Forstner bands relaunched

bazderome

Pressure will be created by the weight of the watch itself anyway, put your arm down along your body you can see how much tension is made.
I don't have the NTTD in hands but I guess it could get the same kind of wear, metal against metal friction will always do that.
One of the solution could be to have a softer material in between the two to take the damage, like a thin rubber layer that will have to be replaced from time to time. It has been discussed about the JB on here, people tried small o rings but then you have to deal with cosmetic change as they are visible.

lexieb007

My guess is the original JB was designed with springed endlinks so it could be swapped out with ease (rather than using a watch tool or taking it to a watchmaker? Part of the patent? That they had no idea of the long term wear on lugs problem. Is this correct?

So why not redesign and better Forstner with endlinks that use spring bars?

lexieb007

My guess is the original JB was designed with springed endlinks so it could be swapped out with ease (rather than using a watch tool or taking it to a watchmaker? Part of the patent? That they had no idea of the long term wear on lugs problem. Is this correct?

So why not redesign and better Forstner with endlinks that use spring bars?

Hands90

My question is why does this happen if the bracelet maxes out at 20mm. There should be no spring action to hit against the lugs

bazderome

It was made more for as a generic bracelet. The spring loaded system was designed to fit a wide quantity of watches despite the different lug sizes with a single bracelet. The JB was not made for the speedmaster.

Pius XIII

Has anyone tried the flat link on the 3861 Speedy yet?

FFabian

Forstner has a wide variant of the mesh bracelet. The thread is pretty long - I tried to skim through but found nothing about it.

Any experience with the wide bracelet? Pictures? The critics don't like the "Lolipop"-Look - does the wider bracelet help with this?

FFabian

Did someone try to insert small O-Rings between the end pieces and the lugs to prevent scratching?


I ordered something similar to this:


https://www.amazon.de/gp/produ…tle_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


The endpiece is spring loaded so it should be possible to insert the o-rings between lug and end piece. Or am I wrong here? Does it look terrible?

Pius XIII

Has anyone tried the flat link on the 3861 Speedy yet?

Hands90

It's on. Just got it with the bergeon tool. I was able to avoid all scratches that I could tell. Was not too bad to remove the bracelet on the 3861

n-theory

Wasn't sure where to post this and couldn't find it definitively on the site. Can someone confirm what size those micro screwdrivers are? Is it 1.4mm? The screw size seems close to my other omega bracelet and I'd like to get a quality one (Bergeon or similar).