Spring bars for gold watch

[Dero13]

Good morning OF,

Wondering what type of spring bars do you use on your gold watches? Are you afraid of steel eating into the softer gold?

Cheers,
Mike

 

[X350 XJR]

Just be sure the tips are the correct size for the holes and steel is just fine.

 

[Pastorbottle]

When you think about it soft spring bars would be about as effective as a fart in a cyclone

 

[Dero13]

Pastorbottle

When you think about it soft spring bars would be about as effective as a fart in a cyclone

Fair enough haha

 

[gatorcpa]

Omega used solid gold springbars on both 1948 Centenary models. My Ref. 2499 came with these.



If you look closely, you can see them here. I took them off, mainly because I wasn’t comfortable with 75 year old springbars holding the band in place. The steel ones work just fine, and they don’t need to be the expensive ones from Omega either.
gatorcpa