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If you can pull the crown into the hand-setting position and cycle the hour hand twice around the dial with a good date jump, you should be fine. Out of curiosity, what movement is it? There are only a handful of movements being used these days that still use date driver fingers that could cause issues.
The watch is an Invicta Pro Diver with what I think is a Seiko nh35 under the hood
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8lIAAOSwmNZgeHKR/s-l1600.jpg
So the wheel we're talking about is the black one at around 11:00. It's made of plastic on this caliber, so not the most robust thing in the world, but it does have a safety engineered in. See how the arc on that wheel from around 9:00 to 1:00 is attached at 9:00 but not attached at 1:00? That means the finger that pushes the date wheel forward can bend out the way if the user actuates the quickset at the wrong time.
In short, I think you're fine.
Always thought this only applies to either old watches or new complex watches like annual calendars or perpetual and so on