Noah
Student, from the southeast. Love anything Seiko, Seiko mods, Casio, Tissot, and Islander watch. Working every day toward my grail of a white-dial 36mm Datejust on a jubilee bracelet!
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I’ve replaced 95% of my collection with bracelets to leather or nato or rubber.
Reasons:
Skinny wrists (bracelets are heavy)
Hairy wrists (bracelets get stuck and itch)
Aesthetically, changing straps can be very stylish and an fun adventure.occasionally my straps cost more than the watch.
Braclets get scratched and scuffed and weighs a lot.
The Gerald Genta design watches though ,I keep those bracelets because they always to me are ducking stunning.
I prefer my watches all bracelet ! Just my personal preference I prefer the weight etc.
The answer to that question is... yes
I love a good rubber strap and need to buy more. Super comfortable plus I really like the look. I enjoy a nato. I've got a winderful, oh shoot what's it called, the parashoot stuff. My only real dress watch is great on leather. I also quite like the bracelet.
It switches, swaps, changes by mood.
I prefer my watches all bracelet ! Just my personal preference I prefer the weight etc.
I completely agree.
I flip flip. I would always buy a watch on the bracelet because I really like a bracelet. But! I also like to switch it out and get a leather strap on there.
Best example is my Longines Master Collection. I got it with the bracelet (which I really like), but once I found this yellow padded leather strap, I just found it worked so much better and made it slightly less sports orientated that I found matched the dial aesthetics - blued steel hands and no lume doesn't scream sports, right.
I keep wanting to give a rugged style leather option a solid try, but I'm a bit worried about how quickly they'll wear out for the price. I tend to stick to rubber and nato style straps.
Veggie since 1982, so anything but leather.
Current favourites are Sailcloth, Bonklip , Staib and CWC elastic NATO's.
Canvas is my favorite strap material, followed by rubber/silicon.