Show us your NATO watch Straps

[Santos]

G10, Zulu and other canvas/nylon knock offs.

I'm about to buy a few and like to see some with various watchfaces 

- chuuurs

[jzmtl]

Bond style zulu:

[Grant Lamontagne]

ZA1 with olive green NATO strap.



Def

[Vladimir]

Seiko Orange Monster with two-piece orange nato

[Zed]

ZA2 on a correct U.S type bond nato, 


rotary diver on a green nato,

6309

grey and black nato,

[bdjeep]

Here is a black ZULU on a modded Seiko SKX007:



Here is an OD ZULU on a modded Seiko SKX007:



Here is a gray NATO on a small Citizen Eco-drive:



Here is a gray ZULU on a Seiko Sumo:



Here is a black NATO on a blue Luminox:



Here is the gray ZULU on a Sandoz submariner:



And my newest combo is an OD ZULU with low-light hardware on a black DLC Steinhart Ocean 1:

[Santos]

Here is a gray NATO on a small Citizen Eco-drive:

  Bm8180-03e.. i got one, cept its still on its original green canvas band... wanna sell me yours so i can ave a spare? 

Actually got a second one on layby atm, but bm8180-54a, black face, orange second hand instead of the red, and has small orange seconds numbers at 10sec intervals, metal bracelet. Its one of the ones i want to nato.. either rescue orange or military brown, either in pvd.  I have been trying to find another pre-loved BM8180-03e on ebay but the last 3 this month have all sold for more than local retail!

Other things i've been wanting is an automatic diver on ebay.. but even the crummy-est seiko/citizen watch with beaten up, chipped and battered watch goes for a fair sum... i guess they are great chassis for Modding.. what is a good site to look into what this involves?

The final watch will be a certain sexy doomsday casio ... just need to finish this work contract in this week or so..
 

It becoming vey apparent that watches are what i'm using to substitute my tool and knife habit 

[Zed]

Here is a gray NATO on a small Citizen Eco-drive:

  Bm8180-03e.. i got one, cept its still on its original green canvas band... wanna sell me yours so i can ave a spare? 

Actually got a second one on layby atm, but bm8180-54a, black face, orange second hand instead of the red, and has small orange seconds numbers at 10sec intervals, metal bracelet. Its one of the ones i want to nato.. either rescue orange or military brown, either in pvd.  I have been trying to find another pre-loved BM8180-03e on ebay but the last 3 this month have all sold for more than local retail!

Other things i've been wanting is an automatic diver on ebay.. but even the crummy-est seiko/citizen watch with beaten up, chipped and battered watch goes for a fair sum... i guess they are great chassis for Modding.. what is a good site to look into what this involves?

The final watch will be a certain sexy doomsday casio ... just need to finish this work contract in this week or so..
 

It becoming vey apparent that watches are what i'm using to substitute my tool and knife habit 

Be carefull of seiko divers from the philipines (no offence intended) but theres plenty of bad ones and ive be warned off them by people who have had ones that have turned up not working and built up from incorrect parts 

[bdjeep]

Be carefull of seiko divers from the philipines (no offence intended) but theres plenty of bad ones and ive be warned off them by people who have had ones that have turned up not working and built up from incorrect parts.

I have not heard of this on any of the watch forums that I've been on, but even the low priced Seikos are faked by somebody and you could end up with a fake instead of a real Seiko.  I have comparison photos of a fake vs. real somewhere.

I have found that the best place to buy Seiko divers is from the Singapore sellers on ebay.  They have the best prices by far, good service, and very good feedback.  Even better would be buying used from a watch forum member in your same country, if you can wait around until you find what you are looking for.  Buying in an actual store will cost you twice the price or more.

For watch modding parts, I went to 10watches.com.

That little Citizen eco-drive is the only watch in my photos above that I don't still own.

[Zed]

Be carefull of seiko divers from the philipines (no offence intended) but theres plenty of bad ones and ive be warned off them by people who have had ones that have turned up not working and built up from incorrect parts.

