The Flightmaster thread

Yak1

Just got mine back from servicing—it’s nice to have it back on the wrist

kov

Your photography skills have seriously leveled up, Chris 👍 @tyrantlizardrex

tyrantlizardrex

The 145.013 is still an absolute pain though!

J Jiayiwong

Hi, just got a flightmaster with a 1162/172 strap, but for the life of me i cant seem to get the strap off, it is a spring bar in there right? the strap doesnt really have a window for your to insert your spring bar tool

MTROIS

That sounds about right... you need to bring it to a watchmaker, at least that's what I did.
The previous owner of mine had bent a bit the end link to make space for the tool to fit.... but my watchmaker straightened that back to factory specs. Not sure how you remove it properly.
May be @Archer can possibly chime in? (Thank you in advance Al for your advice and guidance...).

pascs

The early 1162/172 end links dont have much space but you can get a very fine spring bar tool in there and release the spring bar or a 1.0mm screw driver which is what I use. The later style end links have cut outs which make it easier to release the spring bar.
If the spring bars are old and tight it might be worthwhile to spray them with a little WD40 and leave them for an hour or so to ease up before trying to remove them.