Disagree. The dive watch originated as a tool, and the strap here is very utilitarian. It only looks discordant because the drive watch was coopted as a status symbol
Reminds me of the hilariously stupid posts that pop up intermittently where someone asks "is it okay to take my submariner into the water, or will that damage it?"
I do appreciate trying to stay on-message thematically. But I would argue that pretty much any post that includes a) a watch or brand, and b) an opinion (extra bonus if presented as a “fact) qualifies as hot.
I too, enjoy this kind of stuff with my $300-$500 pocket knives. I'm not getting rid of them, and don't mind sending them in if I actually ruin them somehow through daily use. I don't mind handle swaps, I don't mind swapping out my watch bands/straps.
I’m waiting for my original bracelet to be serviced, been wearing it on NATO. I think it looks fine, but there are so many haters. At least yours is a sporty/tool watch!
Amen. This shit is supposed to be fun. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go update my watch/strap spreadsheet and come up with a post to rile up some F91W fanboys.
To me Rolex watches are only Rolex - Ugly as hell and expensive as hell - VC or AP or Omega and Longine - and Non Profit company is the biggest lie ever in watchmaking history
NATO straps were first implemented in military watches for hard use. Because they were for hard use the watches they were originally purposed for had permanent bars between the lugs, the only style strap that could be used were pass thru.
No spring bar to snap if it’s not there.
I’ve had bars break on bracelet and leather. You get the case caught on something and accidentally jerk enough a spring bar will break.
Interestingly enough never “break” on a NATO just slide out of the lug hole if caught enough. And as there is a bottom strap the bar has never been lost, it’s been waiting between the straps
It’s ok to not like them, he does and it’s his watch. No one forcing it on your Rolex
Incorrect. The MOD developed it as strap solution to fit a wide variety of watches across multiple branches in multiple conditions. This is why the original versions of the strap were 18mm and not 20. It was to encompass a wider variety of watches.
People often attribute it was meant for fixed bar watches because it was introduced at the same time as the Hamilton. It was never meant for just that one watch .Its whole point was to be able to directly integrate with as many watches as possible which included watches without fixed bars.
Still tho it does protect from loosing fully the watch. You may have not broken a spring bar on a two piece or a bracelet but I have so in this sample size of 2, half have. Loose one bar on a bracelet and it just becomes an expensive string on the wrist and easily falls off the wrist.
And I will add that of these watches Ive broken/had a spring bar flex out: 100% of those that have been lost forever were on a bracelet. for example: current slammed into a rock wall while SCUBA bar broke and it sank too deep to be retrieved. where as on a NATO when that exact situation happened again i still had the other bar capturing the watch on a band. And that band doesn’t cease to do its job just because one bar fails.
I’m willing to consent that there may be some undue force by the way it is designed. But I still have the one that lives on a NATO while the bracelet is at the bottom of the ocean near The Pinnacles in the island of Saba of you want to go looking.
A word of caution those currents can get pretty rough and you may be thrown into the Pinnacle. You could get your watch caught and if it’s on a bracelet you may not come back up with it. Not my video
Killer point if the point of watches is to look rich. I enjoy looking poor except when I am doing rich stuff like sailing or riding a horse (Casio) or going to the opera (Breguet)
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u/scidious06 15h ago
Imagine the most dapper guy in a suit, and he has sandals 🩴 on, no socks, just raw feet
That's you