You can find analogue as well as digital wristwatches in varied case sizes. Techno Pavé is known for its Hip Hop wristwatches that are meant to add some bling to your ensemble. Besides watches with diamond accents, you can also explore pieces with backlight, date indicators, tachymeters, or many other features.

Charles Raymond is just more bling-encrusted dross with a Japanese quartz movement assembled in Singapore. Their products only value is that consumers can get a cheap looking watch at a cheap price, like the MSRP $24.99 watch.

Press down with considerable force and turn counter-clockwise. If the case if circular, place the Bergeon 5337 case opener over it. This case opener must be pressed down and turned counter-clockwise simultaneously. Remove the watch case.

Press the button once to display the time, and then press and hold the button for 3 seconds to select the right hour and minutes. You can even set the date by doing the same thing. Once your watch has the correct time and date, avoid touching the button to save the settings.

You probably don’t give much thought to when you set your watch –if you notice that your watch is not showing the proper time or date, you set right away. However changing the date when your watch is showing between 9pm and 3am can cause damage to the watch – the date should never be changed during this time period.

Wrong date change! The reason is quite simple, the watch gears (dials, cogs) work on a 24 hour cycle (actual hours in a day), versus just 12 hours (1-12). When your watch switches at noon instead of at Midnight, that means that your watch cycle is set 12 hours too fast.

By most definitions, the date changes at midnight. That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00. That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean “ante-meridiem” and “post-meridiem”, and noon and midnight are neither ante- nor post- meridiem.

Improperly setting any complication on the watch can cause damages to the movement. Additionally, setting the time backwards rather than forwards can damage the mainspring.

How to tell if a watch is magnetized

1. Put a compass near the watch, and observe if the needle on the compass is attracted by the watch at all. If so, the watch is magnetized.
2. There are apps that utilize the magnetic sensor on a smart phone to detect magnetism.

Anything that becomes magnetised can slowly become demagnetised without intervention. However, a watch could remain magnetised for months or years, keeping it from functioning properly. Fortunately, demagnetising a watch is often a simple process.

Demagnetizing. Watches that have been magnetized won’t suffer any long-term consequences, however they will need to be demagnetized to resume normal function. When your watch is running erratically due to magnetism there is no need to panic; any watchmaker should be able to tackle the job.

The Milgauss has long been Rolex’s antimagnetic watch, taking its name for its ability to withstand 1,000 gauss. When Rolex introduced the newest Air-King model a few years back, the brand equipped the watch with the same Caliber 3131 movement as the current-production Milgauss.

Magnetic fields are not permanently damaging to your timepiece, but they can affect its accuracy or even stop the watch completely. Steel components in your watch are even more sensitive to magnetism and, if magnetised, can create magnetic fields inside the movement, which perpetuates the problem.

When the balance spring becomes magnetized it sticks to itself, which causes the watch to oscillate faster and causes the watch to run fast.

A demagnetizer, also known as a degausser, uses electromagnets to generate intense, high frequency AC magnetic fields. In response, individual domains realign randomly so their magnetic fields cancel or nearly cancel, eliminating or substantially reducing undesired magnetism.

Just like most any other metal material a watch can become magnetized when it comes into contact with certain levels of a magnetic field. The magnetic field can actually cause the individual coils to stick together, having the effect of shortening the spring and thereby speeding up the watch.

Yes, a fully wound watch will run slightly slower than a partially wound watch.. A tighter wound mainspring does not “pull” the watch faster.

It’s not bad to let your automatic watch stop. Automatic watches are perfectly safe when stopped – that is to say that the movement doesn’t run anymore because the mainspring is fully unwound. Just wind again the next time you want to wear it, and you’re good to go.

If a watch suddenly begins running extremely fast (20+ seconds per day to hours fast per day) it is usually an indication that the hairspring coils are magnetized, causing the coils to stick together. This shortens the rotation of the balance wheel and increases the beat rate extremely.

Zenith Defy Lab

I’ve used automatic watches for few years now and the easiest way to check for its accuracy is by using a watch accuracy app and a timegrapher. It’s well known that automatic watch is not the most accurate watch around. An accuracy of +/- 20 seconds per DAY is considered normal.

Mechanical watches have a mechanism that is moved by power generated as the mainspring unwinds, and small metal parts that work together to control accuracy. Also, conditions of use such as regular usage time, movements of your arm and winding state of the mainspring can influence the gain / loss of the watch.