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Has anyone here ever put a non-factory OEM rubber strap on the world timer?

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I noticed that on all the world timers with the rubber strap there's a piece of metal in between the rubber where it meets the lugs. It's not really my thing, I think I would like to watch a lot more if it didn't have that extra metal cladding.

has anyone here installed a rubber strap that's either third-party or even another one from Omega that doesn't have that piece? Like maybe one from the seamaster line or just a different watch? If so do you think you could post a photo of it? Would love to see what it looks like

I asked chat GPT to generate one, and it actually looks pretty bad ass, but again it's not real, would be so cool to see one that's real

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IMO, it NEEDS that metal strip, else the strap and the bezel don't have enough contrast. PARTICULARLY with the black or green ones.

I think a 'solid-color' band would be fine on either of the blues, since they have the steel colored bezel.

As example, check out the sedna gold with bracelet: https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/...ronometer-gmt-worldtimer-43-mm-22050432202001

To me, it is a MUCH worse looking watch because of it is a 'big blob' of 1 color. That said, the DIAL is at least a different color. Black/Green would be just 1 homogeneous blob of color.
 
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ErichKeane ErichKeane
IMO, it NEEDS that metal strip, else the strap and the bezel don't have enough contrast. PARTICULARLY with the black or green ones.

I think a 'solid-color' band would be fine on either of the blues, since they have the steel colored bezel.

As example, check out the sedna gold with bracelet: https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/...ronometer-gmt-worldtimer-43-mm-22050432202001

To me, it is a MUCH worse looking watch because of it is a 'big blob' of 1 color. That said, the DIAL is at least a different color. Black/Green would be just 1 homogeneous blob of color.

I think the point of that particular model is to make other people stare at your giant... pink.... gold.... watch.
 
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ErichPryde ErichPryde
I think the point of that particular model is to make other people stare at your giant... pink.... gold.... watch.
You are probably not wrong 😁 I'm definitely not the audience for those monstrosities.
 
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When I had my Worldtimer, I would often wear it on a Planet Ocean alligator/rubber-backed strap:
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