Omega Planet Ocean strap help

[duncs04]

Hi guys,

I recently bought a 42mm Planet Ocean with the stainless steel bracelet.



Now I'd like to take the stainless off and put a black rubber strap on.

So I went down to my local omega stockist and was given the following prices:
Rubber strap £189
Clasp £160
Total £349

For me this is quite allot of cash for what is a rubber strap, so I would like to know if anyone could recommend a place I could buy a good quality watch strap instead of the omega ones?

Also what kinds of bracelets and straps do people have on their PO's?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Tom

[audidoody]

http://www.watchobsession.co.uk/collections/rubber...

Plenty here. As rubber trees don't produce a special sap for Omega I'd say any quality rubber strap would suffice. The only person who will know it's not original is you.

Edited by audidoody on Sunday 13th April 18:06

[The GMan]

I only paid £129 each for the straps I bought from an AD. Mine is a 45.5mm and the previous model, but I bought the last strap this time last year so I wouldn't have thought they would have gone up that much.

Fortunately I already had the clasp, as I bought mine on a croc leather. I'm sure when I was buying you could get a strap on a standard buckle though?


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[duncs04]

The GMan said:

I only paid £129 each for the straps I bought from an AD. Mine is a 45.5mm and the previous model, but I bought the last strap this time last year so I wouldn't have thought they would have gone up that much.

Fortunately I already had the clasp, as I bought mine on a croc leather. I'm sure when I was buying you could get a strap on a standard buckle though?

This was the omega dealer in manchester, it's the only one in the city centre.

Thanks for the help, I'll have a look at the website.

[duncs04]

The GMan said:

I only paid £129 each for the straps I bought from an AD. Mine is a 45.5mm and the previous model, but I bought the last strap this time last year so I wouldn't have thought they would have gone up that much.

Fortunately I already had the clasp, as I bought mine on a croc leather. I'm sure when I was buying you could get a strap on a standard buckle though?

This was the omega dealer in manchester, it's the only one in the city centre.

Thanks for the help, I'll have a look at the website.

[duncs04]

The GMan said:

I only paid £129 each for the straps I bought from an AD. Mine is a 45.5mm and the previous model, but I bought the last strap this time last year so I wouldn't have thought they would have gone up that much.

Fortunately I already had the clasp, as I bought mine on a croc leather. I'm sure when I was buying you could get a strap on a standard buckle though?

This was the omega dealer in manchester, it's the only one in the city centre.

Thanks for the help, I'll have a look at the website.

[endo]

duncs04 said:

Rubber strap £189
Clasp £160
Total £349

Wow, thats a price increase and a half! must be really special rubber they're using now. I paid £85 for a whole strap back in 2008.