In order for a mechanical watch to show the most accurate time, it must be periodically summed up - even the highest quality watch movement allows for a small error. It would seem a trifling matter, but without attaching importance to this action, you can seriously harm the watch. Especially if they are old, have been functioning for many years, or are particularly delicate.
Instructions
Step 1
Determine if it is possible to move the arrows without touching them with your hands using a special rotating device. If there is a clock feed mechanism, then it is impossible to move the hands with your hands in any case - such an action is simply not provided by the chronometer designer. If there is no mechanism, then there is nothing else but to move the arrows manually, although in this case it is imperative to adhere to several rules.
Step 2
Remember that the hands of a mechanical watch cannot be rotated against the direction of their natural movement. This leads to rapid wear of the watch mechanism or even to its instant breakdown. Even if you need to return the minute hand a couple of divisions back, do not be lazy to depict a daily circle on the watch and move the hands to the required position, smoothly moving them in a manner familiar to the watch mechanism.
Step 3
Please note that it is best to move the hands while the watch is running, that is, when it has run out of winding. If the second hand is in motion, it is better to refrain from setting the exact time seconds per second for now - wait until the clock mechanism freezes. Then, setting the time with a margin of 10-20 minutes, you can wind up the clock, which will then start counting the time exactly from the moment you have chosen.
Step 4
Also keep in mind that not all clocks can be adjusted to the nearest second at all. If only the hour and minute hands can be moved with the help of a rotating device, then there is no need to act in any way on the second, which remains motionless. Again, in this case, there will be a danger of damaging the watch, and the goal of setting the time by several tens of minutes more precisely does not justify this risk. However, the habit of setting the clock correctly develops pretty soon.
