Watch strap suggestions please
Watch strap suggestions please
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AndyKH

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227 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Hi guys, I have an old seiko divers watch. Blue face and blue and red outer ring. I've already been through 2 original rubber straps and the watch is currently sitting on a horrible bracelet. I'm looking at getting a new strap to liven it up a bit. I've been looking at red straps, black straps with red stitching etc but simply cannot decide what to choose. I'm looking for suggestions please guys!

Justayellowbadge

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273 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Hoofy

80,164 posts

313 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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A colourful Nato? biggrin

AndyKH

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Is the Nato the fabric jobbie? Not my cup of tea at all.

Hoofy

80,164 posts

313 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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ranting

I dunno, eh. Mister Smartypants with his 2 year old Omega coming here thinking he knows all about watch straps and what is his cup of tea and isn't.














wink

AndyKH

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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You swine you!

On a rather random note, ive just won an ebay auction for 8 spare/repair watches. 6 of the watches look like crap but 2 caught my eye. they appear to say rolex on the face. I know ive probably just bought a couple of fakes but thought it was worth a punt for what I paid. £8.50. Will post pics when I receive them .

Hoofy

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Cool! You really have it bad. biggrin

Link to auction page?

AndyKH

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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I do have it bad, really bad. I'm fully expecting them to be fake, especially the square one but the blue faced one looks like a Rolex day/date jobbie. The woman came accross as an old woman on the email exchanges.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360429347849?ssPageName=...

The blue faced one looks like this to me.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MENS-ROLEX-18K-GOLD-DAY-...

Edited by AndyKH on Thursday 2nd February 18:41

Hoofy

80,164 posts

313 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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I suppose you can use the bracelets on other watches.

AndyKH

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Very True, I'll probably just re-list them if they turn out to be dodgy. Fingers crossed though.

Hoofy

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313 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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I reckon you could get £2-3 for the leather straps and £4-6 for the bracelets.

TAS1981

498 posts

236 months

Friday 3rd February 2012
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Yeah little old lady with 1689 recommendations on her eBay account! wink

Good luck though! wink

Makila2A

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204 months

Friday 3rd February 2012
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Have a look at www.BasAndLokes.com
No personal association

AndyKH

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Friday 3rd February 2012
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Ha ha TAS1981, she may be an old steptoe type.

AndyKH

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Wednesday 15th February 2012
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Well the watches came, believe me they are comically bad. They are so bad i don't even regret buying them as they made me smile. Ho hum.

On a plus note i managed to source 2 genuine Seiko bracelets for my watch, one brand new with tags and the other used but perfect for £13.50. New strap is on the watch and it's transformed it, so so pleased.