do not hesitate to choose this watch is a beautiful watch, even more beautiful reality on the ad. this is true, the problem is no doc in French !!!. but to set the watch to the following, example; if today we are on Thursday, 21. pull the adjustment knob on the 1st notch and turn right to set the date and then turn left to bring the day to Wednesday 20. then pull the knob to the second screen to switch to Time setting by turning the needle until that day and date will appear on 21 in the window (so past midnight) continue until the time admit 18h 42. Fully push the adjustment knob. here is what's over the watch is set to update the date and time. by following this procedure the setting of the watch is very easy.