I have not heard of this on any of the watch forums that I've been on, but even the low priced Seikos are faked by somebody and you could end up with a fake instead of a real Seiko.  I have comparison photos of a fake vs. real somewhere.

I have found that the best place to buy Seiko divers is from the Singapore sellers on ebay.  They have the best prices by far, good service, and very good feedback.  Even better would be buying used from a watch forum member in your same country, if you can wait around until you find what you are looking for.  Buying in an actual store will cost you twice the price or more.

For watch modding parts, I went to 10watches.com.

That little Citizen eco-drive is the only watch in my photos above that I don't still own.

I was told this on a few watch forums over the years so put me off,although seiko divers prices have shot up so worh ta gamble at some of those prices 

[enki_ck]

Be carefull of seiko divers from the philipines (no offence intended) but theres plenty of bad ones and ive be warned off them by people who have had ones that have turned up not working and built up from incorrect parts.

I have not heard of this on any of the watch forums that I've been on, but even the low priced Seikos are faked by somebody and you could end up with a fake instead of a real Seiko.  I have comparison photos of a fake vs. real somewhere.

I have found that the best place to buy Seiko divers is from the Singapore sellers on ebay.  They have the best prices by far, good service, and very good feedback.  Even better would be buying used from a watch forum member in your same country, if you can wait around until you find what you are looking for.  Buying in an actual store will cost you twice the price or more.

For watch modding parts, I went to 10watches.com.

That little Citizen eco-drive is the only watch in my photos above that I don't still own.

I was told this on a few watch forums over the years so put me off,although seiko divers prices have shot up so worh ta gamble at some of those prices 

The watch maker in my home town stopped selling Seiko automatics cause he says from 7 he sold, 6 got returned with faulty mechanisms. He said it were the newer models only, the monster divers he never had a problem with.

[Zed]

Be carefull of seiko divers from the philipines (no offence intended) but theres plenty of bad ones and ive be warned off them by people who have had ones that have turned up not working and built up from incorrect parts.

I have not heard of this on any of the watch forums that I've been on, but even the low priced Seikos are faked by somebody and you could end up with a fake instead of a real Seiko.  I have comparison photos of a fake vs. real somewhere.

I have found that the best place to buy Seiko divers is from the Singapore sellers on ebay.  They have the best prices by far, good service, and very good feedback.  Even better would be buying used from a watch forum member in your same country, if you can wait around until you find what you are looking for.  Buying in an actual store will cost you twice the price or more.

For watch modding parts, I went to 10watches.com.

That little Citizen eco-drive is the only watch in my photos above that I don't still own.

I was told this on a few watch forums over the years so put me off,although seiko divers prices have shot up so worh ta gamble at some of those prices 

The watch maker in my home town stopped selling Seiko automatics cause he says from 7 he sold, 6 got returned with faulty mechanisms. He said it were the newer models only, the monster divers he never had a problem with.

   thats a shame, it was the older models like the 6309's etc i was told to be carefull 

[Santos]

That little Citizen eco-drive is the only watch in my photos above that I don't still own.

Was it as we say in Brasil... ' not your beach? '   or is there some known problems with that model citizen? (since i'm wanting multiples!)

[bdjeep]

That little Citizen eco-drive is the only watch in my photos above that I don't still own.

Was it as we say in Brasil... ' not your beach? '   or is there some known problems with that model citizen? (since i'm wanting multiples!)

It was a little small for me, and I finally found a different eco-drive that I was looking for to replace it.



My experience with eco-drives has not been real good.  I've owned 3 and the most recent one I've had some trouble with.  Right now it is dead and will not run at all if not in the light.  I can leave it in a windowsill for a couple of days and as soon as I take it away, it dies.  I understand it needs to have its energy cell replaced which looks like an expensive repair.

[Santos]

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

one of my own ambitions is to mod my quartz Havoc Amphibian by Adina with a seiko kinectic movement, problem is i just replaced the battery at the jewellers and they pressure tested it which meant it cost me $65  when i thought it would be $15 or so for just the battery