When I say Almost, I mean it’s not quite a link. It’s the piece of wankshoe they use to connect the strap to the watch itself.
I’ve had to replace that little turd of metal like twenty times for the same watch, and even now it has bent on both sides of the watch. Why can’t the join between the watch and the strap be as strong as the rest of the strap?
I expect perhaps boringly it’s a ‘safety feature’.
If it’s not a safety feature it ought to be - I can imagine situations where having one’s watch ripped off would be preferable to having ones’s arm ripped off.
I concur on it being annoying, though - once I lost a watch I was fond of by gripping a railing in panic after being told to climb down a seven-story air shaft to lay cables (I am acrophobic). Watch popped off and fell down those seven stories. Clambered down, didn’t find it.
What the hell are you doing with your watches that you are damaging them bad enough to replace the band pin 20 times!!! I wear my watch everywhere for everything and have only ever replaced the pin once or twice in 10 years.
Well… The most common thing is that my watch falls over the joint of my wrist where it gets thicker. If I then tense the wrist (picking/moving something heavy or pushing against something) the expansion forces the watch and bends the pins.
Big Fat Disclaimer: I probably should have mentioned in the OP that I am left handed, so my watch wearing arm is also my most active arm.
Probably shaking his fist at the Cubs. 
Why don’t you wear it on the other wrist then?
Wouldn’t feel right.
Being on that wrist I’d hope it would. 
I dunno man - I’m right handed and wear my cheapo off-brand Mickey Mouse watch on my right wrist and I kill the face or the band itself much faster than those tricky little bars.
You’re doing something weird with your wrist that I don’t do…hmmmm 
Well I suppose you’ll just have to find a watch that can accomodate the grotesque development of your wrist musculature.