When NOT To Change The DATE on a Watch (and how to do it properly)
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2018
- Don't know when not to change the date on a watch? Here is how to do it properly, and some problems you might run into (or damages) if you do it at the wrong time.
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In this video, you'll learn:
- When not to change the date + why changing the date at the wrong time is bad for your watch movement
- How to know if your watch shows AM or PM + when to change the date on a watch
- What’s the best time to change the date on an automatic watch?
- How to set the date if it's currently between 9 PM and 3 AM
- How it works with instantaneous date change mechanisms
- Why your watch doesn't change at midnight + how to set it so it actually does
- What to do if the date won’t change on your watch or the date wheel is stuck
Wow so I've been doing this wrong my whole life. My Hamilton must be pretty resilient because I've done this wrong so many times and haven't broke the movement yet.
Thank you! I was doing it wrong, I bought my first mechanical watch and the dealer lady said I should put the hour and minute hand at 11 or close to 12 mark before changing the day and date. This cleared up a lot of things. Thank you!
I thought I literally would have to wait between 5AM until 7PM before I can change the time. Haha.
Me too
Change the time first and then change the date. No problem.
Same lmao
Ah... I've been doing that for a year now. I'm smart
😂😂 I was busy waiting
Great video! Very helpful
Thank you :) you explained very clearly with various different watches and different scenarios. As someone new to watches it was an absolute life saver.
Thank you. Never knew this until I bought a Seiko presage. This video is beyond helpful. You just saved my watch.
I only needed to know which way to turn day or date and saw it right at the beginning, but had to see the video right through because it was very interesting and the guy explained everything clearly. Many thanks for the tutorial on setting date, day, and time.
This is the video that I have been looking for.
I've seen a number of so-called watch experts on UA-cam adjusting the date with the hour hand between 9 and 3.
Good video and explanation.
Great video. I was afraid that I couldn't set my watch to 11pm as the day/date was changing as I thought it would damage the watch but u cleared my mind of doubts. Thank you!
Very informative video Alessandro, thank you! Life saver ;)
Fabulous video! Very clear and I finally got the date on my watch right without damaging it. Thank you!!!
you have got to be out of your mind! How about a video w/o music, w/o such an incredible amount if unnecessary babbling!! How about instructions in a military type way! FFS! Is everyone in the watch community so.....drawn out, loving to hear their own GD voice? Tell me how to operate the MF'r and then shut F up!! I cant find an intelligent instructional video anywhere!!
Great video! I've seen so many videos that only tells you _not_ to change date between 21:00-03:00 but never explains why. Thank you sir 👍
Thanks man I've heard this before just couldn't remember when to safely set very informative
WOW! Finally a video that easily shows how to get the date set accurately. I'm bookmarking this video for future reference.
Thank you Sir, I made the mistake once and my watch runs fine but will not change the date at the wrong time ⌚👍
Thank you sir, it is so informative video, I was doing wrong date change around 2 pm (according to watch 2am) past 2 days, then searched net about the issue and got the best guidance.
Fantastic explanation with multiple watches and combinations. I started thinking my new Casio watch is screwed up but with this enlightenment I'm seeing the unseen face of the world. 👏 Can't thank you enough!
Thank you, you explained it well. I changed the date on my watch manually, I was freaking out thinking I should not of done that, luckily it was set in the late morning. Thank you for this neat work around.
Great video, Alessandro!
Thank you very much for the great advice, Alessandro!👍
Thank you for making this video! I wasn’t able to find the answer by googling, but your video came up and answered exactly.
This was very helpful. The date kept changing at noon and I didn’t know why but now it’s fixed
Thank you Alessandro! I appreciate you. Really helpful videos! More power to your channel! 👍✨💯
Thanks so much! Your explanation was very clear.
Oh my goodness I'm saving this video!!!!!! I almost returned my orient that's coming tomorrow and your video helped me out soooo much thank you.
Thank you veru much! This has helped me big time in setting the date of my Seiko 5. 😊
Amazing explanation, i learn it for my day date tissot. Thanks
Dude!! Thanks!!!! This video was super helpful!!!!
Most needed video I loved it ❤
Great info here! Thank you!
Very informative video, thank you..just getting into automatics and I was pretty sure I knew what I was doing but yeah didn't want to screw up a expensive Omega I have coming.
Excellent video, thank you!
Very useful video thanks!
The best videos ever about setting an automatic watch thanks alot
Thank you very much for this video. It really helped me understand the way date change works and now I can confidently change the date anytime I want simply by changing the time first in order to avoid the dangerous time window! Just something I wanted to mention, my seiko watch came with a little booklet and there it says before changing the date i should set the date on the previous date. Is that important and if so in which way? Thanks alot again.
what a helpful video! learning to set a mechanical watch between a.m. and p.m., and without damaging it, is not intuitive, but this video makes me feel like professional swiss watch expert. I feel like I have set my day/date at the 1st of the month after 9pm at least once or twice already (!!) so hopefully have not damaged the mechanism. So far it is still keeping good time (seiko NH36)
Very informative... NEVER knew this... I still think it's odd @ 6:21 why the day hasn't fully changed till Sunday until 4am - why do you think that is? My Seiko SNK807 was doing that and thought it was weird but I see it's normal. Thank you again
The explanation and instructions were very thorough.
Thank you great advise!
Omg you are a life saver. I thought that my watch is broken, Thank youuuu :)
You really like Japanese automatics. Nothing wrong with that I have a few myself. But I have a real fondness of my Tags and Livs.
That is such a clear explanation.
nicely explained brother. thanks
Amazing video | great observations
Thank you best explanation on setting watches - absolutely fantastic Thank you again 😁
very very good . thank you for that video.
Gee… thx so very much for this. I’ve finally decided to dump my smartwatch and go back to an analog time piece. You saved me a lot of time in showing me this neat trick. Thx again
This is such an important detail that I'm surprised it isn't included in most watch manuals by default! 😲
Amen to that. They really ought to include an information leaflet warning users not to make this mistake.
They make money off repairs
At first, I thought my new watch is broken, u saved my time to revisit the store, Big Thanks 🙏
I never knew this! My dad gave me a Sekio baby tuna watch and there was a problem with the day/date, the first stop when I pull the crown out does nothing I can only change the day/date when I pull it to the second stop which also changes the time I can manage to get the day/date right by changing the time back and too from around 9pm to 3am. So it must be broken somewhere but I can still manage to get it right would it be expensive to repair?
Great video .Thanks
Every watch is different (sometimes the clutch engages at different times for the date change). But as a general rule of thumb i ALWAYS set the time to 6 o clock before I do the quick adjust on the date.
Thanks for the tip! I have just broken my date mechanism before watching your video. Good enough it is just one watch. I will be so courteous inorder not to break my other ones. Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this video, God Bless! ❤
i have a quartz jacob jensen chronograph with 3 dials. lost the instructions. but at any time do i use countercounter clockwise movement? how do i know if counterclock wise is okay with my watch for date?
Hi sir. I got a mechanical orient. I didnt know this rule about 9pm and 3am, i changed the time and date at 00:15am. How to fix this issue and did i realy break my watch?
Thank you!
Oh so it's not a horrible thing to change the time when it's between 9pm and 3am, just the date. I get it now haha. For some reason I always thought it is bad to change ANYTHING when it is between 9pm and 3am. Thanks for clearing it out with many examples!
Noooo time is okay! 😉👍
Same for me, I thought that I would break my watch by changing time when the hour hand was in that unsafe area, now I see that it's only the date 😂
Dickhead lol🤣
well to change the time a lot of the time you’ll have to change the date before you change the time because you should NEVER move the time or date backwards. That will for certain destroy the movement.
It is if you go backward. The date/day wheels are supposed to move only in one direction, if you are at 3am and you move the time backward to 10pm "of the previous day" you seriously risk to damage the movement.
Very helpful, thank you for this video! What if you accidentally changed the date between the “danger zone” not by the quick change setting but by forwarding the time from say 10 pm to 1 am? Does that damage the mechanism? Thanks again.
that's how the watch works. he even does what you said in the video
Thanks for the really helpful video! But you shouldn't say "Don't change the date between 9pm and 3am", but rather "when your watch's time is set anywhere between 9pm and 3am". Those are different things. The way you put it, I'm afraid it's misleading. It all gets cleared out when you watch the whole video, though. Cheers!
Thank you, I needed this
Lol
I bet you drink shampoo if it doesn’t come with a huge warning label :)
How can I fix m rolex submariner that the date changes exactly at 00:00? Right now it changes like 6min after midnight. And I did the mistake as well but I learned now when not to change the date...thank you.
I just did it by accident and now my time adjust in the opposite direction. counterclockwise moves the hands forward. what just happened and can i fix it myself?
This is brilliant thanks so much for your help, I thought my watch date was broken but no, the time was back to front 😅
Thank you for the good information👍👍👍🌹
Some say that is better to set the date from the first option of the crown and never from the second...is that correct?
thank you for your information/content very helpful
What is your opinion on the Hamilton broadway chronograph automatic with the H-21 moment ?
How do you know if you damaged it? Everything seems to be working. But I was too close to 9 and tried changing the date and I could feel it. So I stopped. But now I’m worried I damaged something
Thank you so much!
I have a question it's about my Quartz watch. Casio Duo (AKA) The Marlin. I was putting my watch on my arm. When I noticed that the day. Was still on the 1st when it should be on the 2nd day. My watch is new but I don't understand why it did not change the day right. Thank You.
Thank you, man.
The saviour. Thank you so much bro!!!!
So for short, first set the time to 5 am/pm, then set the date (day) to the previous day, then set the hands to the correct time and the correct date (day).
What if the watch goes to 31 in a 30 day Month? For example its 1 Oct and watch shows 31 September
@@broken8990 When setting the date to the precious day (step 2), set 29 if current day is 30, and set 31 if current day is 1. If you are already wearing it (it's running), just advance one day between 5am/pm and 7am/pm, and not worry about changing time.
