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The Great "Third Party Band/Strap" Thread
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Freedomoclock09 eBay member. I really like them. Much tighter fit than the apple Style.
Also do you think this band would fit a small women's wrist? My favorite color is orange but the description specifically states "men's." Do you happen to have the measurements? Thanks.
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My new red leather band. It has a touch more orange than I would prefer, but since "everyone should have an orange band" maybe I'm covered.
Seems good quality leather. Little stiff right not. Not unusual. Good adapters fit well and are a good color match. Comes with a screw driver if you want to use the adapters with another band. Only minor disappointment is I thought the buckle was black. But considering I ordered and received in 3-4 days. No real complaints.
The band w/adapters is from Makergrafix. Included free engraving.
Here it is next to my silicon MK band which is my everyday band most days.
Seems good quality leather. Little stiff right not. Not unusual. Good adapters fit well and are a good color match. Comes with a screw driver if you want to use the adapters with another band. Only minor disappointment is I thought the buckle was black. But considering I ordered and received in 3-4 days. No real complaints.
The band w/adapters is from Makergrafix. Included free engraving.
Here it is next to my silicon MK band which is my everyday band most days.
It would be nice to get the AW for 350: the AW sport 42mm is about $510 in Europe.
Is the Skagen band comfortable and does it feel like a quality Milanese Band? I'd like a mesh band but will not trust the no name Chinese imports. My risk assessment won't allow it. I can get a genuine Skagen band from a website in the NL called mastersintime.com for $39 and am thinking of going that way, assuming that the Skagen brand band will be more trustworthy. Thoughts?
My wrist is 177mm and this is a 42mm watch. I use the 2nd to smallest hole. With the 38mm watch and using the smallest hole, it might fit a 167mm wrist (band plus watch length will be 6mm smaller when using the small hole and 4mm smaller on the 38mm watch). I'm also using different lugs that I think might make this band a tad smaller than if it were on the regular apple style lugs
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I've owned 5 Skagen watches in the past 10 years, in my own opinion, they are the best bang for the bucks when it comes to watches. Probably because i have a very small wrist so i love their designs, very minimal and they have been doing the Milanese for many years on their watches. Very comfy. So i keep on purchasing their watches every time i get a chance.
I highly recommend to go that route if you want to. Just make sure you can get an adapter for it as I need to pray open the opening a bit to fit the current adapter available. They have slightly bigger bar than standard spring loaded pins (which the skagen bands designed to fit)
Finally I think I got my band collections complete so far, will be posting the bands I bought. Different ones for each day lol! I mostly bought third party bands that are not advertised as for Apple Watch and so adapters are not included but they are cheaper and bought them on ebay.
First one is my favorite and it's a two tone stainless steel band I bought in ebay. Surprised to see the Omega brand when it came in, not sure if it's real but don't care, I didn't buy for the brand but for the looks.
First one is my favorite and it's a two tone stainless steel band I bought in ebay. Surprised to see the Omega brand when it came in, not sure if it's real but don't care, I didn't buy for the brand but for the looks.
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And finally a Hoco leather band bought in ebay. This one came with the adapter, it may not be the adapter I like but it'll do.
You are awesome! It just might fit...if not, hubby can have it for his. Thank you!
I Plan using it with an adapter that uses standard pins so it should fit. Thanks for your opinion. I think I'll give it a shot.
I had the same question and on the their site I could not find any answers on size.
BUT when I googled it I found they have the bands listed on eBay and there they list the sizing as such
Small will fit a wrist about 6 to 6.5 in.
Medium will fit a wrist about 6.75 to 7.5 in.
Large will fit a wrist about 7.75 to 8.25 in.
FYI ~ I emailed him and asked what size to get for the Apple watch and he told me the 42mm watch take the 24mm bands. While that might be common knowledge it was something I did not know.
Excellent well spotted on the sizes! I would have taken a chance with medium, but seems i am a large. Also yes 42mm watch needs a 24mm band so there is no room to wiggle, and 38mm watch uses 22mm.
Thanks for the info! I don't know if i will still get the band as i have an orange leather already and i just literally won a steel link bracelet on ebay for $410 still sealed. Huge purchase on a strap so need to stop for a while. lol
There are, just that they are from china biggest "ebay" like store and I don't think they will be bother to come to the west yet.
Here are some of the clones/copy...and more on the way...
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my apple watch 42mm with the handmade special patina crocodile strap, one of the best strap for me ^_^
my apple watch 42mm with the handmade special patina crocodile strap, one of the best strap for me ^_^
I absolutely love that band and look. Where did you get it?
This is by far the best looking SS link bracelet I have for the 42mm SG minus the adapter. Link bracelet is from Fossil, please don't ask where the adapter is from :
Great band. Been looking for a MK link band for my SG, but most have the stepped end that would t work on AW. But since MK is made by Fossil, I've started looking at theirs as well.