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Rolexs are easy as you take the bracelet off and install a strap. Some brands do not provide a way to easily remove the bracelet (your timepiece back has to be removed / goes into service to have a watchmaker remove the bracelet).
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![]() I cannot make my mind up about this... it feels wrong but... kinda looks cool at the same time |
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![]() I put my GMT on a leather strap once... was bloody awful... ![]() Slightly more acceptable on an rubber oysterflex style, but still, not my thing. Quickly reverted back to bracelet. |
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I’ve lived everywhere from major metropolitan US cities, to developing countries in the Horn of Africa. Non-shiny straps (nato, leather) definitely make the watch look less obvious. But if someone is mugging you, they’d take anything off your wrist regardless of strap.
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They're great on bracelet and straps. I think the older models generally look better on leather, while the newer ones with the ceramic bezels better with rubber. |
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Concur. Some of the photos, it's all personal preference of course, but some of them are horrendous. The rubber is marginally OK, but that leather, whew, good for you. Some of the examples, it's not the material, just the clashing of colors taking away from the watch itself. Then again, there are a few good examples which highlight the case, dial, the timepiece as a whole. |
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I have a 36mm smooth bezel, blue motif dial Datejust on jubilee. It drew a bit of attention until I put on a brown curved end leather strap. I did visit my AD with it on the leather strap and my client advisor did a double take because they didn't believe at first that it was Datejust.
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I've been toying with this idea for a while and some of these photos are the kick in the pants I may just need to give it a shot.
The Explorer on Black Rubber looks really good!!
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Yeah, I would say most of the pictures of the straps on the previous pages are not great. Since the case is unfinished. You have to buy sub par quality endlinks that really don't look good, don't really fit properly and make fitting a strap very hard since the endlink takes up so much room. Or you have to buy a terrible looking stap with the "curved end integration" that to me looks janky. I don't know - I think a strap should have a square end. Notice how all the pictures of watches with square end straps are from above to hide the unfinished case. I have a box full of very nice leather and exotic skin 20mm straps I purchased for my Speedmaster that I just can't use on my Daytona. I tried this combo - but after a couple of days this bothered me so much I just switched back to the bracelet. Putting a square ended strap on my Daytona without something covering up the unfinished case is just not an option. Come on admit it - if the case was finished like a speedmaster - everyone would be saying what a "strap monster" the Daytona is. Everyone would be running all kinds of straps on the watch. |
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I think a bit of age/ patina is helpful when putting it on a nato - preferably an aluminium bezel as well with a bit of fade. I guess that’s why the rubber straps look better to me on shinier watches whether it’s ceramic or gold. And yeah - leather is a hard one to make work on a sports watch. Unless it’s a faded brown leather strap on an ancient GMT or similar. |
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Love me some blue. Although the blue stands out, to me, it stands out less than the TT PCL bracelet. And I think it looks great to boot.
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