@@7itese840 So in that case on the 1 you can set only the date between 5am and 7pm, without changing the time, because it is already in the safe time zone?
Completely hosed an expensive watch doing this the wrong way. Had to go in for factory service.
Excellent. Thanks.
Once I changed the date on my Hamilton at 8:30pm (says not to change between 9pm and 2am). the action felt normal but the next day I was surprised to see the date still on the same number. I fast forwarded the hours to go through a full day and it changed over. Happy to find out I didn’t break my first watch lol
Wait...Even if you screw it up, if you just go over 24 hours, you fix it????
@@aleontecristian9260 no, I got lucky
@@KevAlberta is the watch still ok?
Just bought my first watch and I think that I changed the date at the danger hour .. what's the risk ...
@@julienxie1110 If a watch broke just by changing the date during the "forbidden hours" that would mean the watch and it's mechanism is shit. No modern good watch is going to be demaged by doing this.
I have had many mechanical and automatic swiss watches during my life, I have changed the date and the time during the "forbidden hours" countless times and all of those watches still after years work completely fine. It's not only me, plenty of watch collectors I know have done that as well, never had an issue.
If your watch breaks while going backwards with the watch hands or you set the date during "forbidden time" it means you have a shitty quality watch.
The gears are worn out now, open the back case and see it for yourself
I have day date Hamilton like yours and it is now changing day and date 15 min. Before midnight, how to fix this ?
When to adjust time & date after travelling between towns in 12 hours time zone disparity then? What should i refer to? The initial time zone or the destination? Thanks
Hey, should I wind the watch before setting starting to set the date and time.
And if the time that what to set it to is between 9 and 3, then I should put the date one day before. Or always when setting the time.
hi
Is this method of setting the date also valid for quartz watches?
Just bought an automatic watch recently, i'm not sure i set the date in the correct time position or not before, but now I'm glad i watch your video so i will do the right thing before messing my new watch.
But i have one question, before i watch your video the day on my watch showing the secondary language almost all day long and only showing the primary language between 12-03 AM. But now after i set the day&date properly like you suggested, the day showing the primary language almost all day long and only showing the secondary language between 12-03 AM. Question is... Can i switch it back like before? Or now is the correct condition n i'm not supposed to change it. If can, then how?
Thank you in advance
Next time you set the watch and date, set it in the date in the language you desire, the secondary language will run for a short period, and for the long period, the language u chose will run.
Thank you sooooo much
So let's say i'm at 1 July but my watch show 31 June, can I just adjust the date to 1 July at the 5:00am and all set? I mean if i can sure my watch is at 5:00am or out of danger zone, i can just change the date right away, right?
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Very helpful 🤙🤙🤙
I have TREBOR chronograph watch. Unlike other watches which start changing the date at 10:00pm It start changing the date at 9:00pm. Is it normal? or does it require service. Appreciate your reply
Just got my first automatic watch a seiko 5 is there any way for the watch to now what month it is will the watch show 31 even if there is only 28 or 30 days in the month?
I was literally going to return my new Alba watch to the store since I was unable to adjust the date.thanks!!!!
I changed the date during 9pm -3am will it be damaged
I'm late to the party but this was so helpful!!! Thank you!!!
Right - can you change the time on your watch between those times? Daylight savings kicks in here tonight so i rolled my time back by an hour (not the date) so it read 11pm instead for midnight….
So, if I understand correctly, I can in fact change the time (anytime night or day) - but do not adjust the date wheel during 9 pm - 3 am ? Is that essentially correct ?
how do you change the time with no date adjustment on the watch?
If i want to make correction can turning backwards the time when set it on the correct time? Or it is not good
Suppose you have the watch hand set at "six".. It wouldn't matter if the movement was AM or PM right, would just set the date to day before and wind the time?
Actually I hate day/date on watches because extra features makes dial asymmetrical which is bad for aesthetics. Best watch for me has no more than three hands on the same axle (and full set of Arabic numbers -> typical military style watches). Even when I wore my Seiko 5s I didn't care if it showed 25 on the 14th or Monday at Friday. But what about setting time? Can I do that anytime? And I think it's applies for "ghost date" watches as well. Some microbrand loves to use common date movements (NH35 and YN55 instead of NH38), can I change time also anytime? Thank you for your help! :-)
Cool just broke my 3 months old automatic Seiko, as this wasn't mentioned in the manual and the watch was a gift so i never had a chance to speak to the sales person about the typical do's and don'ts
Same bro I just fucked my lorus watch by doing it aswell
do you have to manually adjust the date for every alternate month?
Very helpful
Thanks for a great demo. Btw, may l know the model name and number of your Orient watch?
I thought I could change the date, as long as the hour hand is not between 9 and 3. Didn't know it had to be at 5 or if there's any difference by doing it at 5 am or 5 pm. Please clear this out for me
I have a watch with sub dials.
When it reached 12midnight
The Date and 24hours dial changed except the the Day of Week. I noticed the day of week changed at 3am or 4am. 🥴 Why is that so. . Haist. .
Thank you!