The obligatory date adjustment!
In two days, many of us will be beset by the chore to adjust the date…accounting for June’s 30 days. Some may need to adjust one watch…others many.
Are we all obsessive to the degree all of our watches must be addressed on Monday…or are some of you chill and conveniently complete the task on a rotational basis?
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Darin
Time dictates my linear path to its bitter end. My watches keep me one step ahead of time…and one foot out of the grave.
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Honestly, unless I'm at work where I want to know the actual day/date, I don't even bother resetting it - I just fix the time and go. Especially if it's an occasional wear watch.
Yet, I don't like time-only watches... I like having the option of having a date when I decide I need/want it 😂
Set them when I wear them.
If I remember.
There should be a law against date functions on non-annuals/perpetuals.
That's why I prefer no date watches,but like most on here I own several days date ,I only reset the ones I'm wearing because next month I'll be wearing different ones
I did it this morning 🤷♂️
Honestly, unless I'm at work where I want to know the actual day/date, I don't even bother resetting it - I just fix the time and go. Especially if it's an occasional wear watch.
Yet, I don't like time-only watches... I like having the option of having a date when I decide I need/want it 😂
Indeed…a paradox.
Set them when I wear them.
If I remember.
I know the older I get…the more often I am victim to the latter.
There should be a law against date functions on non-annuals/perpetuals.
Albeit a modern times law.
That's why I prefer no date watches,but like most on here I own several days date ,I only reset the ones I'm wearing because next month I'll be wearing different ones
Isn’t this the snare common to watch collectors? Not enough wrist time because we’ve got two drawers-full of watches.
Thanks, you just reminded me!
Whenever I wear it next, it gets set then.
I did it this morning 🤷♂️
Forethought and initiative!
Whenever I wear it next, it gets set then.
A good method!
I have 7 watches with a date complication. Tomorrow I will set the date to 31 on all of them so it will be correct on Monday. Yes, I am a bit obsessive about it!
Isn’t this the snare common to watch collectors? Not enough wrist time because we’ve got two drawers-full of watches.
Certainly is
Well, I own one watch (an unwanted gift, I hasten to add) where that strategy would give you Monday the 32nd. The price for a cheap big date.
Ha ha! What? The 32nd?!? That would be interesting!
I adjust when I wear it next. There’s just too many.
I set them when I wear them.
Set them when I wear them.
If I remember.
^^^This
I have 7 watches with a date complication. Tomorrow I will set the date to 31 on all of them so it will be correct on Monday. Yes, I am a bit obsessive about it!
That’s a good idea!
With a couple hundred mechanical watches which have date complications, I wait until I wear a watch to set the time and date. 😃
That would be quite the process!
I am, love when I have to adjust all of my watches.
I adjust my watches when I wear them, whether the quartz or the mechanical ones. I used to change their time when we moved the time back or forward in winter or summer, but that no longer happens around here.
I set when about to wear. Don’t mind at all.
Rotational adjustment. 👍
I just reset the watch - takes no time and not a big deal
I usually just change them when I wear them that's my I love my citizen satellite and radio controlled models
I have multiple watches that have date functions. I adjust them as I wear them, no need to sit down and adjust them all at once.
I'll adjust the one on my wrist and the one quartz watch with a date complication I own (for grab-and-go purposes). For any non-running automatics, the rule "We'll burn those bridges when we come to them" applies.
The worst part for me is the GMT watches. I always forget which way to turn the crown, and end up moving the GMT hand instead of the date. So then I have to correct the GMT hand AND the date. It's literally the worst thing that can EVER happen to a person!