Watch straps: Buckle or Deployant Clasp?

[u812]

I really like nice leather straps. Would wear the Nighthawk more with one. I can't wear them,allergic to the dye in most leather straps. So much so that I get deep wounds in my wrist and an intense itch that feels like it goes to the bone.

 

[HwangJino]

I only own one watch, but is leather band with buckle, not too into the clasps.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

I hear you, I don't collect watches, so I usually wear just the one, I have an old Victorinox I might put up forsale later on as I had a sapphire crystal put into that but I just don't wear it.

BUT, have you ever had a leather band with a clasp? I was hesitant to do so but it closes up neatly and doesn't feel funky, at least to me, so far, so good
G2

 

[bdmicarta]

There was rumours that watches will be a thing of the past with the onset of cell phones

What do you call someone that doesn't wear a watch? You call them LATE.

This one is called a deployment, as they also have deployant, it seems to be a little confusing as to why they call one one way and one another way

It's easy to understand- a deployant clasp is what you put on a leather strap on a dress watch. a deployment strap is what you put on your watch when you are about to be shipped out in the military.

I doubt that there are special clasps that have reduced size buckles??

Straps and clasps come in a variety of sizes. It is pretty common for a strap to taper a bit from the lug end to the clasp end.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Hehe, nice thanks, it all makes sense
G2

 

[Gary W. Graley]

I see we're still gathering votes

Here's a few shots taken tonight showing some lumen, first few are with the dial hit by my flashlight and then snapping the photo with the lights in the room still on, you can see that the orange goes away and green is glowing through, and then a dark shot showing the lumen, once I hit that with my flashlight before bed around 11pm, and when I've woken up around 2:30am you can still see the hands clearly and the indexes fainter but still showing.

a little after hitting it with the flashlight you can see the ambient lumen has dropped off;

and full lumen in the dark, puts out some light!

Nice watch, certainly glad to have picked it up, almost makes up for my Sinn 656 almost....

G2

 

[Tdhurl1103]

I use both the deployment clasp and the standard buckle. I like both methods. However, the two serve completely different roles in my life. For my work, I use a watch with the rubber wrist strap and a standard buckle. For outside of work I use a SS band with the deployment clasp. Funny thing here is that the two watches are the exact same watches but with different faces and bands. Both are the Fossil Date/Time Chrono. Yes, I realize they are battery operated with Japan movement, but I'm not Special Ops, this aint SHTF and there has been no threat of EMP in my area of the world.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

My brother recently sent up a watch as a belated 60th birthday present, it has a metal bracelet type for the band so that comes with the deployant type clasp and works great.

BUT, boy is this a heavy heavy watch, an Invicta 12400 diving watch, really cool but really heavy lol

Makes the Citizen I just got feel like it's a toy...
G2

 

[Gary W. Graley]

I'm surprised that the standard buckle is still taking the lead, marginally, but still ahead. Since getting the deployant clasp for the Citizen I don't ever think I'd go backwards, well for me I call it going backwards. It works just so well and doesn't harm the leather what so ever, very nice stuff, glad I gave it a try!
G2

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Here's a tip for you guys/gals with deployant clasps that seem to not have as good of retention.

in this shot, you see the little small post between the two bars? That is what the other part of the clasps snaps onto, if it's not close enough, it can pop free easily, and be very annoying. I had sold this watch with this strap and clasp to a friend at work and he complained about it, so I took my Swiss Army Tool and use the long narrow screw driver to slip in between and 'VERY CAREFULLY' gave a little twist of the screwdriver tip so it made the bar very very slightly bump out, you probably won't even see that it's moved so don't over do it!!! but after I did that, the bar snapped down nice and solid and held things together a lot better and was overall more secure!

G2

 

[zzyzzogeton]

I couldn't vote. I know what a watch is, I don't use a buckle strap or a clasp strap. I've used nothing but black velcro sports/diving straps for the last 20 years. They provide a nice, tight fit, can be adjusted on the fly as your wrist swells or shrinks in dehydration/overhydration scenarios or over a wet suit or dry suit when diving. They're cheap, aren't affected by sweat or sea/pond/rain water, and easily wash out and dry quickly when mucked up with anything.

Still using the same auto-wind Seiko dive watch that I bought myself as a birthday present 12 Oct 1977. It's a little big and clunky, the luminous lettering died years ago but it's still working fine after 37 years and 6000+ dives.

 

[rbmcmjr]

Your clasp doesn't appear to lock. How does it stay secured to your wrist?

I use one of these locking double deployants on my Nav. B-Uhr:

 

[Clang!]

I tend to wear straps tighter then bracelets, and my wrist circumpherence changes with the weather. So, the straps get a conventional adjustable buckle. For bracelets, I wear a deployant clasp since it's fit looser then straps (and a PITA to adjust the length).

I just got my first expansion band (Spiedel Twist O Flex on my dress watch), but I haven't worn it enough to decide if I like it.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Hey Rick, the deployant clasp I have isn't as locking as yours, but then it's hidden completely below the strap so it's very trim. See the small pin between the bars? that is the Catch that the other end will snap down onto, like a very small latch, the one side has a groove cut into it so it's like a small letter c and that when pushed down will snap into place onto that small pin. That was what I was talking about if the snap isn't keeping as well, you can gently bend that pin out very very little to cause it to retain better. It's not a connection you'd want to hang from the ceiling with but for a watch strap it works pretty well.
G2

 

[rbmcmjr]

I see. Almost a spring catch, right?

 

[Gary W. Graley]

I guess kinda, no actual springs, here you can see on the right, the beveled angle of the part that snaps over the small pin on the left

G2