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: the date on my seamaster auto took about 3
: minutes to change over after midnight. i
: thought it was supposed to be an instant
: change.
It is instant--when it changes it should quickly click over to the next date. This is as opposed to "slow date change" watches the the quartz SMP where the date takes two hours to slowly roll over to the next date.
Though it is normal for this change to occur not exactly at midnight. Nothing in the watch mechanism actually defines midnight--watches don't understand time themselves, they merely move the hands around at an constant rate. So the part of the mechanism that is designed to move the date forward once every 24 hours has no way of knowing where the hands are actually pointing. There is an internal adjustment that can be used to help synchronize the date change to be very close to when the hands point to midnight.
So if your watch rapidly clicks over to the next dat, but it does it about 3 minutes off from midnight, then it is perfectly fine.
See the link below for details...
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