In your native climate, bracelet or strap?
I live in tropical Singapore, which typically hovers around a pretty "wet" 80% humidity.
By "normal" convention, humid - and thus sweatier - conditions usually mean leather straps are avoided; with bracelets or rubber straps embraced.
However, I like my leather straps and try to use rally/perforated leather to work around sweaty situations.
Where do you live, and which bracelet/strap choice do you lean towards for daily-use (not specialised cases) watch wearing?
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Rubber or bracelet usually, can get away with leather in late fall or winter.
UK climate allows for anything, so I tend to use leather and bracelets. I have a couple on rubber and NATOs but I usually swap them out.
Midwest. Bracelet, rubber or nato.
Doesn’t really matter if I go to and from office as it’s all air conditioned. Weekends will be bracelets or rubber straps.
I’m usually drawn to bracelets. But wear exotic leather or rubber in the winter months. A deployant clasp is also a must lately
UK climate allows for anything, so I tend to use leather and bracelets. I have a couple on rubber and NATOs but I usually swap them out.
Indeed, I used to live in London and the relatively drier climate allows for almost any time of strap and comes down to personal style/preference. If only Singapore could have 50% humidity, I'd gladly wear plain old leather straps all day.
Middle Europe. There is a name for our climate but I didnt pay attention in geography class and cant be bothered to look it up now but winter is very cold, summer is very warm, autumn and spring are right in the middle. Therefore I dont have to exclude anything due to climate.
Middle Europe. There is a name for our climate but I didnt pay attention in geography class and cant be bothered to look it up now but winter is very cold, summer is very warm, autumn and spring are right in the middle. Therefore I dont have to exclude anything due to climate.
I believe the working man's term is "a good place to be, if you can afford to travel in winter and summer" 😜
I believe the working man's term is "a good place to be, if you can afford to travel in winter and summer" 😜
Yea I checked my old study books, its something like that.
UK so all the weather in one day, so for me it's NATO mostly and occasionally the bracelet.
Largely, in Sydney, it doesn't matter. You can get away with anything, climate wise.
It's more about what you might be doing, activity wise, that decides for you, eg: beach.
Bracelet 75% of the year but, during the summer months, when the bracelet feels heavy and sweaty, I swap for rubber and occasionally NATOs.
Southern Spain. So scorchio and humid in the summer months. I wear leather, rubber, NATO and ocassionally a bracelet throughout the year. But I wear them loose. Especially in summer.
I live in a cold desert (Western Canada) where sadly nobody will see anything I wear against my skin for 6+ months of the year. In winter conditions I prefer a bracelet because I want something that will resist being rubbed and scraped underneath a coarse wool sleeve all day.
Southern Spain. So scorchio and humid in the summer months. I wear leather, rubber, NATO and ocassionally a bracelet throughout the year. But I wear them loose. Especially in summer.
I went to Spain last year in June. Lord almighty, was it hot. Forest fires too. Wore a watch with a bracelet!
The climate here can vary in extremes from over 38° C and humid in summer, to -25° C and dry in winter. So there's no single solution. I go with metal bracelets most often, leather more often in the cooler months.
In Canada. My love for leather straps keep them on most of the year, other than summer. Then I switch to NATO or rubber. Bracelet is reserved for the times I dip into the water. I like my watches fairly light on the wrist.
The climate here can vary in extremes from over 38° C and humid in summer, to -25° C and dry in winter. So there's no single solution. I go with metal bracelets most often, leather more often in the cooler months.
whoa, where are you at?
Low humidity here — sometimes as low as 9%. Anything goes. The West is the best!
I live in the Philippines. Humid weather + my sweaty wrists is not a good combination against leather straps. I prefer bracelets on all my watches then rubber strap as a second option
whoa, where are you at?
Central USA.
Rubber and bracelet during the summer. The other seasons I’ll wear bracelet, leather and rubber.
Hello fellow Sgporean! Most of my collection is on the bracelet, but with an abundance of airconditioned areas, i feel that you cant go wrong with either a strap or bracelet 👍
Florida. So bracelet mostly. NATO strap when it’s 100 degrees out and I don’t care if it looks a bit more slobby. Leather decomposes in <3 days here. Just ask CSI Miami…
Low humidity here — sometimes as low as 9%. Anything goes. The West is the best!
Now you're just showing off! 😠!
Hello neighbour , I’m Malaysian
I live in the middle of Japan, so there are about 3 months of really dry weather between December and February followed by four to five months of humidity from late May through September and sometimes into October (although really there are three terrible months of humidity between June and the end of August). I prefer leather but the part I got from my northern European heritage means I sweat right through leather straps in summer. I take the leather straps off in summer and I put on some bracelets. However I often find the bracelets get uncomfortably moist under the links, so my preferred choice is a NATO, perlon or a tapering rubber strap.
I live in the UK. We don’t have climate, we have weather.
Anything works.
Japan. Humid in summer so bracelet or resin strap is my choice. I think spring and autmn is warm and winter is the only season comfortable to wear leather strap.
Prefer straps to bracelets if possible, all the time. I'm a sucker for contrast so straps are my thing vs the rather monotone combination with bracelets. I like the look of sailcloth but prefer silicone/rubber for more active situations.