How To Set Date On Seiko Perpetual Calendar Watch

Seiko Titanium Perpetual Agenda Spotter 8F32 - 004A

First I'll give you the groundwork on the story (and I want to lament a picayune flake ). If you want to know how to change the bombardment or set the date curlicue down.

So the battery in my scout was dying (as indicated the seconds hand updating every two seconds instead of every 2nd). I used information technology like this for several weeks as once I put the spotter on in the morning time after an hour or two it would piece of work normally (maybe one time information technology warmed upwards; seems to me you tin squeeze a bit more juice out of batteries if you warm them up). Anyway, when the appointment stopped updating I decided it was time to get a new battery. Large mistake!

I took it in to the lookout repair identify in sears simply he couldn't get the backplate off (neither could I for that affair; I tried to do information technology myself but it wouldn't go). So, then I took it to a jewelry shop and they pointed me in the direction of a real picket repair shop, "La Swiss" in Richmond, BC, Canada. And that's where my trouble began. Beginning, since this is a perpetual calendar; the normal watch repairman couldn't change the batter considering after irresolute the battery "the watch had to be reset".

Ok, so I left the watch with them so the other guy could get information technology changed. When I picked it upwardly a 24-hour interval or so later everything seemed to be working, and so I paid the extremely inflated BS price of $62 (I almost died when I heard how much information technology price "because information technology was a perpetual calendar"; the terminal sentinel battery I had replaced was similar $8!) But, I figured that $62 was ok since I like the watch, apply it every twenty-four hour period and it lasts for ~vi yrs, so ten bucks a twelvemonth is ok. Nonetheless, the very next twenty-four hour period it started doing the aforementioned thing once again; skipping seconds and non updating the calendar. At first I thought that they hadn't changed the battery at all the first time around and mayhap information technology just started working unremarkably once he opened it upwardly; I didn't know and then I took information technology back.

Again the "knowledgeable" repairman wasn't around and so I had to drop it off and I returned several days later considering I hadn't heard anything and was missing my watch; but he still hadn't looked at it. So after more than a week or hearing nothing I returned merely to notice out that "I had been contacted." When I looked at my picket information technology was in a far worse state than when I'd left it with them (it was at present skipping 5 seconds!). They and told that the battery is fine but the watch "needs an overhaul; substantially a cleaning". The existent kicker was that it was going to cost $192!!!

Needless to say I was a little dumbstruck to hear this; how could a hermetically sealed spotter need a cleaning??? Especially when it's only 6 years former! So I asked them if I the $62 I'd paid to become the battery inverse would come up off that $192 and of course they said no. So I politely refused and took my watch domicile; mystified that it was toast already.

When I got the watch domicile I took off the backplate and at that place's a picayune sticker on the back stating that if y'all swap the batteries within 3 min and then there's zippo to reset; so what did I pay $62 for?!?! Of course the electric current date/month/year wasn't set up correctly on my watch from the repairman.
Interestingly plenty, there'southward also a little notation about what to do if the battery is out for longer than iii min. It says that y'all need to touch the Air-conditioning contact to the + side of the battery for at least 3 seconds. This jumper resets the spotter into its initial mode (you need to have the battery in place for it to piece of work). There are a full of v jumpers/contacts on the back of the watch labeled "Y", "M", "D", "0", and "Air-conditioning+" Past playing around with the crown and the jumpers I was able to effigy out how to correctly set the year/month/day for my watch; read below for instructions.

Lesser line: the dude at La Swiss is incompetent and overcharges for doing zip. I'd be actually miffed if I hadn't figured out how to reset the lookout man on my own.

All the pics here I stole from a Japanese website http://akiyose.com/battery-exchange/sei ... -004a.html so hopefully they don't listen.

Here'south a link to the Seiko User Manual http://www.seikowatches.com/back up/ib/ ... 2_8F33.pdf

Here's some shots of the watch and model number; my numbers are the same but I take a bluish face instead of the silver one.

