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Hi

I am not sure whether to be proud or ashamed, but I've looked through all 32 pages on this help forum and learnt a tremendous amount about Breitling watches. I'm loving my superocean steelfish which I've had for two weeks, (which is actually 9 months old, I bought it 2nd hand with all paperwork etc). And it gains 1 second a day and has a 42 hour reserve, so it's in perfect running order.

Ok, the question. I travel a lot and want to wear the watch on my travels. When I am flying west i need to wind the time back, eg from the UK to New York it needs to go back 5 hours...

I know that I must NOT adjust the time backwards (or quick change the date) between 8pm and 3am so it would be done outside of that time period.

Outside of those times, am I ok to carefully wind the hands back 5 hours???

The alternative is winding them forward 19 hours and wind the date forward 30 days, and as long as it's ok, I suspect there is less wear in going backwards 5 hours.

Any advice gratefully received!

And thanks for a really brilliant forum!

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Martin

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Breitling E17370 titanium Avenger Seawolf yellow face
Tag Heuer Carrera dad date calibre 16
Omega Speedmaster Tintin
Tissot PRC automatic day-date

As long as the entire five hour period falls outside of the 8pm to 3am window then you'll be fine. There are some high complication watches where it's an issue - minute repeaters being the most usual example, but you'll be fine with a Steelfish.

Thanks Roff, we all owe you much gratitude for your helpful, knowledgable and speedy responses on here. Many thanks indeed.

Martin

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Martin

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Breitling E17370 titanium Avenger Seawolf yellow face
Tag Heuer Carrera dad date calibre 16
Omega Speedmaster Tintin
Tissot PRC automatic day-date

To follow up on Roff's point - if it is 5am and you wind it back five hours, you could be in trouble. You may actually find it quicker to simply change the date back one day and then forward to the current date and correct time. As long as you are not changing the quick date between 8pm-3am, you are fine.

I know it's easier for me to do it that way. at 5 hours time difference, the danger zone extends all the way to 8AM if you are reversing the time 5 hours.

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SHARKMAN

Thanks guys, I hadn't considered accidentally rolling the time back into the danger period, you're right to point it out. Luckily I'm flying at 2pm (and change the time to destination time at take off) so I will be fine on this occasion.

I don't think there's a thread on this so I hope it's useful to other people too!

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Martin

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Breitling E17370 titanium Avenger Seawolf yellow face
Tag Heuer Carrera dad date calibre 16
Omega Speedmaster Tintin
Tissot PRC automatic day-date

Ok, dumb question..........

Which Breitling's allow you to wind the date backwards??

All do - forward the date to yesterday's date. Same thing you would do if the watch stopped and you wanted to set the date and time, not knwing whether you were in AM or PM. I guess I thought it was....implied.

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SHARKMAN

Sorry, I misunderstood