214270 Spring Bars

[Achilles Last Stand]

Hi everyone,
Long time listener, first time caller....
I've seen variations of this questions asked on here and answered with varying degrees of specificity and mixed levels of certainty so I thought I'd ask this specific question:

I'm looking for curved spring bars for my 214270 explorer so I can wear it on a nato or leather sometimes.

1. What spring bars are you using?

2. What size tips (aka pivots?) should be used with this watch?

Thank you all very much.

[disco stu]

The native spring bars on the 214270 are sufficient for either a strap or nato. It’s the 124270 where problems could arise.

[Steph-paul]

I sometimes wore my Explorer 214270 on leather straps, and the original spring bars works fine.

[matthew P]

Looking back on the photo library I now remember damaging the black strap with the stock bars due to the lack of room.

I ordered some bent spring bars from Toxic NATO ( now UTE straps) / Terry….. that did the job and all the other thick leather straps from my speedmaster worked without getting chewed up.
I imagine any bent spring bars will do ( 20mm )…… I only bought from toxic nato because I needed a new nato and was able to add on the bars with the free shipping.

The 214270 looked great on the Watch Steward as well.

Also try Esslinger?….. I heard they sell bent spring bars








..Explorer & Spring Diver - I’m just here for the photos..

[-dustin]

Toxic/ UTE was the best source for spring bars. Miss that place.

Toxic himself posted this - https://www.rolexforums.com/showpost...90&postcount=5

Otto Frei has anything and everything you might need.

https://www.ofrei.com/page475.html

There's also a store on ebay called OutletGoods (https://www.ebay.com/str/outletgoods...ore_cat=170151) and they have some hard to find spring bars. Nice quality, too, from what I've seen. Ordered 5 or 6 times from them.

[Yellowfury]

are the rolex springbars thicker than normal? I've put my exp 40 on an MN strap and there is 0 wiggle room to adjust the strap once it is installed vs other watches where i usually can fiddle with my fabric strap placement.

[matthew P]

Originally Posted by Yellowfury

are the rolex springbars thicker than normal? I've put my exp 40 on an MN strap and there is 0 wiggle room to adjust the strap once it is installed vs other watches where i usually can fiddle with my fabric strap placement.

I don’t think they are thicker ….. it’s more that they are very close to the watch head, to get a better fit with less wiggle…… optimized for the bracelet.


..Explorer & Spring Diver - I’m just here for the photos..

[Achilles Last Stand]

Thanks for all the replies.
Can someone confirm that 214270 springbars have tips that are 1.2mm?
Assuming so, anyone every try bending spring bars?
MatthewP: I love your pics.