Hello everyone, So a couple of months ago I sent my 1039/516 bracelet for restoration with Michael in Hong Kong. He did a great job and the bracelet was sent back with some sprint bars. After a couple of times struggling with taking off the bracelet, I realized they had sent back the bracelet with 22mm spring bars. The only plus side of those spring bars is that the bracelet didn’t rattle at all. Today, I put back the bracelet, but this time on 20mm spring bars and unfortunately there’s quite a lot of rattle. I tried putting spring bars from a modern Speedy I have, but they don't fit through. Long story short, does anyone here have any recommendations for spring bars for the 1039/516 bracelet that minimize rattling and how I could go about getting them. Thanks!
The mount between the lugs. The spring bar that goes through the 516 end link. Seems a Goldilocks spring bar is required, one that fits snuggly enough not to rattle. Thanks!
just shook my wrist, absolutely no rattling with non high-end bars You might need to adjust the 516s.
+1. The end links will need to be tightened a bit, if you bring it to your local watchmaker it should be an easy 30-second job. (Don't bring it to your local battery-change kiosk though)
Thanks guys, didn’t know it’s so easy, thought it needed special spring bars. I’ll go pay a visit to my watchmaker.
