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 Posted: Mon Sep 29th, 2008 12:06 pm
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Topher1556



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e.avery wrote: A watch is a device that measures 24hrs. and then advances the date about 11 degrees.  On a big date the 2 dials are 1 through 3 and the other is 1 through 9.  If you wanted a big date watch to go from 31 to 1 then you have to have an additional complication that counts 31 days and then resets both wheals back to 01.
Ah!  So that would explains the picture I saw of a big-date Bathy's with a "38".