iwc PORTUGIESER PERPETUAL CALENDAR Mode D'emploi page 23

Setting your watch correctly
To set your watch correctly, proceed as follows:
• Wind the movement until it is fully wound (about 30 revolutions of the
crown).
• Pull out the crown to position 2 and turn the hands forward to approximately
4:40. This ensures that the calendar mechanism is not in the middle of the
automatic switching phase and that you can also see the calendar indica-
tors easily.
• Push the crown to position 0 and pull it back to position 1.
• Slowly turn the crown to the left. The calendar now advances one day at a
time. Set the indicator to yesterday's date, keeping an eye on the month
and the year.
• Pull out the crown to position 2. This will stop the time display.
• Turn the hands forward by continuing to rotate the crown in the anticlock-
wise direction until the date indicator changes to today's date. The hands
will now be positioned between 12 midnight and 1 am.
• Now turn the hands forward to the correct time. If you are setting the
watch in the afternoon, you must turn the hands past 12 (noon) again.
Push the crown back to position 0 to start the watch movement.
The entire calendar is now automatically set correctly. There is no need for you
to know the current phase of the moon or whether you are in a leap year. You
do not even need to set the day of the week. This simplified setting is very con-
venient, particularly if you have not worn your IWC watch for a few days.
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