The damn buckle!
I hate buckles on straps, they are bad for the leather and so dangerous that you might drop the watch when you take it off the wrist. Before even the 1st wear I swap the buckles out to a clasp, I have done this for the last 20 years, religiously. I was about to do that on one of my recent watches and I thought I should try it on with the buckle just to see what the difference is. I did.. and I took it off .. and my worst fears came true. The watch dropped from my hands as I was undoing the buckle. That feeling of something just died ..oh! shit. Watch fell from countertop height to the marble floors below. Luckily no cracked crystal, and no dings or scratches. The movement seems to be ticking, its a manual wind 9S64. DAMN BUCKLE! Never again.
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I have been replacing my buckles with deployment claps. Recently using https://www.hirschstraps.com/products/hirsch-pusher-clasp-silver
This has never happened to me, and I have been using buckles even before the quartz crisis was a thing. And I'm Mr Clumsy. So I am wondering whether this was, at a subconscious level, a deliberate mishap to confirm your bias. Of course, I'm used to buckles, and you are not, so that affects the probability of an accident.
I own a few watches that came with clasps, but it's more about looks than anything.
And as for buckles damaging straps... I understand the theory behind this, but is it reality? I am really unsure about this but... I did not experience this either, with the possible exception of canvas straps. Yes, the pin of the buckle going through the same hole will widen this over time, but this is mostly due to actually wearing the watch on that hole, and your clasped strap does this too, it is merely hidden from sight.
I've never bothered with deployant clasps. They seem uncomfortable.
Anyway, pocket watches teach one that watches are best handed over a mattress or other softly upholstered furniture.
I kinda agree But for different reasons. I am not a fan of the excess flopping about as a result of poorly fitting / loose keepers - so I convert all my buckle straps to deployant clasps hide the strap. I prefer the unbranded omega style clasps.
I wouldn't take a nice watch off over a marble floor. If you are manipulating a watch have enough respect for it to do it carefully. No offense.
A buckle is easy to quickly adjust and never bites into your skin like a deployant often can. Have 'buckled up' all my life and never dropped a single watch yet, nor lost a strap becuase the buckle 'ruined' it...So I don't get it.
I prefer standard buckles to deployants tbh. Never had any trouble with buckles in three decades of watch wearing, so deployants just feel like a needlessly bulky solution to a non-problem. And the ones that have the strap the wrong way round just look wrong.