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DimaG
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Nov 27, 2017
Had it been with a leather strap I'd jump right on, but struggling to find a lot of live footage on this one.
DimaGActually, after some time I came to prefer buying watches with bracelets. The leather strap has some defined lifetime, even when properly oiled, used with deployant clasp, avoiding hot weather, etc. - and more importantly, you can get variety of straps from many vendors. Disregarding some exotics (straps with shaped ends and watches with different lug positions for straps and bracelets), it will look just as good or better than the original.
But obtaining an original bracelet for the watch bought with strap is: - expensive (e.g. 200 EUR for 600 EUR watch, you can get a very very pretty leather strap for that money) - difficult (try buying Seiko Alpinist or Hamilton Khaki bracelet)
And if you go aftermarket, you won't get endlinks matched to the watch case, so it will look way worse than aftermarket leather strap, which can easily be indistinguishable to original leather strap.
It seems like less hassle and better investment to just buy the watch with bracelet outright and swap leather straps, NATOs, etc. as preferred...