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Manually changing date 8900
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·Interested to see responses, following...
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Archer
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If that’s the way you are going to use it, I guess it doesn’t really matter.
But to me this much use every month isn’t going to be likely to impact the life of the hour wheel.
Cheers, Al
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hen
·Why do you do that? Arent you out of sync whit everyone elses calendar? Is it a menstrual thing, you are trying to get pregnant?
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Yehoshua
·Why do you do that? Arent you out of sync whit everyone elses calendar? Is it a menstrual thing, you are trying to get pregnant?
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·No. I am a Jew. We use our ancient calendar which is a lunar one but balanced by the sun (so that the holidays fall consistently in the same seasons). Living in Israel, I relate to the calendar daily and not just for holidays. I am used to jump dating my watches but was always hesitant about the 8900. (Especially leery after having had date wheel problems even when not having made the frequent date adjustments).
Very interesting. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would use that complication in a different manner than the obvious one. I wonder what other things people may make use of in different ways
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hen
·No. I am a Jew. We use our ancient calendar which is a lunar one but balanced by the sun (so that the holidays fall consistently in the same seasons). Living in Israel, I relate to the calendar daily and not just for holidays. I am used to jump dating my watches but was always hesitant about the 8900. (Especially leery after having had date wheel problems even when not having made the frequent date adjustments In fact it's being serviced its second time).
How interesting! Are there special watches made for this?
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Yehoshua
·How interesting! Are there special watches made for this?
All the best!
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Jensop
·No. I am a Jew. We use our ancient calendar which is a lunar one but balanced by the sun (so that the holidays fall consistently in the same seasons). Living in Israel, I relate to the calendar daily and not just for holidays. I am used to jump dating my watches but was always hesitant about the 8900. (Especially leery after having had date wheel problems even when not having made the frequent date adjustments In fact it's being serviced its second time).
thank you for explaining.
Somebody should make a watch with this complication.
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hen
·Well I just had to do a bit of googleing:
Alain Silberstein Hebraika Hebrew Calendar Watch | aBlogtoWatch
Not realy my taste in watches, but it makes for an interesting dial.
Interesting stuff its like a coelacant or something, living ancient culture. Does it make problems with international contact, misunderstanding of dates and the like?
Alain Silberstein Hebraika Hebrew Calendar Watch | aBlogtoWatch
Not realy my taste in watches, but it makes for an interesting dial.
Interesting stuff its like a coelacant or something, living ancient culture. Does it make problems with international contact, misunderstanding of dates and the like?
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Yehoshua
·Well I just had to do a bit of googleing:
Alain Silberstein Hebraika Hebrew Calendar Watch | aBlogtoWatch
Not realy my taste in watches, but it makes for an interesting dial.
Interesting stuff its like a coelacant or something, living ancient culture. Does it make problems with international contact, misunderstanding of dates and the like?
Thanks for looking that up.
For me, misunderstandings occur because of the time we change dates: the gregorian calendar has the date change at midnight while we have the date change at sunset, whatever time that may be.
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·Very interesting. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would use that complication in a different manner than the obvious one.
How interesting! Are there special watches made for this?
The OP is not asking about a perpetual calendar watch, just a watch with a date wheel, so it's funny that people think it would be necessary to have a different complication for people who use a lunar calendar, or even that he is using the watch in a special way. He is using it in a totally normal way, just with different months. The only difference would be making a 30-day date wheel (since that is the maximum length of a lunar month) instead of 31-day, which seems trivial and not worth the trouble.
the gregorian calendar has the date change at midnight while we have the date change at sunset, whatever time that may be.
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PandaSPUR
·This is a pretty interesting topic, thanks for sharing!
I'm gonna guess that jumping the hours more frequently to change the date wont cause a noticeable decline in the life of your watch. Seems like this is the case based on what Archer said too.
For your 8600 that had issues with the date wheel, any chance that was because you were jumping the date close to midnight?
Personally, I would just get a no-date watch if I were in your scenario.
I'm gonna guess that jumping the hours more frequently to change the date wont cause a noticeable decline in the life of your watch. Seems like this is the case based on what Archer said too.
For your 8600 that had issues with the date wheel, any chance that was because you were jumping the date close to midnight?
Personally, I would just get a no-date watch if I were in your scenario.
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Yehoshua
·This is almost as silly as asking if there is a special watch made for daylight saving time.
The OP is not asking about a perpetual calendar watch, just a watch with a date wheel, so it's funny that people think it would be necessary to have a different complication for people who use a lunar calendar, or even that he is using the watch in a special way. He is using it in a totally normal way, just with different months. The only difference would be making a 30-day date wheel (since that is the maximum length of a lunar month) instead of 31-day, which seems trivial and not worth the trouble.
You could have a watchmaker adjust your watch so that the date changes more closely to
This is a pretty interesting topic, thanks for sharing!
I'm gonna guess that jumping the hours more frequently to change the date wont cause a noticeable decline in the life of your watch. Seems like this is the case based on what Archer said too.
For your 8600 that had issues with the date wheel, any chance that was because you were jumping the date close to midnight?
Personally, I would just get a no-date watch if I were in your scenario.
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PandaSPUR
·The 8900 is impervious to the problem of date change at midnight. What happens is that it just spontaneously gets stuck between various dates about once every 4 or 5 weeks. First time it was diagnosed as having a loose screw. It's with Omega again and this time they are ordering a new date wheel.
Woops, I read your other post wrong, I thought you were talking about an experience you had with a different watch.
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hen
·This is almost as silly as asking if there is a special watch made for daylight saving time
Remeber Dan there are no silly questiones, just silly answers.
So is there is a special watch made for daylight saving time?
Or to put it in another way. If we dont ask silly questiones, how are we going to learn? If I didnt ask the first silly question I had not learnt about another calendar thats in use by lots of people.
Stop answering silly and start asking the silly questiones, you might learn something.
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