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Welcome to this watch LIFE. 
Hi, I'm Lydia Winters. 

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And I'm Boo Booey and it is 
summertime. 

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It is summertime and I'm headed 
to a hot, hot place called 

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Florida. 
When you're listening to this, 

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dear listeners, I will probably 
be on a plane on my way to 

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Florida. 
That is true and. 

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Foo will be alone in the perfect
Swedish summer. 

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Yes, it's the the Swedish summer
is the summer I really like. 

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There's a few hot days, but 
otherwise it's just nice. 

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It's mostly cold. 
I wouldn't call it cold. 

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It's not cold, but it's no not 
warm either. 

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No, it's like an LA winter, 
Yeah. 

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Which to me is like kind of 
nice. 

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It's a Florida winter for. 
Sure, yeah. 

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But since it's the middle of 
summer and you're going 

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somewhere, really, really, 
really. 

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Warm. 
Really warm. 

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Right then, we thought we'd talk
about summer watch habits. 

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Summer watch habits. 
Sweating straps. 

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Well, yeah, I guess. 
Yes, straps is what I meant to 

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say. 
Yes, sweating in straps. 

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The thing is, OK, I used to 
think that I did not have 

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different habits for summer 
versus winter. 

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Yeah, you have said that before.
Yeah, I have said that before, 

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but recently I've realized, no, 
that's totally not true. 

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I just like. 
I don't, I don't know why, like.

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That's the thing I said, but I 
didn't follow through with. 

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It but since you're going to 
Florida, we had to think like, 

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oh, OK, well, how do you prepare
for an even hotter place than 

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Sweden? 
Well, yes, which? 

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Is anywhere. 
Just a very hot place. 

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Yes, I would say other than to 
visit my family, I would not go 

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to Florida in July. 
That that is true. 

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You've said it many times 
before, but you are going and 

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like OK, when I'm talking about 
straps for your watch for 

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summer, the considerations I'm 
thinking about are really only 

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two things. 
One is that you're more sweaty 

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than usual. 
OK, I don't mean you, I mean 

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just everyone. 
Like OK, thank you people in 

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general, that felt very pointed.
I was looking at you when I said

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that. 
I'm like, Oh no, no, I don't 

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you. 
Are very sweaty. 

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But also, there's just more 
opportunity that you may end up 

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in the water. 
See, at any time you could end 

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up in the water. 
OK, I will say that is actually 

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true a consideration for me in 
Florida. 

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Yeah, that I may end up in the 
water. 

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I will choose to go in the 
water. 

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Unlike you, I don't believe I 
might fall in the water at any 

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time, you know, but. 
I've seen you standing at the 

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edge looking at manatees or 
dolphins at the. 

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I do always look like I could go
in, yeah. 

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And you are very likely to. 
Fall, I do have a sort of 

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imbalance, yeah. 
So, OK, OK, OK. 

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When you think about that, like 
I always start with like metal 

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bracelet, right? 
It's what when I buy a watch 

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that offers a metal bracelet, I 
always say just get it with the 

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bracelet. 
You know, like ABB 54. 

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Yeah, that would be a perfect 
watch for a bracelet. 

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You think you would have 
definitely bought the bracelet? 

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I bought the rubber strap first 
because I decided I would not 

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have it on a bracelet. 
Then I immediately wanted the 

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bracelet, and the bracelet's 
very comfortable. 

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I'm a stickler for a good 
bracelet though. 

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Yes, and this one is a good 
bracelet. 

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That's the thing. 
OK, so, so the the key to buying

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the the the reason you buy a 
bracelet when you buy the watch 

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is cause typically they're 
they're cheapest when you buy it

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with the watch and other options
are not as much more. 

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Yeah, that's true to get second,
right. 

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So you buy the bracelet first is
the most economical way to do 

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it. 
But also, you know, who knows, 

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someday you want to sell the 
watch, Easier to sell if you 

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have the bracelet right 'cause 
people, a lot of people think of

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like the bracelet as the key 
component to the watch. 

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Like that's what goes with the 
watch. 

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But obviously if you don't like 
bracelets, I'm not saying you 

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have to get the bracelet. 
Oh, OK, you're not telling 

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everyone you must. 
No, it's not a must. 

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Well, you did told me I should 
and then I didn't, but you like.

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Bracelets. 
You like bracelets. 

