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The Great "Third Party Band/Strap" Thread

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Anybody know where to find a 3rd party band similar to apples black leather loop?
I really like the magnetic aspect of it & the style but not for the 150$ Apple is charging.
Would love to find something similar.
 
dotnet said:
It's not just you, apart from one or two most of bands shown here ruin the looks of the watch, IMHO. But there is no debating taste, of course.
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I wish you guys would say which bands you don't like (or do like). Was mine one of the "ruin the looks of the watch" bands in you opinion?

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Therealbigmofo said:
Mine too had a bad complete??
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I really like the orange/black combo, looks great. Is that a Spigen protector on that ? I hope so, looks cool, and I ordered one for my SG Sport (which I haven't received yet).

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Therealbigmofo said:
What about this one??
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Love this one as well. Love leather bands with white stitching.

And Schmidt65, your set up looks amazing, where did you get that strap, beautiful.

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John6Plus said:
I got my 38mm Kollea/USAMS "leather" strap from Amazon yesterday evening, and I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised. We'll see how the durability holds but the metal adapters are perfect fits and nice and shiny, and the holes on the strap are closely spaced so the size adjustments are very good for a classic buckle design.

I only tried on Apple's classic buckle once at a try on, but my memory of it is that it was pretty stiff, and this one is too. Hopefully it will break in a bit, but even if not it feels good. The straps do ever so slightly stick when pivoting, but not enough to annoy me.

My biggest concern was that I have a space gray sport, so I wasn't sure how the different metal would look. Short answer: I think it's fine. The fact that the adapter clicks in low on the watch body helps, so it doesn't stick out, and in fact is different enough that it gives a nice two-tone affect (I may not have been as happy if it was up against the silver aluminum, for example).

Anyway, here are some pics.
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Looks great, very classic look.
 
I also ordered the 38mm Kollea/USAMS black band from Amazon but I wasn't really satisfied with the "leather" so I swapped bands from my old watch.
 

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Time Less said:
I also ordered the 38mm Kollea/USAMS black band from Amazon but I wasn't really satisfied with the "leather" so I swapped bands from my old watch.
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Looks like everyone is having the same issue with that USAMS adapter not quite fitting properly. It was enough to bother me. Anytime it'd click a bit out of place I thought I was getting a notification. The hunt for a properly sized adapter continues!
 
Monowear Red Leather Band for 38mm SS

I just got this today. I think it looks great and I am very happy with it.
 

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monty77 said:
I like Isofrane bands but for a keyboard user the Breitling tang buckle on the rubber does this great thing where the band can sit to protect the buckle from scratching itself and anything it comes into contact with. Pricewise there's not that much in it either.

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Yeah... Infact I have to use my sweater to protect the palm rest of my mac from the watch... I think I will buy leather loop when I get the watch or something like that...
Besides of that the rubber band looks gorgeous on your watch... I really like the combo: it reminds me of citizen aqualand
 
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