These are the first thing that go on your strap, they fray through in next to no time, even leather ones.
SO why can’t you just buy the bloody loops instead of a having to buy a whole strap.
This really pisses me off.
Actually, mine break around the buckle rather than the loops.
I am given to understand they also make watch straps of metal.
Mine usually give at the buckle too – but my current strap is now one loop instead of two, because of fraying. I feel your pain, spogga.
You ought to switch to a pocket watch on a chain. Rather distinguished-looking, wouldn’t you say?
You can buy the loops separately spogga. Sorta. Only they technically aren’t watch strap loops at all. They are little bitty rubber bands. (Like the kind put on braces.) Now they come in colors and everything so you can match your watch band. Or you could take the smallest regular rubber band and double it over until it’s snug and then slip your strap through that. Yeah, it’s a real look.
Metal watch straps are stupid. They pull the hairs outta my wrist. I guess it is a self-limiting stupidity though. Eventually I’ll run out of wrist-hair and then it won’t bother me anymore. But I don’t have the stick-to-it-iveness to get that far.
Metal straps suck and as for pocket watches how bloody old do you think I am? I’d look like Wyatt Earp sans guns with one of those crossing my well muscled torso.
Perhaps an eggtimer strapped to my wang or maybe an hourglass nailed to my left arm would do the trick.
BRACES??..lemme tell you RueDeDay we have this new invention in England, it’s called a BELT.
Over here in the US, braces are the little metal brackets that string together and straighten your teeth. The elastics of which (s)he speaks are the teeny tiny elastics that hook over the brackets.
Well in England if you have straight teeth people think you are either
A) An American
B) Wearing Dentures
C) A Dentist.
Straight teeth!! …really, whatever next, has the world gone mad?