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Solid Watch

For this post I’m going to review my newest watch… the Skeleton Mechanical Solid Watch by Henry Juskevicius (who’ll be referred to as Henry, or Mr. Juskevicius moving forward).

The history with this watch is an interesting one. For one, it’s the second Kickstarter project I’ve ever backed. Second, it was the first time I allowed myself to invest more than $400 on a service like Kickstarter. 1 This watch cost me $650, but has now gone up to $850 since then – and is said to eventually (who knows when that’s going to be) sell for $3,000 Read More

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⇡1 This watch cost me $650, but has now gone up to $850 since then – and is said to eventually (who knows when that’s going to be) sell for $3,000
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Going industrial

I just realized that while my watch’s stock metal bracelet is nice and all, I guess I find them (metal bracelets) too much of a hassle. This realization came when I learned how to adjust the links myself – which obviously made me try different “fits.”

When you factor in stuff like wrist expansion due to heat, metal bracelets can be very impractical in a tropical country. Since they’re metal, you can’t really “adjust them” depending on the “weather” that day. That’s why they have different “guides” for straps and bracelet fitting. If you’re on a strap, it’s always better for it to be snug. If it’s metal, you put an allowance as thick as your index finger – so you don’t end up choking your wrist with a super tight strap during a hot and humid day. While some watches look fine loose, given the size of mine, it always looked better snug rather than having a little play during the cold.

So I started looking for a replacement strap and immediately thought of the Nato strap popularized by Sean Connery (as James Bond) in the movie Goldfinger

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