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This discussion doesn’t need to mess up the watch thread, which generally contains nice images.

They look cheap and nasty, make your watch stick oot on yer wrist, and always have excess strap folded around looking stoopid.

These are THE FACTS.
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MIC. It's like buying a military spec Land Rover Defender instead of a FFRR.
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Like wearing camo cargo trousers with a suit jacket.
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Not really - your "suit" analogy is a dress watch. People are putting Nato straps on sports watches.

If you put a Nato strap on a Cartier Santos then I guess you'd have a point.
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Rich B wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:16 pm Like wearing camo cargo trousers with a suit jacket.
You mean Shortz?
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GG. wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:18 pm Not really - your "suit" analogy is a dress watch. People are putting Nato straps on sports watches.

If you put a Nato strap on a Cartier Santos then I guess you'd have a point.
so you only wear a Cartier Santos with a suit?
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Rich B wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:22 pm
GG. wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:18 pm Not really - your "suit" analogy is a dress watch. People are putting Nato straps on sports watches.

If you put a Nato strap on a Cartier Santos then I guess you'd have a point.
so you only wear a Cartier Santos with a suit?
Are you arguing you can or can't mix smart and casual now? :lol:
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GG. wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:27 pm
Rich B wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:22 pm
GG. wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:18 pm Not really - your "suit" analogy is a dress watch. People are putting Nato straps on sports watches.

If you put a Nato strap on a Cartier Santos then I guess you'd have a point.
so you only wear a Cartier Santos with a suit?
Are you arguing you can or can't mix smart and casual now? :lol:
i think you were!
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Why do Tudor commission these straps at significant expense if they are as you describe, Mik?


Moving away from Tudor, for obvious reasons they should not be expensive; they're just a bit of woven nylon with some bars sewn in. Simply because something is cheap does not make it nasty or tacky. They have a purpose (securing your watch in the event a spring bar breaks) and in this weather are more appropriate that a leather strap which will get sweaty or a metal bracelet which will get sticky. And if you have some colour in your watch, they are by far the best way to pick up and highlight that.
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How often do spring bars break on these expensive watches? Is it a regular thing?
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I've once had a spring bar pull out when I caught my watch strap on something in the car. It doesn't happen often but it is a risk, and not just a theoretical one.

Ignoring that (because we'd all wear G-shocks if we were just concerned about the risk of damage), NATOs often look good. Sometimes better than any alternative type of strap.
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Jobbo wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:27 pm NATOs often look good. Sometimes better than any alternative type of strap.
To you.
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It's not a motorbike. It's not a matter of opinion.
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It massively is, along with anything else of aesthetic interpretation :lol:

Shall we wrap this one up here?
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Nobody starts a thread in this sub-forum expecting it to end this soon.
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It's still on page 1. we've a long way to go yet.
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I like to finish as quickly as I can.

That didn't come out right.
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I wonder if you could think about NATO straps in order to alleviate that, JL?
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Interesting...........
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I have to be honest, NATO straps were hugely popular.... in primary school.
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