Broken Daytona! The horror! The horror!

[WatchinMD]

Sorry that happened. Hope it gets sorted soon.

[Afghanvet]

Ohhh, dude... so sorry. Insurance??

[Hairdude1]

Ouch!

[Sublover2166]

Originally Posted by bdex75

Sucks. At least you were planning on a service soon anyhow. I bet this will be closer to $1100 when it is all said and done. I wear a lot of my watches on NATO's, but cheap NATO straps are usually cheap in the clasp department and that is hard to weed out looking at them on the inter web. A NATO with a good clasp and good spring bars is as secure as any other bracelet or combination, maybe more secure as you could have a spring bar failure and still not lose the watch. When you get it back it would look great on a Eulit Palma gray nato!!! Or will a black NATO off of a Tudor fit on a Daytona??

Agree: Service will be at least 1K or a bit more depending on water and shrapnel damage.

Disagree: A Daytona does NOT belong on a NATO. The Oyster bracelet is a thing of beauty and simple perfection. Why try to reinvent the wheel?

[Turbo23dog]

Keep positive. Think of it as a nice spa day for your watch. And you'll have the thrill of opening the box again. Win Win.

[bdex75]

Originally Posted by Sublover2166

Agree: Service will be at least 1K or a bit more depending on water and shrapnel damage.



Disagree: A Daytona does NOT belong on a NATO. The Oyster bracelet is a thing of beauty and simple perfection. Why try to reinvent the wheel?

Agree: it looks great on a bracelet.

I never said it belonged on a NATO. Just that if you are buy a good one so it is more secure.


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[Old Expat Beast]

Originally Posted by bdex75

Agree: it looks great on a bracelet.

I never said it belonged on a NATO. Just that if you are buy a good one so it is more secure.


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It's not officially a nato, but the fabric strap that comes with your Tudor Advisor is my favourite of all.

[bdex75]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

It's not officially a nato, but the fabric strap that comes with your Tudor Advisor is my favourite of all.

That is a great fabric strap. Great weave. The only one I like the look of as well is the BB bronze.


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[melman]

Originally Posted by GB-man

That's a James Bond color scheme NATO from the most respected maker there is. It is a perfectly classic look you just don't know it...yet

Lol! I know one thing. I wouldn't wear it.

[dbluevette]

Stay positive...At least it was only a watch.

[rouxeny]

Definitely gonna be more than $400

[thejerseyrock]

Ouch, indeed! Looks like the iphone5 i just dropped on the concrete (on the bright side, I have a new iphone7 now).... hope it works out for you....

[alfanator]

Ouch. Do you have a shot of the clasp? Thought those were solid rings. Did the stitching give?


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[BLACKHORSE 6]

Originally Posted by alfanator

Ouch. Do you have a shot of the clasp? Thought those were solid rings. Did the stitching give?


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The stitching didn't give. Whatever I caught the watch on put pressure on just the right way to pull the tang to the wrong side of the buckle. Hard to explain, but have a look at the picture. The tang should be pointed up instead of down.

Been wearing the watch on the strap for quite a while and never had any problems. Would never have thought that this would have happened. When I told my wife about it, she just rolled her eyes and called me a bull in a china shop for the millionth time in our marriage. I'm kind of like Tim Allen's character from "Home Improvement" in that I'm good at finding new and creative ways in breaking things.

[sea-dweller]

Ouch! Hope for a good outcome!


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[BLACKHORSE 6]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

Sorry to see that. I'm surprised we don't see broken nato buckles more often, they do seem very flimsy.

People like to talk about how a nato will save your watch if a springbar fails, yet every broken or dislodged springbar shown on the forums seems to have been caused by a nato. The fact that the watch is still dangling on the remaining springbar is somehow seen as the nato's selling point.

I've never seen a photo here of a springbar failure while the watch was on its steel bracelet.

Right. I know the oyster bracelet is bulletproof and this wouldn't have happened if it had been on the bracelet. I just never thought that something like this would happen.

The reason I called the strap cheap in my first post is because when I really looked at it in afterward, I could see when the problem. The buckle should have been designed better, though it took a good bit of force to cause it to fail.

When I get the watch back from RSC, it'll go back on the bracelet. If I do ever put it on a strap again, it won't be a Maratac and it'll definitely have a better buckle.

[steveng01]

Sorry to hear that. Lesson learned: get a better quality AM strap

[Ticknaway]

Regardless of the reason this occurred and the potential cost, the upside is that the watch should be beautiful when it is returned!

[Camel]

I feel your pain !

[smellychips]

the "bracelet" police are well and truly active in this thread! ... the world of watch wearing would be a boring place if we all looked the same.
good for you for sharing this even though you knew deep down the criticism would be thrown at you. respect for wearing and enjoying your watch in daily activity instead of keeping it in a vacuum sealed glass case like so many do these days.

[JP Chestnut]

Originally Posted by smellychips

the "bracelet" police are well and truly active in this thread! ... the world of watch wearing would be a boring place if we all looked the same.
good for you for sharing this even though you knew deep down the criticism would be thrown at you. respect for wearing and enjoying your watch in daily activity instead of keeping it in a vacuum sealed glass case like so many do these days.

The funny thing - what kind of strap does a milsub wear? Not the perfect, unbreakable, amazing, oyster - a crappy NATO.

The OP should just buy NATOs with good hardware. They exist.

[smellychips]

Originally Posted by JP Chestnut

The funny thing - what kind of strap does a milsub wear? Not the perfect, unbreakable, amazing, oyster - a crappy NATO.

The OP should just buy NATOs with good hardware. They exist.

well said that man!

[Etschell]

http://natostraps.com/

little different but more secure?

[Adamk]

This is not good at all,

[JP Chestnut]

Originally Posted by Etschell

http://natostraps.com/

little different but more secure?

Something more like this:
https://www.toxicnatos.com/products/...nt=11006095105

[Cryten]

I bought one of these AlphaShark straps from Blue Shark just out of curiosity.

https://www.blusharkstraps.com/collections/alphashark

They're 10 times better than your average Nato, and I see they have more colours now. There's no way you'd have hardware failure on one of these.

[Stealerfan86]

I never ever understood why people put an ugly $20 strap on
$10k watch, making it look like poop.
Just because fictional character James Bond did it... It doesnt make it cool, attractive, and safe
I hope your Daytona is not damaged beyond crystal but be prepared to do a full overhaul which costs more than $1000


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[Racerdj]

I hope they do a quick repair for you!

[Fleetlord]

That isn't a NATO.

[AH0RSEY]

you are insured right! gosh I hope so. I had a GMT root beer, completed rebuilt almost after a similar crystal, bezel, water accident..... came back looking fantastic, could never tell.... and as it came back with all the service stickers on it ( after the insurer paid out ), I sold it straight away and made a fortune!!!!! win all around....be lucky!!!