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Halios Seaforth on a noomoon strap
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Cloaca
1906
Aug 9, 2018
Strap just arrived, white 22 mm Noomoon. Initial impressions:
- My first quick-release spring bar strap. Very handy. I was kind of a snob about the quick release idea, but these could grow on me.
- The strap is very nice looking and will be a perfect summer sweat-resistant strap. I put the white strap on an all black Aragon diver, and the contrast looks great.
- It is more fiddly to "buckle" than I had anticipated. I think a sort of "roll down" sealing is the best approach to getting all the knobs in the holes. But it really isn't a fidget strap as some have implied, since once you unzip it, it takes a little time to get back together, and you're not going to really want to be repeating that throughout the day.
Some industrial design notes:
- The two sides are perfectly flat and the knobs and holes are spaced with the assumption that the distance between the centers of each hole is the same as the distance between the centers of each knob. When worn however, the strap is curved with a radius of curvature of about an inch to four or six inches, depending on the part of the wrist. When you have two flat things of the same dimension and you stack them and curve them, their thickness makes them offset, such as when you fan a ream of copy paper. They should have made the holes very, very slightly more offset from each other compared to the pegs. When you try to put on the strap and you attached the pegs and holes at one end, very quickly they are not aligned further down the strap because of the curvature of your wrist. As a side effect of this, the thick part of the attached strap that is composed of two layers "wants" to lie flat, so you have a section of the strap that is not really following your wrist like it could if the pegs and holes were correctly distanced for the radius of curvature of the bottom of the typical wrist, maybe 4 to 6 inches for that part of a wrist.
- All of the pegs fit the holes very tightly, which makes putting on the strap fiddly. I think that to secure the strap it would be sufficient if the final six or ten rows of pegs from the tip of the strap are super tight. The pegs before that could be microscopically smaller or slightly pyramidal in shape to snap in easily to the holes, with the last several rows only requiring that they be solidly snapped in.
Cloaca
1906
Aug 9, 2018
I should be getting delivery of that exact strap today. "Allocated to delivery staff" says tracking.
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