Adjusting mechanical date watch

Even chronograph.com is not located in the U.S., it ships and probably operates in Singapore.

BTW, I just received an identical watch yesterday from a trade (thanks corwin99:thumbup: ). Same model, different color- navy blue.
 
hwyhobo said:
Adjusting your watch back at that point would affect the date, wouldn't it? Or can I separately and independently adjust time without touching the date?
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Depends on what you are doing during the transition. When switching back, all it does is to add the amount of hours to prevent the next date turn. Since 99% of the time I'm in the air travelling back to the US, having the date wrong for the duration doesn't matter to me.
 
Don Luis said:
I've had a Seiko 5 for several years, the date adjust is similar to other mechanical watches, you can pull out the crown fully to adjust the time or partially to adjust the date.

From the partially pulled out position, turning the crown clockwise will advance the day number, turning it counterclockwise will advance the day name, they only go forward but it is easy and fast to go all around the 31 numbers or 14 names (they come in two languages).

Luis
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That is exactly how my Seiko Sports Chronograph works. Mine has the days in English and French. The rollover starts at about 11.45 p.m. I have had no problems moving the time forwards or backwards 5 hours on many trips between England and Canada. I have had the watch since 1989. It has been factory serviced twice for a clean and battery change, and has had about 3 or 4 battery changes apart from that at jewellers. When you send it to Seiko, you get a signed certificate from the engineer who did the work. I wear it 24 hours a day all year, swimming included. Even the metal strap is still in good condition, black with gold accents. It never loses or gains time and is only changed in Spring and Fall when the clocks change. Great watches IMO.
 
...each month is 31 days, always ...
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Yes this happens in every mechanical watch with date that I know off, you have to manually advance the day to 1 five times per year. It would be very complicated to change every month correctly using gears in a mechanical watch, even if you don't consider leap years.

Seiko does not make many automatic watches available in the USA...
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That's sad, I think that they are good and not expensive. I bought mine at a mall in Mexico City and I see them often over here, not many different models though.

Luis
 
It is easy to change the day and the date in these Seikos. Just bring the crown out to the first click and roll it backwards (I think) to advance the date. The other way for the day. As long as you don't change during the time when the mechanism is advancing to the next date on its own there shouldn't be any problem.

Seiko "5" means, 1.Date, 2.Day, 3.Automatic, 4.Shock Resistant, 5.Water Resistance.

Chad
 
Try the Citizen Blue Angels Navihawks, they adjust for all time zones automatically and make the Seikos you show in your pics look like kids watches! (And yes I do rate Seikos).
 
Oh, no. See, I want a watch that shows time, period. Not azimuths, not phases of the moon, not movements of fish across the Atlantic or any other some such. Clean, easy to assertain correct time at a glance. Citizen Blue Angels Navihawks is so busy, time is almost a side issue. With my eyesight, I would have to get a magnifying glass just to figure out what is going on on that watch. ;)

Here is one of Seiko design equivalents of it. :eek:
 
Be advised, that movement does not have manual wind or hack features. Until properly regulated, not particularly accurate either (well maybe, luck of the draw). On the plus side, it is very easily worked on and pretty bulletproof for the price. That movement is very common amoung Seiko's affordable automatics.
 
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