Gotta love Nato Straps

I have several watches I wear on NATO straps. 👍

Yep - me too. They are well built straps, can be safer that a regular strap, and in my eye look fine on an appropriate watch. Then again I do tend to like military watches, so NATO's are quite common there.

There are times when I get a very distinct "old man" flavor from this forum with regards to taste in watches. When I see yellow gold watches on yellow gold bracelets, that's screams "old man" watch to me. Like people 80+...trying not to offend anyone who may be in or approaching that age bracket...my step-father is 84 and he wears watches like this - on expansion bracelets no less!

I bought one gold watch once, but sold it on not long after. Was a vintage Elgin Chronograph:



Not saying there is anything wrong with these watches at all, they are just not my thing, just like NATO's are not your thing. I think despite these earth shattering differences we can co-exist here. 😉

Cheers, Al

Hey no worries, just having some fun mate. And yes those spring loaded lug width adjusters are brutal. I can usually convince someone who sends me a watch on one of these to toss it, but sometimes they just insist...ouch!