Deployant, Deployante, Deployment, Clasp

Leftinthelurch · Jan 30, 2016

Hey everybody, I'm just looking for a steel deployment clasp. Could anybody recommend a good brand/place to purchase one? Also, are they comfortable? What are people's experiences? Thanks all!

cicindela · Jan 30, 2016

First the name is deployant clasp. There are many brands, which are you looking for?

lillatroll · Jan 30, 2016

There is no such word as deployant in any English dictionary in any English speaking country in the world. The closest word you will find is the french term deployante but this word is only found in French dictionaries . In the UK deployment is equally correct or incorrect depending on your point of view.

alam · Jan 30, 2016

Leftinthelurch
......are they comfortable? What are people's experiences?....

Comfort will feel different to each user. I find Omega OEM d-clasps super comfotable to wear, easier to put on/take off [from the wrist] and tend to be gentler to strap wear. I have seen folks around here selling Omega clasps stating comfort/fit issues as the main reason to ditch them.

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cicindela · Jan 30, 2016

Not according to the watch companies
Deployant is a translation from the french;
deployante
There are many nouns that are not in dictionarys.
This is from www.chronocentric.com:

Deployant Clasp a clasp mechanism for use with watch straps. This allows a leather or other watch strap to operate similar to a watch bracelet. This gives a nicer, more finished appearance than the traditional tang-type buckle on most straps. Sometimes mistakenly called a 'deployment' clasp.

Plenty of discussion here:
http://forums.watchuseek.com/f2/time-settle-once-all-deployant-vs-deployment-360266.html

As to deployment:

1 a : to extend (a military unit) especially in width b : to place in battle formation or appropriate positions
2 : to spread out, utilize, or arrange for a deliberate purpose <deploy a sales force> <deploy a parachute>
intransitive verb
: to move, spread out, or function while being deployed <the troops deployed along the front> <the parachute failed to deploy>

de·ploy·able play \-ə-bəl\ adjective
de·ploy·ment play \-mənt\ noun

lillatroll · Jan 30, 2016

Chronocentric is not a dictionary. I am aware that deployant clasp is a commonly used term to describe a particular type of clasp. In britian Deployment clasp is commonly used to describe the same type of clasp. Both deployant and deployment are technically incorrect but both are used and understood to describe a particular type of clasp depending on where you come from in the world. This being so, it is wrong to use either deployant or deployment and we should all try to use deployante or we should accept that both deployant and deployment are acceptable terms.

cicindela · Jan 30, 2016

lillatroll
Chronocentric is not a dictionary. I am aware that deployant clasp is a commonly used term to describe a particular type of clasp. In britian Deployment clasp is commonly used to describe the same type of clasp. Both deployant and deployment are technically incorrect but both are used and understood to describe a particular type of clasp depending on where you come from in the world. This being so, it is wrong to use either deployant or deployment and we should all try to use deployante or we should accept that both deployant and deployment are acceptable terms.

Well that's your opinion 😜

I will continue to purchase deployant clasps from Omega, because that is what they list and sell.😉

BlackTalon · Jan 30, 2016

Maybe accept that the OP was not asking if the word was correct, but looking to be pointed in a direction, and what people think of them?

cicindela · Jan 30, 2016

BlackTalon
Maybe accept that the OP was not asking if the word was correct, but looking to be pointed in a direction, and what people think of them?

Which was done. "There are many brands, which are you looking for?"

cicindela · Jan 30, 2016

This being so, it is wrong to use either deployant or deployment and we should all try to use deployante or we should accept that both deployant and deployment are acceptable terms

I like this. How shall we pronounce it, de ploy ant, or de ploy anté 😁

BlackTalon · Jan 30, 2016

cicindela
Which was done. "There are many brands, which are you looking for?"

Sorry, I was replying to the previous post. Yours posted just before mine did. Should have used Quote 😬

abrod520 · Jan 30, 2016

I think deployant is an Anglicized form of deployante therefore should be used.

VetPsychWars · Jan 30, 2016

I like the OEM Omega clasp. Like any other that uses discreet holes for adjustment, you might get stuck with a choice of too tight or too loose. I find that I like that it can be used with both leather and rubber straps.

If you're a little OCD, when it doesn't sit just right on your wrist, the tail end might stick out. After a few weeks of compulsively straightening, it'll be ok, though.

Also nice that on eBay you can source many aftermarket straps. I bought mine from Otto Frei.

Also avoid the cheap copies. I find that they're bent too sharply and don't fit well on my European-descent American wrist.

Tom

lillatroll · Jan 30, 2016

cicindela
I like this. How shall we pronounce it, de ploy ant, or de ploy anté 😁

It doesn matter, I am going to buy mine from Ofri because they sell deployment clasps, so,its not going to be an issue. But if I was to get on the dog and ask for one I would say de ploy ante or can I have one of them claspthingys that no one says right and everyone would know what I was on about😕

Davidt · Jan 30, 2016

Speedmaster isn't a word either.

In response to OP. The Omega deployants are great but they do limit the straps you can use with them. Most generic leather straps aren't compatible.

wsfarrell · Jan 30, 2016

If you're searching on eBay, you'll want tp use the "deployment" spelling.

I have both the genuine Omega clasps, which are absurdly expensive, and the eBay clones, which I find to be just as good and vastly cheaper. The main thing I like about them, which people don't seem to mention much, is that they start and remain well-centered on my wrist. Regular leather buckle straps (and standard metal bracelets) tend to ride up to one side.

RawArcher · Jan 30, 2016

cicindela
I like this. How shall we pronounce it, de ploy ant, or de ploy anté 😁

I'm getting spooked by this whole conversation. I just looked up Heuer in the dictionary and THAT word is not in there. From now on I'm calling those watches Higher!

abrod520 · Jan 30, 2016

wsfarrell
If you're searching on eBay, you'll want tp use the "deployment" spelling.

Or you could go with deployant, and choose to support those who make the effort to spell it correctly 😉 😁

ulackfocus · Jan 30, 2016

Do you guyz really want me involved in this same old discussion again? 😵‍💫

RawArcher
I'm getting spooked by this whole conversation. I just looked up Heuer in the dictionary and THAT word is not in there. From now on I'm calling those watches Higher!

Autocorrect turns Breitling into Breathing. 😒

lillatroll
or we should accept that both deployant and deployment are acceptable terms.

NEVER!!!!! 😲🤬

It's deployant, derived from the French word for "folding". Simple as that.

alam · Jan 30, 2016

multiple deployments may result in PTSD... well-made deployants will set you back several hundred dollars... 😁

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Deployant, Deployante, Deployment, Clasp

Leftinthelurch

cicindela

lillatroll

alam

cicindela

lillatroll

cicindela

BlackTalon

cicindela

cicindela

BlackTalon

abrod520

VetPsychWars

lillatroll

Davidt

wsfarrell

RawArcher

abrod520

ulackfocus

alam

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