How to install and remove a watch bracelet? Watch and Learn #90
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2023
- Back to basics! Today we are going to revisit a basic task, installing or removing a bracelet from a wristwatch. This simple "mod" can add life to a sleeper in your collection, and doing it is super simple.
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Most people know the Lock Picking Lawyer (false set on 2).
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I was hoping Marc would do it all again. It could have been just a fluke.
Perfect! In the process of "sizing" the bracelet on my new Seiko I purchased from you. I got the bracelet off and removed two links from each side. Reinstalling the bracelet was a PITA (74 YO eyeballs here) so I gave up and threw on a Nato, lol. Plan to give it another go under magnification 🙏. Cheers!
As a last step when installing a bracelet, I use the fork or flat screwdriver to push outward on the spring bars to ensure they are fully into the holes in the lugs. Thanks for doing this series, Marc.
I’ve found the more you do this the easier it becomes. Thanks Marc. Have a great day!
That is so true.
Thanks dude, I owe you a beer! Def easier once the bracelet is undone at the clasp and flat. Doing this for my wife's tiny SRE003 was very tedious but I got it done.
My local jeweler gave me the tip to ignore those fork-tools and simply go with a small, flat screwdriver (around the size you use for bracelet screw-pins). I found this much easier for certain spring-bars that are often used in divers and their steel bracelets - the ones that have those two "rings"/shoulders towards the end where you're supposed to hook the fork between those two shoulders. I always struggled with those when using a fork and think it's much easier to "grab" them with the screwdriver side of my spring-bar tools.
A very thorough explanation and practical demonstration, great video 👍
Top tip tape the lugs top and bottom if paranoid about scratching.
For sure, good tip!
Marc. Your the freaking man. Keep crushing!!!
Push through spring bars and quick release bands are a big blessing for changes.
Launching spring bars into space is a right of passage.
If you are worried about scratches, a bit of electrical tape will help protect things
LOLOL.
Thanks Mark for this very helpful video, I’ve been trying to install a bracelet exactly like that one.
I’m pretty used to fitting and removing bracelets but just finished a battle royale refitting the bracelet on a seiko presage sharp edge. Absolute nightmare. There is zero gap between the link and the lugs. I managed in the end but should have got some purpose pliers for it.
This is incredibly helpful!
This was super-helpful! Thanks so much. 🙏🏻
Awesome vid! It worked!
I recently installed my Islander Duro bracelet so this is fresh on my mind, but I will say this: a higher quality bracelet always seems to be much easier to install. It's the cheap rattley stamped ones like come on a Seiko 5 that give me so much trouble.
I'm loving my Duro on an Islander bracelet. Such a beautiful set up for around $100.
Love these
Thanks, glad you do!
great job 👍
Tried, and tried again.. for an hour!.. and failure. Frustrating is an understatement!!
I know the feeling. It's easy to remove the strap but replacing with a bracelet is another story
I am embarrassed to say how many times I said “That’s what she said!” While watching this! Lol😂😂
Yeah, that went through my head.
I really enjoy your vids Marc.
On a side note-- i just ordered your BRAC 35 for my promaster BNO 150 today.
I was doing this when I was 10 with a old Stanley blade, no such thing as a spring bar tool in my house 50 years ago
Great video for the novice 👍
Thanks!
Looks easy enough lol
You're better at this than I am, but then you've probably done this a million times. I wish everyone would go for the quick release bars, it's SO much easier. I just took the clasp off my Formex rubber bracelet and put it on another one because the rubber bracelet had metal bits at the end that make it only fit the Formex (and I'm never going to use it on that watch). I managed it in the end, but it really fought me every second. And very few rubber bands can be put onto that clasp which is a shame because it's a nice mechanism. Maybe you should do a video on that Formex clasp.
When I change a watch bracelet I only ever use two tools.A sharp cold chisel and a 4" angle grinder. The new bracelets fit like a velvet glove but I often need to buy a new watch which is frustrating.
LOLOLOL
Thaks for the video, Marc. Any chance to get a similar tutorial for hollow end-links Jubilee bracelet?
I always come back to this vid every time I'm installing a bracelet because I keep forgetting which way is down. 😂
There is alot to like about this unique piece but it's just outside of what I'd find comfortable to wear daily mainly because I own a vintage decompression diver Nowhere near the modern specs of this beast Merkur watches came out with a more accurate interpretation at a super affordable price especially if the main purpose is a desk diver but you could probably smash it literally to pieces with this beast Thanks for sharing another great review my friend Be well and No Worries
Thank you very much for the video. You make it look quite easy, but for people like me is a nightmare.
