Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] completely ON TOPIC post about wristwatches
From: simon.apekop at gmail.com (simon jessurun)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:03:03 +0200
References: <9F07836ED74F1C42AA69DFBAF8A1E2F13A2AB6829C@MBX1.asc.local> <4C06A04C.6020305@panix.com>

A watchmakers way of doing it is pull out the crown and slide it along the
side of a wooden table That way evnen turning through a whole year is done
in seconds.
Best
simon

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Rei Shinozuka <shino op panix.com> wrote:

> ha.  try using an omega speedmaster day-date.  if you overshoot setting the
> days by one (applying just an extra foot pound per second per second), you
> have to roll through 364 days and 12 months to get back to where you wanted
> to be.
>
> or, if you are in the months of feb,apr, jun, sept or nov and relatively
> close to the end of the month, put up with being 24-hours-displaced for a
> fortnight.
>
> -rei
>
>
> On 06/02/2010 01:46 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>
>> I have a Bulova Accutron, like all the cool kids. In short months I need
>> to spin the hands around an absurd number of times to get the date from 
>> "30"
>> to 1 and it's rubbing all the skin off of my Shutter Pressing Finger which
>> is seriously impacting my photography (by "seriously" I mean "not 
>> really").
>> Is there some sort of stem wrench that jewelers use for doing that? Or
>> should I just clamp my electric drill around the thing?
>>
>> Kyle "BoneFinger" Cassidy
>>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] completely ON TOPIC post about wristwatches)
Message from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) ([Leica] completely ON TOPIC post about wristwatches)