A Truly Different Watch Band for the Pebble Time – NATO Band

Pebble Time with Michael – Day 9

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I found this new watchband for my Pebble Time at my local Best Buy for only $6.50. It’s made by Clockwork Synergy. They produce an extensive variety of low cost watch bands, including some quick release bands just like the one that comes with the Pebble Time. My new watchband isn’t a quick release band, it is a NATO style band.

Originally designed for the British Military, where it was known as the G10 watch band, its key trait is a second shorter piece of nylon strap attached to the main strap’s buckle. Since this watch band was to be used by the military, it needed to be functional and fail-safe. The extra nylon strap has a keeper at its end through which the main part of the strap is passed through after it has been looped behind the watch. This creates a pocket, limiting the distance the case can move. As long as the strap is passed through properly and snugly on the wrist, the case will stay exactly where it was needed. A bonus feature of this design is that in the event that a spring bar breaks or pops out, the case will still be secured by the other spring bar and the watch will not fall off of your wrist.

I like the more casual look of this watch band and find it more comfortable than the original silicone watch band. Getting the original watch band off the quick release bars proved quite easy once I figured out the trick. The trick is to just pull and stretch the silicone watch band so that the end of the bar can be slipped out through the large hole the adjustment pin sticks out of. Then the quick release bars are just reattached to the Pebble Time and the NATO watch band strap threaded through them. Installation is very quick and easy!

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