I have run marathons wearing the watch, and can even explain my quirky arm movements and perhaps even my bad posture as being-by products of the watch. Well, we'll see. When February ends I must manually push the stem of my watch in, three times, to make it go around to March 1, otherwise I am three days off, due to the short month. Remember, this is a self winding antique that I wear. There is no preinstalled digital memory of how the years will play out.
All adjustments depend upon the vigilance of the wearer.
Today, March 2, I looked at the watch for the first time this month and discovered the three day lag. Because of deeply embedded encrustation and grunge in the stem, this adjustment is an operation best accomplished with a hefty device, such as a 16 penny nail. A chore, you might think, to have to fool with setting the date on the watch. You might think that, but you'd be wrong, because it is actually with a feeling of pleasure at having cheated old man winter out of three days that I push the stem three times, as I magically watch the date change from Feb 30 to March 2, knowing that I have managed to get through one of the longest short months, and can now face the most drawn out month of them all, March, the month that promises much but delivers little. You can't tell me that the Indians who lived here before we built our little picket fence town were thrilled about March.