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And so when you decided like I'm
not going to get the bracelet, I

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have a bracelet on my Explorer. 
What do I need a bracelet on the

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BB54? 
And I was like, you're going to 

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want the bracelet. 
And you, you did not. 

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Well, you know, and then you 
bought the bracelet and it was 

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expensive. 
Yeah, don't do it that way. 

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Don't do it that way. 
It's a bad idea. 

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Well, a good bracelet is super 
comfortable. 

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My favourites. 
My personal favourites, 

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unsurprisingly the Rolex Oyster 
and jubilee bracelets, but also 

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the Tudor three link. 
I think the Tudor three link and

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Rolex Oyster like in terms of 
comfort I don't really notice a 

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difference. 
Yeah, I really like the Diver 65

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bracelet. 
Super comfortable. 

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Really. 
Nice, I do find like a sort of 

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three link bracelet for me. 
I prefer even to Jubilee. 

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Yes, but good bracelets aren't 
guaranteed and there's always 

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the adjustment issue like you 
know, do you have quick adjust? 

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Do you have micro adjust? 
Those are two separate things. 

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In summer, that's extra 
important. 

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It is extra important. 
It is, but also sometimes you 

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just want to change the look or 
feel of your watch and hence 

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straps. 
Oh yes, I yeah, haven't. 

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I am. 
I'm dipping my toes in the 

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water. 
Yes, you are. 

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And may fall in. 
But we like there's a few 

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watches that we both own that 
already came with fabric straps 

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as well. 
Well, OK, my BB58 blue, it 

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didn't come with the fabric 
strap, but I got it at the same 

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time as I got the watch. 
And when you bought the BB 58 

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silver it came with because that
that one comes on one of Tudor's

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OEM fabric straps and those are 
fantastic. 

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They're these single pass fabric
straps and the way that the pins

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fit into it is really nice. 
Like it doesn't move around. 

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They're fantastic. 
I'm not really a NATO person. 

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Yeah, I was thinking about this.
I am not either. 

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I I was. 
Like you were thinking about me 

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not being a NATO. 
No, I was thinking I'm not 

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really a NATO person because it 
adds a lot of bulk to the watch.

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I wonder if this? 
I mean, it adds. 

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Oh yes. 
Yes, I wonder if this is 

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something where as I don't I'm 
thinking about like is this a 

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small wrist problem? 
It probably you know, because 

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when I wear on a NATO strap, you
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You can, I have cut off the 
extra piece which a lot of 

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people do and then you have a 
single pass. 

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But the thing about a typical 
NATO and OK, I know NATO strap, 

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the the the terminology is used 
for many things and I'm not 

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going to get into what is 
actually a NATO strap and what 

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is just a single pass and what. 
Are all these? 

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Well, but I don't know that I've
I've gotten to the bottom of it 

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yet. 
So I I can't formulate like a, a

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true opinion on this one, but I 
know that there's a lot of 

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divided opinions on what a NATO 
strap is and the origins and why

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it would be called a NATO 
anyway. 

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So single pass straps, right? 
So it's like a NATO, but it just

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goes around once. 
What I don't like about the 

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typical NATO and certain single 
pass straps is that on the the 

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the side that has the holes in 
it, right? 

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So the long side that comes up, 
usually you have to fold it over

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and then you end up with one 
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side. 
And I do not like that 

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imbalance. 
That's interesting. 

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I kinda like the fold over. 
I don't like a NATO, but the 

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fold over I think is a little 
fun. 

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I don't like it to be under the 
watch. 

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OK, I don't know. 
I think there's. 

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Extra material under the watch. 
You don't like extra material 

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above the watch? 
Yeah, like when you're looking 

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down on your. 
Wrist, it doesn't bother. 

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That doesn't bother you? 
But I mean, it's usually towards

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the back OK of my hand and then 
I feel like it's a little cool. 

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Well, the other. 
Option. 

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I'm seeing this as someone who's
probably done that once. 

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Yeah, I've, I've only ever seen 
you use NATO once, and that was 

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when you bought your Seiko 5, 
the rowing blazer collab. 

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It came on a NATO. 
You use it for a little while 

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and then you said, hey, can you 
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me? 
Yeah, that's true. 

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Yeah, 'cause you didn't like the
NATO. 

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No, I'm not a NATO. 
No, you're not. 

