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Strap for Victorinox Dive Master 500

fel2718

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Hello all,
Was wondering if anyone had some suggestions for a leather strap or other strap for this watch. It's a gunmetal case...
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fel2718

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It came with the white rubber strap, that just wasn't for me...I don't think black rubber looks good with the gunmetal case.
 

kp323

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Dark brown leather with minimal stitching might work. But if I were to own one like that I would use a nato or Zulu strap.
 

fel2718

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Thanks yea I like nato maybe leather but was never a compete fan of Zulu. Always wished there was a leather nato style strap that didn't have the extra buckles and looked like a traditional 2 piece leather strap


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kp323

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You can always cut off the part that goes under the watch.
 

fel2718

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Hmm I'll have to look into that. So this strap somewhere and have been looking for this if anyone knows where they would ha e something like that...
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rikhek

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I have same watch in orange dial which came with their orange rubber strap. I ove the watch but wasn't feeling the orange strap. If you want leather your choices are MANY. I wanted to maintain water resistance/usage so looked for a nice rubber strap. I bought about 4 cheap silicone and PVC bands and they all sucked. Slippery/oily feeling and made my wrist sweat.

After lots of research I came across a number of discussions with people the virtues of the Maratac Elite Composite strap. Some folks said it was better than GEN straps they literally paid well over 10 times more. As such, I bought a Maratac which is EXCELLENT and only $17 delivered off eBay. Hard to describe just how nice the Maratac is on the wrist and watch. They come in black with the standard contrast stitching colors. Your watch would look nice with whitw stitching.

Do a search on the sellers listings to see all the different stitching options.

The other option is a GEN Victorinox strap in black which is available on eBay for $58 in all GEN colors. The Victorinox rubber strap is excellent. However, I don't think they are any better than the Maratac and contrast stitching is not an option.

For some reason I can't post a link to the $17 eBay seller. Do an eBay search on the sellers name: "timepiecerepublic" and then search his store for "Maratac 22 white" to see white stitched straps.

For a GEN strap the eBay seller for $58 is: "magicstrap". He even has one in green similar to the colors you liked in leather.

I'm curious about your watch. I bought the same model about a month ago and it is quite a bit different than yours. My hands are sword hands and other differencdes as well. Is yours an older model?
 

rikhek

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I just realized yours is a quartz. I didn't see the watch you bought as I didn't look at their quartz watches. I shy away from quartz.

I bought the mechanical Victorinox Dive Master 500 from Ashford.com on May 31 for $362.50 DELIVERED. Ashford was running a special on the watch that I couldn't ignore as it was brand new in the box with full warranty. I love the watch and it's now one of my "going boating/swimming" watches. No issues and Ashford was GREAT to deal with. Fabulous watch seller.

Ashford doesn't show any stock on the mechanical version I bought but Amazon has them for $425:

https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-241354-Master-Mecha/dp/B002I41PM8

Back to straps, since posting my above comments I went back and bought 3 more of the Maratac bands in different stitching colors from the same seller.

Rick

P.S. Want a deal on a new GEN Victorinox orange band......

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