safe window to adjust date?

[DEA]

i have a h3 traser and i remember reading that there's a time window during which you will damage the watch if you adjust the date
is that true? or even accurate nowadays?

 

[Cougar Allen]

There are some mechanical watches that can be damaged if you adjust them during the hours near midnight when they're changing the date. That isn't a problem for any quartz watch.

 

[DEA]

im a watch idiot >.<
what's a quartz watch as opposed to a mechanical watch?

 

[Cougar Allen]

Yours is a quartz watch. It uses a battery and the second hand moves in one-second jumps. It is controlled by a tiny little tuning fork made of quartz crystal.

Mechanical watches are the old-fashioned kind powered by a spring, which has to be wound up either by hand or by an eccentric weight self-winding mechanism. Mechanical watches are still made for aficionados but they tend to be expensive these days....