Regarding those Seiko 5606 movements…

I have one with the common broken plastic quick-set gear. The day/date changes with the time, so I manually adjust them.

What I’ve been doing is setting the day by passing midnight until the day changes, then going backwards until around 8:00pm, then forward again until the day advances; doing that until I get the desired day. I was wondering is there’s a way to adjust the date the same way? It seems the date just goes back and forth to the same date without advancing. Maybe I need to go…

Regarding those Seiko 5606 movements…

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Seiko gen 1 monster

I have a gen 1 I wear at times and I strapped it on Tuesday morning until now (Friday night) and I’m 2 min 15 sec slow…is this ok? I was wearing it from 6:40am to roughly 10 pm each day no over nights. This is a never sell watch that I actually was wearing when I got married . I bought it new in 2011 and it’s been on a lot of trips but still glows like a x mas tree.
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