Show us your NATO watch Straps

[Santos]

i'm also digging the bj7010 series eco drive watches... maybe more suited for you as the have bigger dials.

i particularly like the brown dial and brown leather strap but it may be to big for me 

[Santos]

Google is my friend 

bm8180 vs bj7010 size difference

[bdjeep]

you modded your own seiko divers and the thought of replacing a battery daunts you 

The modified divers that I pictured above, I actually accumulated the parts myself and sent the whole package to a watchmaker to do the modifications.  I have modified one Seiko myself, the one pictured below.  It started as a Seiko SKX173.  One day the movement stopped and I could not get it to run again.  I bought an inexpensive Seiko 5 from ebay and swapped the entire guts out of the 5 into the SKX173 (movement/dial/hands).  This was relatively easy.  The tricky part is dealing with the hands and I don't have the special tools for that.

The eco-drive isn't user-serviceable, you have to send it to somewhere else to have the energy cell replaced.  I've seen places that advertise on the internet that charge upwards of $100 to change the battery.  Besides the ecodrive, I currently own 4 other analog quartz watches and I change the batteries in all of them, plus the handful of cheap quartz watches that my wife brings back from flea markets and wants me to resurrect.

[Santos]

Finally i can say..

..Got Nato? 







1st shot:  Lorus Kinetic
2nd: Citizen Eco-drive BM8180-54E with green Nato strap, plus my Citizen Eco-drive-03E with OEM canvas strap
3rd: Gray
4th: Black
5th: Brown


Left to right: Lorus Kinitec, BM8180-54e, BM8180-03e


I have had the straps for just over a week now and was waiting on the arrival of the kinetic i won on ebay from the UK to see if it was 18mm or 20mm.. its 18mm which is good as i have ordered a few other styles including leather. There are two more types i need one being a beige/sand/cream which i will get when another a vintage army green with yellow pinstriping becomes available... the seller says he will be stocking it in 18mm soon.

The Lorus kinetic is wr100m and is a lumbribite dial. Its my new 'global travels' beater watch. Something that doesn't scream dollars at a glance, gets me from A to Z and hasn't got a dead battery on the subsequent trip.  I used to always fill this role with the casio digitals and chinese analog knock offs... but replacing the battery cost the price of a new one    One of the reason why i had stopped wearing watches in general is the hassle of batteries.

The lorus cost me $26 posted from the UK. I can get a china quartz watch for half that but 100m water rating alone is worth the extra.

I do prefer the military-isk watch shape of the eco drives over the hexagonal lorus shape, it seems to go with all the solid colors quite well. the lorus just looks wrong with the gray.  (however the more i wear the lorus with the green or brown the more i accept it)
I really like that how with the ecodrive that simply swapping the strap in under 20 seconds ties it in with whatever i'm wearing. This might sound 'fickle' but it has a very distinct advantage of camouflaging the watch. I dont mean in a 'you cant see me in the woods' kind of way but a 'glaze over don't single me out and start making social/preditorial mental equations' 

dunno counter-bling maybe? 

[nuphoria]

I'll put this here as well, mostly to demonstrate that a 22mm nato/zulu fits straight on to this Casio PAW2000

[lowtech]

Hello,
i´m a newbie ghere and would like to contribute one or two of my Casi G-Shock mods on NATO straps.









Cheers, Lowtech

[nuphoria]

Hello newbie, nice G's

[Santos]

I'll put this here as well, mostly to demonstrate that a 22mm nato/zulu fits straight on to this Casio PAW2000

whats it look like from the other side?

@Lowtech: Are they all the same strap or seprate?

[nuphoria]

Mine is a two piece Zulu so the black looks like a regular casio - I think there's room for a regular one piece to fit through, but this works really well and is comfy

[lowtech]

Thanks for teh nice comments.
the upper two watches are sitting on a cheapo NATO strap (The first being a modded DW-9500, the second the well known DW-5600E, fitted with adaptors from westcoasttime)
The last watch is on a Maratac strap, it´s a ZULU, so no second piece of strap under the watch.
All are 24 mm wide.