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You have just acquired an automatic watch and you wonder how to adjust it? Do not panic, Swiss Made Watch magazine gives you all the steps to follow to carry out each of the operations in the rules of the art!
How to put an automatic watch?
When you adjust an automatic watch, the very first step is to reassemble its movement using its crown, namely the small button generally located on the right edge of the case.
If you have a diving watch or a waterproof reference to 100 meters, or more, there is a good chance that it is equipped with a screwed crown. If this is the case, start by unscrewing the winder by turning it in the opposite direction of the needles of a watch, you will then be in position 0.
If your watch has a not screwed crownyou have nothing to do to access the position 0.
To reassemble the mechanism of your watch, you only have to turn the crown in the direction of the needles of a watch, that, about thirty strokes. Here, your watch has stored a good amount of energy and should start to come to life before your eyes.
You must now pay the date and time!
How to set the date / day of an automatic watch?
Before entering the procedure for setting the date of your watch, know that there is a small precaution to take…
Indeed, you must be careful not to pay the date of your watch if the needles thereof is positioned Between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m.. Indeed, it is the ” death zone », A time slot in which any manual change of date or day could damage the teeth of the disc (s) which are possibly already in action.
If you have a doubt, see the next point (How to set the time for an automatic watch?) and advance the needles of your watch until the date changes by itself. Get out of this “death zone” by positioning yourself, for example, at 6 am. In this way, you can manually change the date of your automatic watch without risk of damaging it.
To adjust the calendar of your tocante, pull a little on the crown, you should hear a slight noise, you are in Position 1. Then turn the crown in the direction of the needles of a watch to change the dateturn the crown in the opposite direction of the needles of a watch to set the day. You can pay the date before the day or vice versa, you see!
If your automatic watch is not provided with a date or date complication, you can naturally pass this step.
How to set the time for an automatic watch?
To set the time for an automatic watch, there are two cases …
If you have a dater watchyou just have to shoot the crown from position 0 and you will be Position 1.
If you have a watchyou have to go to Position 2 To set the time. So when you are in position 0, you only have to shoot the crown twice, while if you are in position 1, you only have to shoot the crown a single shot. You see, there is nothing very rocket science.
This may seem paradoxical, but on most automatic watches, you will have to turn the crown in the opposite direction of the needles of a watch to advance the needles in the right direction … of course, there are exceptions but avoid everything Likewise to adjust the time of your watch by backing up the needles, it could be not good for the movement.
Here, you now know how to put an automatic watch, but also how to set up the date and time of the latter. May the watchmaker start!
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