While I wear mine on the Milanese the vast majority of the time, I do like to change things up every so often. I recently got this beige NATO form Cheapest NATO Straps, it has a similar weave to the ones you got from Crown & Buckle. I like this color combo, kind of gives the watch a more military feel to me.
P ppk487That looks nice I like that. I wouldn’t be opposed to changing out straps , I’m just too hesitant to try it myself. Is scratching the lugs inevitable ?
Thanks. If you're not experienced in changing straps, I wouldn't risk it on this watch.
Scratching the lugs can happen, but I wouldn't say it's inevitable. With proper tools, experience and techniques one can minimize the the risk of scratching. For example, I use plastic tape to help protect the lugs when changing straps.
P ppk487I took mine to get the bracelet swapped at my local boutique. Didn’t notice till I got home but I have some light scratches on the lugs only noticeable in the light. I hear since it’s Ti it’ll kind of heal over time. They are tiny and can’t be felt with your finger.
P ppk487I agree but then again what could be done? To be honest I had to work at that to get a clear enough picture. And I don’t have experience with Titanium but with how light that is (it has to only be in the surface, I can’t feel it at all) and what I’ve read I feel like that would oxidize and disappear, no?
here is another pic where I can’t even see it.
Let me report back after the wait for the shorter bracelet to arrive and after spending some time with it. Even though the shorter bracelet certainly helped to reduce the amount of overlap under the clasp and improved the overall look it unfortunately didn't help to provide a positive effect in terms of comfort on my 17 cm (6.69") wrist. On the contrary comfort got even slightly worse. Let me do a quick comparison which might also help others and let me start with the "setting" I'm most comfortable with and which also looks the best imo as the reference point ... at least when wearing the watch with the regular bracelet on a relatively small wrist.
- Reference point (A): Third to last hole (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the regular bracelet feels comfortable but slightly loose on my wrist and lets the watch slide.
- (B) Second to last hole (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the regular bracelet causes much overlap under the clasp, but prevents the watch from easily sliding back and forth.
- (C) Fifth to last hole on (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the shorter bracelet causes less excess under the clasp, but isn't as comfortable as (B) which came as a big surprised to me.
- (D) Sixth to last hole on (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the shorter bracelet causes even less excess under the clasp, but for this reason lets the watch even slide more than (A).
As many of you mentioned before, wearing this watch with the Milanese bracelet on a smaller wrist can be problematic. And even though there is a shorter version of the bracelet doesn't automatically fix that. In some cases like mine it makes things even worse.
P ppk487I was actually thinking about this. While I don’t have comfort issues at all I was wondering if I should buy the regular bracelet again just to have it if I ever wanted to switch it back. Sounds like we wear it at the same positions. Here was my regular bracelet before I had it swapped.
Let me report back after the wait for the shorter bracelet to arrive and after spending some time with it. Even though the shorter bracelet certainly helped to reduce the amount of overlap under the clasp and improved the overall look it unfortunately didn't help to provide a positive effect in terms of comfort on my 17 cm (6.69") wrist. On the contrary comfort got even slightly worse. Let me do a quick comparison which might also help others and let me start with the "setting" I'm most comfortable with and which also looks the best imo as the reference point ... at least when wearing the watch with the regular bracelet on a relatively small wrist.
- Reference point (A): Third to last hole (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the regular bracelet feels comfortable but slightly loose on my wrist and lets the watch slide.
- (B) Second to last hole (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the regular bracelet causes much overlap under the clasp, but prevents the watch from easily sliding back and forth.
- (C) Fifth to last hole on (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the shorter bracelet causes less excess under the clasp, but isn't as comfortable as (B) which came as a big surprised to me.
- (D) Sixth to last hole on (from the 6 o'clock positon) on the shorter bracelet causes even less excess under the clasp, but for this reason lets the watch even slide more than (A).
As many of you mentioned before, wearing this watch with the Milanese bracelet on a smaller wrist can be problematic. And even though there is a shorter version of the bracelet doesn't automatically fix that. In some cases like mine it makes things even worse.
@Mspeedster manually breaking in the bracelet didn't do it for me as the sixth to last hole (D) was already to loose and the fifth to last hole (C) slightly too tight - at least after a certain amount of time. I'm starting to believe - as you also just pointed out - that it's much more the length of the clasp instead of the bracelet itself which is causing the problems on smaller wrists and a certain shape as it has a more or less fixed position at the backside of the wrist like the watch on top.
I think the issue is that Omega didn't bother with a short clasp for this bracelet. The end result is that the bracelet can't wrap around the wrist for smaller sizes.
