How to set the date on your timepiece.

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Setting the time on your mechanical watch is deceptively simple, but it’s possible to unwittingly damage the delicate movement inside with seemingly innocuous actions. There are just a couple basic rules to remember: 1. only turn the hands clockwise; and 2. only adjust the date more than 3 hours away from midnight. That’s it. But you should also understand why not to do these things, and how to set your watch the correct way.

Mechanical watches require regular attention from the user, such as setting the time and winding. These are the times when you interact most directly with the movement inside, and different watches offer different tactile feedback that is determined by the movement itself as well as how the watchmaker has constructed the case and crown. If you wear the same automatic watch daily or keep it on a winder it will require less frequent setting, but at the very least, most simple automatic watches with a date (that are not perpetual calendars) will require periodic adjustment.

Watch newbies should definitely be aware of these important watch-health guidelines along with other watch maintenance — mostly very simple stuff. Even many longtime watch enthusiasts who follow these rules, however, might not know exactly why they follow them.

Set the date by pulling the crown out to its first position for the vast majority of mechanical watches with a date function.Rotate gently counter clockwise till your desired date.Push the crown back in and you are ready to go!