{"id":1477,"date":"2023-08-09T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2023-08-09T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T22:21:14","slug":"change-date-day-and-time-on-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/change-date-day-and-time-on-watches\/","title":{"rendered":"CHANGE DATE, DAY AND TIME ON WATCHES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Change-Date-On-Watch.gif\" alt=\"How to Change the Day Date On Watches\" title=\"How to Change the Day Date On Watches\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1478\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Everyday someone brings in their watch because <strong>their watch is set wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nPeople get frustrated and don&#8217;t know how to change it.<\/p>\n<p>\n<h2>&#8220;It&#8217;s always off!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\nEither <strong>the date changes at noon<\/strong> instead of midnight, or the day is off, or <strong>the language is in Spanish<\/strong> (like in the picture, <strong>Lun<\/strong> &#8211; short for <strong>Lunes<\/strong>, is Spanish for <strong>Monday<\/strong>. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are: Martes, Miercoles, Jueves, Viernes, Sabado and Domingo. So if you see those, <strong>you&#8217;re seeing Spanish.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><h2>Don&#8217;t fret&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>It&#8217;s easier to fix than you think.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nThe good thing is, changing the date and setting the day is a breeze. All it takes is <strong>a couple of pulls and a couple of twists<\/strong> and you&#8217;ll be good to go.<\/p>\n<p><h2>It&#8217;s all in the stem:<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe stem of your watch is that little ridged knob on the side of your watch face. <strong>If you pull that stem out all the way<\/strong>, you can spin it and it will spin the minute hands and hour hands so that you can set the time on your watch. Most people already know this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nSo if you know that much, <strong>you&#8217;re on the right track<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><h2>The funny thing is:<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>You pulled too much.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nYou see, on watches that have a day and a date, <strong>the stem has a dual purpose<\/strong>. It controls all the settings.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo to change the day and date of your watch, <strong>pull the stem out slowly&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n(Note that if you have <strong>a waterproof watch<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll need to <strong>unscrew the stem counter-clockwise first<\/strong>, which is towards you, until it unlocks, then you can pull the stem out as described to change the day, date.)<\/p>\n<p><h2>One Snap Two:<\/h2>\n<p>\nThis is what you need to do&#8230; Pull the stem out slowly <strong>and listen for the snap<\/strong> (the stem stops on the first notch). If you pull the stem out all the way, <strong>it snaps twice <\/strong>and ends up on the second notch (see picture below). That second notch is where the stem needs to be <strong>to set the time<\/strong> (but you already knew that).<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Day-Changed.gif\" alt=\"Day Date Changed on Watch\" title=\"Day Date Changed on Watch\" width=\"502\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1479\" \/><\/p>\n<p><h2>The first notch is the secret!<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe key to setting the day and date is<strong> the first notch<\/strong>, or first snap.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the <strong>first notch position<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll see that if you spin the crown one way, it will change the day. Spin it in <strong>the opposite direction<\/strong> and it changes the <strong>date<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><h2>English or Spanish?<\/h2>\n<p>\nDo keep in mind that you may have to spin the day and date a couple of rotations because it most likely will <strong>alternate between English and Spanish<\/strong>. Just pick the correct language for you and <strong>it&#8217;s done.<\/strong> When the day and date are set, push the stem in all the way and enjoy your watch.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you still have the problem with your watch changing dates at noon instead of midnight, that just means <strong>you&#8217;re on the wrong 12 hour cycle<\/strong> (it&#8217;s set for twelve at night instead of twelve at noon). All you need to do is pull the stem all the way out, (<strong>second notch<\/strong>) and spin the minute and hour hands ahead <strong>12 hours<\/strong>. If it&#8217;s twelve o&#8217;clock, spin it ahead until it&#8217;s <strong>twelve o&#8217;clock again<\/strong>. Doing that will put the watch on the <strong>correct 12 hour cycle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nGranted, you may have to reset your day and date again since you just advanced, but at least you&#8217;ll be <strong>in the correct time zone now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Cheers! :)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Everyday someone brings in their watch because their watch is set wrong. People get frustrated and don&#8217;t know how to change it. &#8220;It&#8217;s always off!&#8221; Either the date changes at noon instead of midnight, or <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/change-date-day-and-time-on-watches\/\" title=\"CHANGE DATE, DAY AND TIME ON WATCHES\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1310,1309,1311,1306,1312,150,1308,1307,673],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watches","tag-change-day-on-watch","tag-change-watch","tag-english-on-watch","tag-set-watch","tag-spanish-on-watch","tag-watch","tag-watch-date","tag-watch-time","tag-wrist-watches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}