As a lover of automatics with date (and even better day/date) and after a lot of research here and other sources, I came up with a ‘Universal Date Time setting process”.

This has led me to two main questions as I’ve now been using this for a couple of years.

First the process itself. This is assuming a stopped watch, but would also apply if running and needing to advance the date each month:

Get it running (manual wind, or wear it for 15 minutes).
Pull the crown out to the time setting…

Universal Date / Time safe method and mechanism wear