Velcro straps & steel bracelets... in spaceflight

Mentioned "spaceflight" in the title as this is part of Moonwatchuniverse' esoteric research and will only be interesting for spaceflight nerds/aficionados.
I often get questions about straps and bracelets used in both USSR & USA manned spaceflight missions, so making this topic so I can point to it...
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During the first manned spaceflight missions, the Russian Vostok cosmonauts wore their military Shturmanskie "Navigator" pilot watch on a strap partly integrated in the orange outer layer of the space suit. Although Valentina Tereshkova clearly wore it on a longer leather strap.
On early Soyuz missions the cosmonauts wore a stretchy cloth strap over the left forearm of their Sokol spacesuit, on ASTP Leonov & Kubasov also had a nice light blue stretch strap which they wore either at the wrist or in the elbow pit.
Between 1982 & 1992, a brown cloth strap was often worn e.g. on the Speedmaster 125 worn 131 days-in-space by Vladimir Dzhanibekov.
The black Velcro strap made its entry in 1990 and modern-day Russian ISS crews still wore these well-known black Velcro straps in 2022...
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On the American side, the first officially NASA-issued astronaut watches, 24 hours dial & movement 34 mm LeCoultre watches based on the Quartermaster, came on two versions of the stretchy Forstner Komfit - Jacoby Bender Champion "WatchMate" bracelets.
These watches were used between September 1959 and October 1963, during daily life, NASA training and PR events... never in space.
Quiet early on NASA astronauts adopted the lightweight steel mesh Forstner Komfit, later Jacoby Bender Champion bracelets.
The space agency even allowed them to wear these breakable steel mesh bracelets during the actual spaceflight mission and these have been worn since October 1962 (Walter Schirra - Sigma 7) up to at least June 1985 (Steven Nagel - space shuttle Discovery STS-51G).
In June 1965, the Gemini IV crew, James McDivitt and Edward White were the first to wear their NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003-63 on a long black Velcro strap... remember each astronaut wore two Omega Speedies, so 4 Speedies on Gemini IV.
These black Velcro straps are still used today... without or without Omega logo text.
During late Gemini & early Apollo program there was a period during which White Velcro straps were used... only during training.
(Photos: LIFE / NASA)
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