Seiko Monster - Changing Date

[parapaul]

AIUI, adjusting the date after 9pm can royally bugger up the innards of these watches. So, wise ones, I have a question...

How does one know (without observing the wrong date for 24 hours) whether the watch thinks it is 9pm or 9am?

[fluffnik]

parapaul said:

AIUI, adjusting the date after 9pm can royally bugger up the innards of these watches. So, wise ones, I have a question...

How does one know (without observing the wrong date for 24 hours) whether the watch thinks it is 9pm or 9am?

I think the problem only applies to attempting to quick-set the date at the same time as the watch is doing it, so:

Wind it forward through 12, if the date changes it was midnight, if not, noon...

I don't have a Monster but that's what I do with my "5"s of various calibre.