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·Hey everyone, did you also ever wonder how you can effectively use your Multi-year watch by making it relevant to today's calendar, in case the latest year available on the dial has now passed?
After making a research myself and finding the answer, I decided to post it on the forum, who knows, maybe you also had the same question.
So I've got this lovely Orient Multi Year Calendar Perpetual World Time Automatic, to use its "Spanishly long" name 😁
Whereas it spans from 1970s, the watch's calendar cycle ends in 2015. At first, I was like, "won't it be working for further years??". But then, I've thought, just like old calendars, the watch's calendar must also be resetting itself at some point.
To get to the point, this website solved the puzzle and it seems that calendars have a minimum repeating cycle of 28 years.
So all you have to do is very simple! (Current year) minus 28 (or times 2, 3, 4...) and this is how you set up the year to month part. For 2020, closest previous cycle to use would start in 1992. As you can see below on my watch, it all checks out. However, in 2044, I won't be able to use 2016 as the calendar in my watch ends in 2015. So I will go another 28 years back (total of 56) to 1988.
If your multi year calendar watch has also indicators for more than 28 consecutive years, you can use yours forever by doing this simple maths 😀 please beware that, as written on the webpage above, years can be misleading. You may think that there was also a similar cycle of days and months 5-6 years ago. But the safest minimum cycle would be 28 years.
Hope this is useful to you all. Cheers!
Edit: typo and links correction
After making a research myself and finding the answer, I decided to post it on the forum, who knows, maybe you also had the same question.
So I've got this lovely Orient Multi Year Calendar Perpetual World Time Automatic, to use its "Spanishly long" name 😁
Whereas it spans from 1970s, the watch's calendar cycle ends in 2015. At first, I was like, "won't it be working for further years??". But then, I've thought, just like old calendars, the watch's calendar must also be resetting itself at some point.
To get to the point, this website solved the puzzle and it seems that calendars have a minimum repeating cycle of 28 years.
So all you have to do is very simple! (Current year) minus 28 (or times 2, 3, 4...) and this is how you set up the year to month part. For 2020, closest previous cycle to use would start in 1992. As you can see below on my watch, it all checks out. However, in 2044, I won't be able to use 2016 as the calendar in my watch ends in 2015. So I will go another 28 years back (total of 56) to 1988.
If your multi year calendar watch has also indicators for more than 28 consecutive years, you can use yours forever by doing this simple maths 😀 please beware that, as written on the webpage above, years can be misleading. You may think that there was also a similar cycle of days and months 5-6 years ago. But the safest minimum cycle would be 28 years.
Hope this is useful to you all. Cheers!
Edit: typo and links correction
