(show your) custom watch straps?

Tjarco

Welp, just pulled the trigger and ordered a vertical titanium! Because I choose to be different, I also ordered a custom strap to replace the Suunto strap.

Now I’m really curious to see what custom straps you are wearing on your Verticals (i’ll be posting mine as soon as the mailman gets here)

In the meantime… does anyone know the spring bar hole diameter or the “spring bar tip width” to get the right Spring Bars?

Umer Javed

@Tjarco For the 22 mm Suunto strap the spring bar tips are nominally 1mm dia.

It’s the same strap used by the 9PP and SV

MiniForklift

I have 6 or 7 haha, most of them are leather as I’m partial to a good rally strap. I bought a couple of silicon straps although oddly for training/running I prefer wearing a leather strap

I just buy online. As long as the strap is 22mm I’ve never had any issues, all of mine are quick release (so no spring bars). Makes changing straps so much easier and quicker

Tjarco

@MiniForklift said in (show your) custom watch straps?:

I have 6 or 7

Could you share some pictures?

I can imagine leather could be comfortable when you have that high of a rotation of different bands and being able to let them dry properly. Personally love the leather aesthetic just don’t like them when they are wet / need to take them off before showering.

MiniForklift

@Tjarco said in (show your) custom watch straps?:

Could you share some pictures?

These are probably the couple that I alternate between the most, the others are just leather rally straps (brown, tan and grey ones from memory)

Tjarco

@MiniForklift

They both look really good, but didn’t expect that the antique brown would work so well with this watch, very nice!

hardcoresinceeightyfour

@MiniForklift are you able to share the spring bar that you used? Im having a hard time finding one with a 1mm tip. Cheers!

Inge Nallsson

@hardcoresinceeightyfour For my plastic Race S it was imperative to find a big enough tip. Normal 0.9 mm could slowly grind the holes oval and perhaps even break the ‘horns’ eventually.

The only one I could find with a documented 1.1 mm tip (which fits perfectly) on Swedish Amazon was the below pictured from the French company Timed x Masar FR. The SKU was XFP200M22 (the 22 mm version) and it has a middle section bar of 2.0 mm which is perfect for Garmin style QuickFit bands and also isn’t too thick for pressing in an ‘UltraFit’ style nylon strap.

In the picture furthest down you see it called “Xfp”. I also ordered a “Xds” model claiming to have a 1.1 mm tip, but what arrived was something entirely different (visually) and the tip measured 0.8 mm. The “Xfp” was the stated 1.1 mm. Expensive adventure over all, but cheap enough to easy my mind about the possible breaking issue through tip drilling of plastic.

Edit: Adding link, for what it’s worth… https://www.amazon.se/dp/B0CCN2N1MJ/ref=pe_24982401_506182521_TE_item

PS. The ‘flange’, ‘lip’ or whatever it’s called is easy to press downwards even with a fingernail, so no tools necessary:

A Former User

Garmin’s nylon straps are their best product.

pilleus

Bracelet exchange due to better heart rate measurement on both watches 🟠

Highlands

@Ghost Agreed. I use exactly the same strap both on my SV and SR

Jer075

In my side I bought so much strap for my Suunto vertical !!!

The best today for me :

1/ Suunto recycled strap in black (9g perfect for the day to day and to wear at work) - not recommanded for swimmer;
2/ Suunto strap for suunto ocean: great a little bulky / perfect for swim and strong sea activities ( i will wear it during surf session);
3/ Coros nylon band in black : perfect / light but need to have little time to swap with another strap (because you have to change pin);
4/ Coros pace 3 plastic band (original black): easy to change / very light / not perfectly adjusted (Larger strap Little small vs the watch).

See my current favorite strap :

Stefan Kersting

Pimped my watch

lorenzo_papalia

@Inge-Nallsson Are you sure about the 1.1mm size of the spring bars? I’ve measure the original strap’s bars and my digital caliper (not sure abount its precision) gave me 1.0mm. Do you choose 1.1mm bars intentionally thicker?

Luis Andés Olmedo

@Stefan-Kersting where did you get that!? I do need one

GiPFELKiND

@Stefan-Kersting whats this?

BrunoH

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo Me too. I ordered mine from Temu. It was so cheap that I ordered two, one for each of my favorite straps.

EDIT: I took a look at Temu and to my surprise all of the 22mm tags have disappeared. There are only two vendors left and they provide 20mm wide tags. There are still many tag vendors in Etsy, but the prices are five times higher compared to what I paid in Temu.