How to change the battery:
Remove the back cover by twisting the cover counter-clockwise (unscrew it) (a pair of pliers should work if you're careful)

Supervene upon the bombardment inside three min so that the current date is not lost
The battery is a "CR 2412" 3V Lithium (Seiko). Notation that the + side goes OUT, ie if your spotter backplate is off you lot will be looking at the plus side; the negative side is towards the watch face up.
In that location is a horizontal tab that clips the bombardment in identify (tiptop left of picture show). I found the best way to go the battery out is to pry underneath the apartment tabs between the "Ac+" and "D" and the "1000" and "0". Have note of the gold contacts beside these letters; they are jumpers.

The red pic is an insulator used to forbid the –ve side of the bombardment shorting out with the metal plate (it's +ve) so put it back in place if you take it out!

Install the new battery past sliding it up against the rigid tabs and then slipping it with the flexible tab. Information technology will snap in nicely if you do it right.

If y'all change the batter speedily plenty your date should exist retained and at that place's nothing to exercise simply put the backplate on again (be certain you don't pinch the o-ring).

How to correctly reset the date:

If your watch is AFU or the date is wrong and yous desire to set it, here'south how to do it:
Install the battery and so that the lookout man is working ordinarily (ie the seconds easily is moving; information technology doesn't matter if it's doing the 1, 2, or v second thing, so long as it's moving). Get yourself a small piece of wire/newspaper clip and bend it into a U.

Carefully place one cease of your spring on the "AC+" contact (tiptop right in to a higher place photograph) and then bear on the peak of the bombardment (+ side) for AT LEATS 3 seconds. The seconds hand will cease moving when you lot have the jumper in place. When you lot remove the jumper the seconds hand should start moving at ane second intervals (normal operation).

You can check the electric current year/calendar month/engagement as follows:

The date displayed is the current appointment setting (who woulda guessed!?)

The year is checked by pulling the crown out one click and and then pushing information technology in again within 1 2nd. This will advance the seconds hand either five, 10, 15, or xx seconds (corresponding to i, two, three or 4 years since the last bound year fyi 2004 was a spring twelvemonth). Then it will alter the date to the current month (1 = jan, ii = feb etc). Then it volition go back to normal performance (ie fix the engagement and update the seconds hand). When I checked this with my watch I was one year past a spring year and the calendar month was may (actually 3 years and dec).

So, to quickly set the set (I suppose you could twist your crown thousands of times as well!) exercise the following:

Pull the crown out and then that you are setting the time. To prepare the Year, run your jumper between "Y" and the "+" side of the bombardment. The date dial volition now go to the electric current year (I THINK; at to the lowest degree it went to five for me, which makes sense since it'due south 1 year since the last bound year). So, to advance the yr but brand contact betwixt Y and + again. You should exist able to hear the engagement dial updating and it says half dozen. Repeat until the desired year turns upward. Later on setting the year to 7 I pushed in the crown and checked my leap years again and it correctly showed that there was 3 years since the final leap year; adept sign.

Follow a like procedure for setting the month and appointment; merely pull out the crown and so make contact between the jumpers.

And then that's all at that place is to information technology; not then hard afterwards all. And it's certainly not worth $62!!! Damn "La Swiss"

I don't know what the "0" jumper is for. When I offset started my seconds mitt was updating every five seconds then I pretty much jumped every contact inside; perhaps the 0 contact (it really has a line through it a la phi) just you might want to spring that contact also in if the above instructions don't piece of work for y'all

A bit more than info:
Apparently yous can remove the crown past twisting it counter clockwise; I don't know what position it should exist in to accomplish this though (all the fashion in, one click out, or 2 clicks out: I couldn't get it to unscrew)

So if yous manage to remove the crown then you could look at the whole movement…exciting!

Anyway, I hope this helps someone who's having like problems equally I did!

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