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Good Day,

I've had a 38mm Montbrillant for years and it's practically gone unworn. I'd like to change that and realized I don't know anything about this watch.

Box and paperwork were lost to water damage as the result of a fire (one of the few days I wore it!). Accordingly I lost my manual and have not been able to find a PDF of one online.

Best source for any info on this watch has actually come from this site (see below).

I'm familiar with automatic watches and know that many of them should not have the date changed between various hours. From what I see, that's 10pm to 1am on Breitlings where this applies. Now, I'm not sure if this applies to the movement in this watch or not and am looking for your help.

The actual model number on the case is A41330 and from what I can tell it has the Breitling 41/ ETA 2892 movement.

Rotating the crown at position 2 doesn't seem to do anything. Should this be quick date set or do you have to change the date on this model by rotating the minute hand through the hours, and eventually days?

If the only way to change the date is by moving the minute hand, I assume it's safe to do this at any point?

http://www.breitlingsource.com/watch_de ... nt_91.html

Thanks in advance for your help.

Welcome to BreitlingSource.

There is no quickset date on that movement so you can advance the date by winding back and forth between approximately 9pm and 3am, or simply by advancing the time.

Thanks for the quick reply.

When you say,

"There is no quickset date on that movement so you can advance the date by winding back and forth between approximately 9pm and 3am....."

how do I "wind back and forth" to change the date? Right now, the only way I'm aware of to change the date is advancing the time. Today is the 9th, and the watch is on the 11th. Advancing the time would take quite awhile.

Just want to make sure there's not something I'm missing.

Thanks

Let's just ignore that last post.

When I had the crown in position 2, I was rotating it clockwise expecting the date to change. I know see that in fact it needs to be rotated counter clock wise. You mentioned back and forth, is it a bad idea to continuously rotate it counter clock wise?

Also, noted that the date should only be set between 9pm and 3am.

Thanks again.

My bad, I mistake thought that there was no quickset date function on calibre 41 (no position 2 in other words). On those movements rolling time between 9pm and 3am advances the date by one day every time you go forwards through midnight.