Changing clock face

Is it a BAT 4045? It appears this is a watch with poor or no instructions and ineffective time/date settings, which might be your situation. I found this review on Amazon which might help you.

Solid w/ a configuration issue
Byartayd2on 8 July 2013 - Published on Amazon.com
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I've seen a few reviews indicating that they could not set the clock or the instructions were not included. While I did get correct instructions, they were not written well and seemed to be the end result of someone translating into English.

I had issues setting the time/date w/ the S2 button initially because of the specific location where you are required to press. It is not sufficient to push the S2 button to begin setting the clock, you really need a pen tip to press it squarely or you will continue to press the button and no time setting options will appear. I originally tried to set the clock by pushing the S2 button with a small thin pair of scissors that were handy but it did nothing even though I was clearly pushing the button into the watch face. After changing to a pen tip it worked right away.

With the exception of the initial time setting frustrations the watch works well and the strap feels strong enough for regular use for my three year old son, and it is pretty cheap!

The analog hands and face are clean looking and manage to give the watch a classic face. It won't turn any heads, positively or negatively. The hands are rather thin and silver which makes it blend in too easily with the face. Stupidly, Casio put a vertical and horizontal silver line on the face which further causes the hands to be visually lost. The hands aren't hard to see, but because they blend they aren't easy to see either. And there is no second hand at all; but the digital portion covers that function.

The digital portion in the bottom can only display two rows of information. So it's either day/date, or time/seconds. The top row is hard to see because the face shadows over it partially. The numbers are on the small side; not for old eyes. The digital portion has all the fundamental functions: time/date, hourly chime, chrono, 3 alarms, count down, dual time, and even "data bank" which is a very crude phone/number data bank.

The LED's are the old 80's yellowish tinge type and do a very poor job of illuminating the face... but if you're in the dark, it'll do the job. The hands have glow in the dark paint on them which also helps you just barely make out the time in the dark.

There is just nothing great at all about this watch; but it does everything you REALLY need a watch to do. Couple this with the 10-year battery, 100M water resistance, and $25 price tag, and you have something that just gets the job done reliably and economically. It might be plain vanilla, but it's real and hits the spot.

If it is this pocket watch, then the crown (the bit you turn to wind the watch) has 3 positions. Position 1 is when the crown is pushed in all the way. Position 3 is when the crown is pulled out as far as it will go. In between position 1 and position 3 is a place where the crown will stop, this is position 2.
To set the day of the week, pull the crown out to position 3 to set the time. When you set the time, the bottom dial with also turn to set the hour on the 24 hour clock, if you turn the crown enough to cycle through a whole day the day of the week dial will also turn. Keep turning the crown until the time is set on the proper day of the week.
To set the date, pull the crown out to position 2, and turn it clockwise until the hand on the date dial points to the correct date.
Hope this helps!

do not pull the stem all the way just half way out. Turn clock wises the date should move. move to correct date. counter clock wises for the day. For the analog hold down the set mode button until it starts to blinking to change number with the start and stop. to change what is blinking press the mode button

the crown of the watch has two clicks, pull it gently once and you can set the date and day, pull it gently again a second time and you can set the time. The proper way to set the time and date is to set first the day,date late at the actual date, then move the hands around the clock until the date change at 12 oclock this is evening, then moving the hands around until you reach the actual time. By doing so you will set the day, date and time in syn to 24 hrs change.

example: you want to change it to sat 12th 11am
set the day and date to fri 11th
then move the hands around clockwise until the day and date change at 12 oclock continue moving the hands until you reach 11am

mcdevito75 here, It takes practice, the crown does have 2 positions, slip a fingernail just under the crown and lift to it"s first position this will allow you to change the DATE (number) once you get the correct Date, push tje crown back in, NOW! pull the crown out to set the DAY itself and the time. On some watches the crowns first position allows both the day and date to be changed by turning the crown in it"s first position clock wise and counter clock wise.

On some analog Timex watches with a day/date window there are only two "pull-out" positions on the stem, one for changing the date and one for the time. To change the day you need to pull the stem all the way out and crank the hands through 24 hour periods until you get the day correct. Be sure that you have the correct AM/PM setting (if you are setting the watch after noon you need to advance the hands another 12 hours so that the day changes at midnight)

Buttons are: A or Adjust (10 o’clock position), B or Time Memo (2 o’clock), C or Mode (8 o’clock), D or Receive (4 o’clock) and L or Light (6 o’clock)
To manually change time, date, year, month and day, hold A until beep and city code appears; press A again until 12H/24H flashes; press C to cycle through options as hour, minutes, year, month, and day flash; use B or D to change flashing option.

so its a chrono watch i belive. well sometimes diffrent models require diffrent operations to set up the display.
Perhaps the manual can be found on the internet site of the watches brand.

Turning it backwards didn't work on my watch. I ended up winding the time ahead several days worth to show the right day of the week (being careful to turn it to the correct 9 o'clock of the day, for me is was the first for morning.) Then I could go ahead and change the date using the first click postition of the stem.

I see that light bulb going off and you whispering "why, of course!"