I keep trying 😅
A beautifully edited video. Issues edited out include:
1. Swearing. Lots and lots of swearing.
2. Spring bars shooting across the room at Mach 2 and shattering the plaster in the wall opposite.
3. Wife treading on another missing spring bar and filing for divorce.
4. Wife finding a missing spring bar in bed (this one is uncomfortably true) and trying to shove said springbar up their husband's nose.
5. Wife feeling frisky, undressing provacatively when something small and shiny falls out of the bra. Yes, it's a missing springbar (it's a wonder I'm still married).
6. Kids eating cereal. Suddenly one of them looks like they're chewing a rock. Its a misssing springbar from another strap change marathon.
7 Dog starts choking; panicked dash to the vet. Springbarectomy; 10-page invoice.
Beginners beware, just buy a Paneria - lovely screw-in strap bars, marital bliss and no intervention from social services.
Peace and love to all from the uk.
Lol! Honestly, about 30 seconds were cut. That was it. I've gotten really good at this.
And scratches? I sure as hell have changed alot of straps easy but this seiko alpinist right now, man. I can get one side working fine, spring bars. But other side i can only get one side in and oh boy iv yanked the tool so many Times and its scratches fekin all over the backside and im on the verge of fekin yeeting this piece of living fukin shit out the Window. 690 bucks yep. I got tears
Never a bad idea to put the watch on a rag or paper towel to reduce crystal micro scratches
I'm always so worried about scratching the lugs and I'm sure many people do which is why quick release straps are becoming more and more popular.
Picked up one of your bracelets for the Citizen BNO158-00X (green). The lugs would not let me get both sides of the spring bars in (they should have drilled 'em) so I used some masking tape and very fine grit sand paper. Worked like a charm with no scratches and looks factory.
Sweet! Nice work!
Thanks for the video, Marc. I've saved it to my favorite videos playlist for future reference. A couple thoughts...
1. Will quick release bracelets be making their debut at Long Island Watch?
2. Two-tone Islander bracelets ("jubilee" style) would be a welcome addition to the store:)
I would like to see a competition between Marc and LPL 😂
This can be a major, major pain in the ass when the tolerances are much tighter. Getting better at it, though. Luckily most of my practice was on a San Martin so the scratches weren't important lol
I want your shirt(blue)!! Please tell me how to buy that.
Is it possible to remove ring that without having holes in bracelet ?
Stupid Question (possibly)
Can solid end links be converted to take quick release spring bars?
Painters tape on the watch can save on scratches.
The only complication maybe you can address is there are some bracelet end links that are so tightly machined you need to use springbar pliers to tweezers, a simple tool just will not work. I've run into two watches like that, I had to get sprinbar pliers to remove the links. The standard tools you showed just would not work.
I always remove the micro adjust. Maybe if you have better hand-eye coordination then I you don't, but it saves me time fiddling around..
Yeah, it's a good idea.
Hi Marc love Long Island Watch I own 4! Different kind of question but was wondering could you ever design a watch based on the Titanic...Might be cool as a bronze type watch 😉
Sounds like a cool idea :)
this is so hard damn
I might have just been overthinking it, it's hard to know when it's in
nope it's definitely not in and idk how to get it in rip
yeah I give up I'll get a watch shop to do it, just isn't working
How. Do. You. install. a. Watch. Bracelet? Watch. and. Learn 90
yes.
With leather bands I undo and replace with my thumb nail.
With bracelets I undo with the tool and replace with my thumb nail.
Yup, that works. And will never scratch anything.
You didn't cuss👍
Never do, (on camera at least!)
These instructions were impossible while trying to install a Raymond Weil Tango bracelet. There was simply no way to push back the spring pin while trying to seat the lugs into the watch mounting arms itself. There was zero tolerance/space whatsoever and even at a slight 1 or 2 degree angle with one end of the spring pin inserted the lug would not fit between the arms (or whatever they called) of the watch body.
Your hands look fine, don’t worry about not wearingng your gloves. Why are people looking at your hands instead of the watch!
Re production quality … it’s fine, Marc. We tune in for you and your watches. Please don’t add cheezy music or watches on turntables filmed by drones.
I can't argue with stats, though. I'm glad there's a core (hardcore!) audience, but I seem to have lost the appeal to the larger crowd.
@@islandwatch You are a candid person! In that case, ignore me and bring on the turntables! Stats don’t lie.
And please, Do Not try to change the Bracelet on Rosie O'Donnell's Watch without using Heavy Duty Tools and Assistance of HAZMAT Team. Thank you.
Start wrenching on paganis first work your way up
Yup!
Your hands look fine, don’t worry about not wearingng your gloves. Why are people looking at your hands instead of the watch!