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So I don't know what this story 
is about you liking them, but 

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but we both really like another 
type of nylon strap, which is 

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it's a two piece where it's just
like kind of like a leather 

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strap. 
It's just a regular two piece 

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strap with a buckle on it. 
And Nomos has those OEM on their

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watches. 
Our new Tengente 38 dates came 

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with them on them and those are 
super comfortable and easy and 

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really nice. 
Yeah, Hoy had that too. 

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That's one of my first nylon 
straps and I really like it. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
And your NATO was another nylon 

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strap. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah, but I didn't wear it that 
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So I was saying. 
Your first one that you actually

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wore. 
Yeah, the the Super Sardine I've

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been wearing for weeks since I 
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weeks. 
And I really do like the nylon 

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strap. 
I think it's super cool and it 

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definitely gives a summer vibe. 
For sure nylon when I wore it on

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my ahoy for years and I would go
swimming with that watch a lot. 

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What I liked is that it tried 
really fast. 

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It's just like really easy. 
You didn't have to think about 

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going in the water with that. 
I can't swim too far with my 

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super sardine though, no. 
That one's only 30 meters. 

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What does it mean 30 meters? 
We're not getting into that 

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today, but and then the last 
category we want to talk about, 

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which is the exciting category, 
especially for me this year. 

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Summary. 
It very summary in my mind. 

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It's very summary. 
All that you could wear it year 

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round, of course, rubber straps,
yes. 

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OK, so we were recently given 
some amazing rubber straps by 

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our good friends at Deluxe and I
would say for me it's been a bit

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of a game changer. 
Like truly changed how I think 

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about rubber straps. 
OK. 

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What did you think about what's 
the before and after? 

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Before was I didn't like them. 
That's true, actually. 

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Four or five of them over the 
years, you know, over the, I 

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don't know, 10-12 years, like I 
guess every once in a while 

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would be like, I'm getting that.
They always come and go. 

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Pretty quick, never really liked
them and there's a few different

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reasons that I didn't like them.
One was I most rubber straps out

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there that I've found that I 
liked something about them like 

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either the color or the the 
style or the buckle that came 

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with whatever they would be too 
long for me I don't like. 

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Straps that wrap. 
Too long around and for some 

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reason with rubber straps, most 
of the makers that I've seen do 

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not offer multiple sizes. 
Yeah, just like. 

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This strap will fit anyone from 
5 to 8 inches and I'm like not 

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really. 
Like yes, you can buckle it, but

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that doesn't make it nice. 
No, as soon as I see that 

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little. 
That little watch strap tongue 

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coming out to the other. 
Side I don't like I really. 

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Don't like it, it makes me upset
right away. 

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Yeah, I, I, I didn't like it. 
So then like because of that 

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sizing issue, I've cut multiple 
down, not just rubber straps, 

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but even I've done that with 
leather straps. 

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Like for years I was like, 
straps are just too long and I'd

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cut the end off and sometimes it
would work and sometimes it 

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wasn't. 
But then in 2020, I was I had 

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just bought my Grand Seiko SPG 
GM 221, and I really wanted a 

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nice strap for it. 
But I'm like, I'm not gonna do 

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what I've done so many times and
buy a strap. 

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That's too. 
Long because it feels like a 

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bummer to like get something new
and then you kind of like 

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immediately destroy part of it 
I. 

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Have to cut it or or it's just 
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which is how I wore it for years
and so the first straps that I 

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found that will also came in a 
short size that were like a 

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style and leather that I liked 
were deluxe in 2020. 

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And so I found them, I ordered 
them, I bought them and I loved 

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those straps like they were 
awesome. 

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Didn't have to cut them and and 
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that was 19mm and I only have so
many 19mm watch now that I don't

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have that Grand Seiko anymore. 
Now they live on my King Seiko, 

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which is also. 
Yeah, that's true. 

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It looks really good on. 
The great. 

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So like, it's nice to have that 
small size. 

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But anyway, so getting the right
size strap like changed how I 

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thought about straps and I 
didn't have to cut them anymore.

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Which is then kind of funny 
about these new rubber straps 

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because they are called CTS 
straps, which is cut to size. 

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So you do cut them. 
Yeah, you're supposed to. 

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It's different. 
We talked about them when they 

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did a big launch with all of 
these cut to size because they 

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actually made them specifically 
for. 

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Yeah, integrated. 
Integrated, and that's what I 

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like on my BB54. 
It looks really cool yeah yeah. 

