Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >