Is the watch accidentally set 12 hours ahead?

 

Nah. I'm just wondering if has to do with setting it during 9pm-4am which i saw on online manual that can spoil the movement?

 

I'm not sure I fully understand the description of the issue. SII NH36 aka Seiko 4R36 day and date change works (as far as the visible change is concerned!) as following:

- at 22:00 the date starts to change
- at 24:00 the date change finishes
- at 00:00 the day starts to change from primary to secondary language
- at 00:40 or so the day switches to secondary language
- at 02:00 or so the day starts to change from the secondary to primary
- at 03:00 the day finishes.

Does yours behave like this and if not, what's different?

BTW, to adjust the entire time period in which the procedure happens is completely trivial, you don't need to to swap whole movement (??). A watchmaker simply needs to remove and reset the hands. In other words, if yours perhaps starts the whole procedure at 00:00 and finishes at 05:00, thus being 2 hours late, it just needs to have the hands reset.

 

Thanks for the clarification! Btw, the time u referring to is the actual time or the time on the watch (e.g. 22:00 = 10am/pm)?

 

Uhm... time on the watch, of course. How the hell could a watch movement know what the actual time is?? For the watch movement, the time is what you set it to be...

To prevent any misunderstandings:

22:00 = 10pm
24:00 = midnight
00:00 = midnight
02:00 = 2am
03:00 = 3am

So the day/date change visibly takes place between 10pm (22:00 h) and 3am (03:00 h) on the watch. It is still correct that you shouldn't manually operate the change between 9pm (21:00 h) and 4am (04:00 h) as the mechanism is still engaged before and after the visible change takes place.

 

Are you sure its not just 12 hours off?
What time does the date flip?
What time does the day turn from Alpha to Roman? And then Roman to Alpha (next day)?

 

Nope its not. It should have changed to roman numerals day now (2pm) according lightdot's guide but hasnt

 

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With Seiko movements the timing is a little flexible so don’t call out the coastguard if the date doesn’t begin to change bang on 22:00 but things happen roughly when LightDot has said.

 

Hey guys,

I'm new to modding and have recently started using NH36's. When fitting hands I wind the movement until date swaps then fit hands at 12 o'clock, should I be setting them to 10 instead?

Thank you

 

Hey guys,

I'm new to modding and have recently started using NH36's. When fitting hands I wind the movement until date swaps then fit hands at 12 o'clock, should I be setting them to 10 instead?

Thank you

No... ideally the date should change at 12. The wheel starts moving at around 10:30ish.