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Watch Setter
Set a mechanical watch to the second
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Set a mechanical watch to the second
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A tiny utility for one job: setting a mechanical watch. A countdown with haptics tells you when to push the crown in, with the time to set the hands to right below it. The date, day, month, year, GMT hand and moon disc clicks are on the same screen. A status line says whether it's safe to quickset the date. The clock is checked against Apple's time server. No account, no ads, no data collected.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Rafal, and I made Watch Setter.
I have a mechanical Khaki Field that I sometimes leave for a couple of days, so I need to set it fairly often. Apple Clock only has seconds on the home screen, and it dims at inconvenient moments. So I built something that works better.
It counts down to the next minute with haptic taps, and prompts you to push the crown in at 59 seconds, so there is time for you to react and for the mechanism to start.
I also added every settable complication I could, so whatever watch you have, you can set it from one screen:
The time to set the hands to, checked against Apple's time server
Date, day, month and year for the calendar windows
The GMT hand on a 24-hour scale, in any zone
Clicks to advance the moon disc from new or full moon, for either hemisphere
A warning between 9 PM and 3 AM, when quicksetting the date can damage the movement
It's $2.99 once, for iPhones on iOS 26. No account, no ads, no analytics. The only network call is the time check.
This will not change the world, but I use it every time I set the watch.