This morning Mike (recently moved from luxury watch store in Laguna Hills) of Watch City switched my Seiko Black Monster from its Super Engineer II bracelet to the stock H-links and we both agreed that the H-links look good with the case design (though they feel so light and cheaper than the SEII).
UPDATE: After a few hours I had the SRII put back on the Monster. Its stock bracelet felt too light and too cheap.
Also, we put the stock OSD bracelet back on the Orient Saturation Diver after removing the SEII, but Mike and I agreed that the SEII was a better match, especially since the light and thin stock links disappeared on my wrist. The OSD is hefty enough to stand up to the heavier SEII.
Mike had never heard of the 46mm OSD, but was very impressed with its quality and wrist presence and agreed with me that it was a worthy substitute for an oversized (usually 44mm) Rolex.
There's my watch drama for the day.
Here Jeff----here is a watch that could use a bracelet. I love my vintage Orient King Diver, though it cost a fraction of what they're asking for this model. I like the King Divers a lot.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-70s-Orient-Deluxe-1000-King-Diver-27-Jewels-Automatic-Diving-Watch-/281212040645?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item41798b35c5
Posted by: Angelo | April 24, 2014 at 01:28 PM
The OSD is a great watch for the price - one of the best for under $1K.
Angelo, I love that vintage Orient and have eyed them before but find them to be too expensive.
Posted by: jonnybardo | April 24, 2014 at 03:33 PM
I had not idea vintage Orients could be so pricey. Talk about patina.
Posted by: herculodge | April 24, 2014 at 03:38 PM
They are also usually a smaller case diameter than you're probably used to today. But very nice.
Posted by: Angelo | April 24, 2014 at 04:22 PM
My own similar watch drama might play out today----visiting a jeweler I've used in the past to fit two vintage watch heads with new bands---an old Wittnauer (hard to date----I'm thinking perhaps 40s or 50s) and an early '90s Wittnauer. Either band would look good with either watch head----my preference will be for the metal bracelet to mate with the Wittnauer and the black leather Movado band to mate with the modern Wittnauer. Funny thing----I took careful measurements and both watches appeared to have just about 18MM diameter band width at the lugs. I ordered 18MM bands---but they seem like a really, really tight fit to me----in fact, the metal one might need to be sanded down on a wheel that jeweler uses to shave sizes down. He used it once before on a silicon band I brought in to fit to a Nixon custom lug width. Or he might tell me he can't do it. Watches always on our minds.
Posted by: Angelo | April 25, 2014 at 04:09 AM