Watch band suggestions

[DeaconKC]

I just picked up a very nice Seiko Automatic watch that keeps great time. However it has a stainless band that is too small for my wrist. So I am going to get a new band for it. Stainless watch with a white face, very traditional. Should I get another stainless band or go leather? I wear both, so that is not an issue. The watch is somewhere between dressy and casual as shown.

 

[Tomasso]

it has a stainless band that is too small for my wrist.

You could simply add some links to the bracelet.

 

[59Lark]

leather easier on arms.

Having worn pockets watches for twenty five years my children told me to get with the program and bought me a indiglow watch with metal band, found it hot and left marks on my arm. Recently as trying to catch a teenager falling off a bunkbed, 112 pounds flying by , my band was ripped asunder. The result was I cheaped out and took out my box of watches and found a nice 23 jewel bulova self winder that was my great uncle mickey , a retirement gift from his fellow employees at inca enamellers in IND. JUNE 1960 with the original leather band, must go this week and get a new band some stitches are loose, but soo much nicer on the arm. Find metal bands risky, my father once lost his hoverta swiss watch was shovelling pig pens, the stable cleaner took it through the barn and into the manure spreader and out in the field where he found it two weeks later while walking , saw the glint of the crystal. The watch still ran, took it to the jeweler for cleaning and a new band, I still own that watch a 1959 hoverta wore it on nov11, to remember him his birthday 1923. 59Lark.

 

[DeaconKC]

Tomasso, great site! However I only paid $30 for the watch, don't know if I want to dish out $20 for the links! Ouch! But it is definitely a possibility, thanks.

 

[Naphtali]

My Omega Seamaster Professional (SMP) mid-size Omegamatics (black dial) came with Omega's stainless & gold linked band. The total package was heavy and it would not stay firmly in place, traits I dislike intensely. I bought molded rubber deployant bands, similar to what Omega has available for full-sized SMPs. Rather than Omega's hundreds of dollars, I paid about $20 for mine. I bought three, anticipating low cost meant poor quality. Seven years later, wearing the watch constantly except when I shower, deployant band and clasp are intact. The watch is significantly lighter on my wrist and the band's molded shape conforms to my very small wrist, moving not at all. The total effect is simultaneously attractive and invisible.

The vendor of the band is Jason Wade at www.ThorntonWatch.com jason@thorntonwatch.com.

Hope this helps.

 

[MEDIUMMYND]

That watch needs an olive green NATO strap works well with the white dial

 

[Moby]

Deacon, are you sure your Seiko band is adjusted to its largest setting? Seiko's have an adjustment in the clasp to change the size a bit. It's very easy to do.

 

[DeaconKC]

Yup Moby, I actually used to work as a jeweler. I just have a very large wrist.