First Things First: What strap will suit you?
Activities: Ask yourself, are you an active/sporty person, sweat a lot, need a flexible and tough watch band or do you need a watch which will complement your outfit?
How you use your swatch watch will determine what type of watch strap you should buy. Do not just buy straps based on the design and color but consider what, when and how you use your watch will be a crucial point in making that choice.
Secondly: What strap suit your watch?
This sounds like a silly question but it's really very important that your sporty watch don't get match with an elegant strap while your loud, color Swatch gets paired with a plain old leather strap.
Thirdly: Shall I buy the same strap I had been wearing before?
Yes, should you? You may go for this option almost immediately because it just seems right and logical to buy back the original strap (if you can find them) as it suits your watch well.
But you may prefer variety. Time for a change!
Another good reason for buying back the same strap is value. Consider someday you may want to sell off the Swatch watch. Do you know that having the original/same type of straps makes the value of your watch go up higher especially for potential collectors?
How many types of Swatch Watch Straps/Bands are there?
Basically, most of us think that there are three types of Swatch straps:
One: plastic
Two: leather
Three: Metal
Really? You would be surprised by the variety there is. Over at Squiggly website (a very good source for your swatch watches) there is a section for strap search.
Let's take an example of one tiny section labeled under Standard Gents.
Under this category you find 'standard' plastic straps
- 'standard' leather straps
- flex straps (elastic, metal straps. Comes in many colors and 2 sizes)
- flip lock strap (usually made of metal. Used mainly with Swatch Irony watches)
- elastic pop straps (only used for pop swatches)
- other straps
Woah. You may be thinking now "I should not have read this article it just confuses me more!" You maybe right there. Buying is most enjoyable relying on intuition and emotion rather than reason and rationality. However, if you find yourself in need or just curious and need more resources you can go to these sites (by no means comprehensive) below.
My site: Vintage Swatch Watch
Squiggly.com (mostly new watch bands).
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