5.....now the date begins switching at around 10-10:30 rather than 9 and the day now finishes changing around 3am rather than 4. 😢hope its okay
If you damaged the day or date mechanism then the day or date will not change at all. Your watch is probabli fine since it does change the date, but it could benefit from removing and better repositioning of the watch hands, so it could show midnight right after the date change.. If you can't do it yourself, then any watchmaker can do it for you
On the older navitimers with eta movement you can not change the date during the date change. On the new inhouse breitling movement you can change the date whenever you want.
The front and the back of his watch don't match. The front says 4R36 movement (day/date automatic with manual wind and hacking seconds), the back says 7S26 movement (day/date automatic with no manual wind and no hacking seconds)