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And since it's fit to the BB 54 
and not like the rubber strap 

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that Tutor makes, which actually
you use the end links of the 54,

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I have three different versions 
of my 54 now, which I really 

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like. 
I think it gives it a. 

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Four, because you have two 
colors of the deluxe. 

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I do, I do, but I I felt like 
three different versions. 

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 
That. 

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That makes it even more 
versatile than it already was 

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because it's kind of a different
look for each one. 

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And I, I I have now the 
integrated rubber strap for the 

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BB58. 
It's in Gray. 

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It looks awesome. 
I love it. 

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And then just a straight black 
strap for the Nomos Tengente 

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Sport, the limited edition Japan
one that I have. 

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Yeah, that looks really nice. 
It gives it a sleek cool. 

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It's already a cool watch, but I
I do really like that pairing. 

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And then I put a white one on my
pink Tudor Black Bay chrono. 

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I think that's actually the 
coolest pairing. 

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That is the most summer. 
Pairing and weirdly the most unu

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pairing which I think that's why
I like it so much because you 

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like never wear white. 
No, I really really, really, 

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really don't like even. 
Your shoes aren't like nothings 

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white. 
Actually, no, no, I've always 

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felt like it's too easy to get 
dirty. 

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Yeah. 
So I I just avoid white. 

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But OK, so why do I like rubber 
straps? 

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Like, I like the fact that 
number one. 

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OK, so rubber itself, it's like 
it, you know, similar to a 

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bracelet, like it doesn't absorb
water. 

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That's why I think it it has a 
little bit of benefit over a 

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nylon strap because if you're 
really sweaty, then in a nylon 

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strap, it just kind of stays wet
all day. 

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With a rubber strap, you can 
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dry now. 
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which is also why I like 
bracelets. 

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So it's like more similar to a 
bracelet in that way. 

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But unlike a bracelet, it 
requires different level of 

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adjustment. 
And here's where I differ from 

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what I usually say about quick 
adjust. 

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I've learned something about 
these rubber straps and it's 

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gotten me very excited. 
OK, so at first I was a little 

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worried about these because the 
deploying clasp, the cool spring

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loaded deploying clasp that I I 
love to just Oh no, don't get me

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started. 
Yeah, I really do like to clip 

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them. 
They're super fun to play with, 

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but they don't have an on the 
fly quick adjust. 

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They do have micro adjust so you
can size them right, but they 

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don't have on the fly. 
So I was a little bit worried 

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about that. 
But here's how I changed my 

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mind. 
The reason I want a quick adjust

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is because I like for my watches
to be tight enough on my wrist 

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that they don't move around, 
right? 

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So that's the key. 
I like mine to kind of spin 

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around. 
They don't. 

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Spin all the. 
Way I just never know where they

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might end up. 
It's why it's funny because when

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you wear the Royal Oak, which 
does not have any form of quick 

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adjustment, it's always laying 
like in this one weird side spot

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and just branding you because 
the back has the relief of Royal

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Oak. 
On yeah. 

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And so then it says royal look 
on my wrist all the time in the 

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second spot. 
In a very weird place. 

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But anyway, so that's my key is 
I don't want it to move. 

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So that's why I have it tight. 
But that means when my wrist 

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expands, then it's uncomfortably
tight on a bracelet. 

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So that's why I want quick 
adjust so that when my wrist 

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expands, I can let out a little 
bit and then it still fits in 

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that same way where it's tight 
enough to not move, but not so 

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tight that it's uncomfortable. 
So that's how I realized like 

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why so many people don't care 
about quick adjust because they 

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wear their watches the way you 
wear your Royal Oak where it's a

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little bit loose and that 
doesn't bother them. 

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And that's fine. 
Like actually that's awesome. 

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It just makes more things can be
comfortable. 

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If you don't care about that, I 
think it's flopping around like 

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a dead fish. 
But you know, whatever. 

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It turns out these rubber straps
don't have that problem and they

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just feel comfortable. 
And I think part of it is 

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because the rubber makes them 
less likely to move around, even

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if they're not as tight as I 
typically would wear a bracelet.

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So they kind of keep their 
position because of the friction

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with the rubber. 
Right. 

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But also, rubber has a little 
stretch to it, so I've found 

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that it doesn't. 
Like I can keep it a little 

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tighter and then even if my 
wrist expands, it doesn't feel, 

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yeah, uncomfortable. 
No, they definitely have 

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stretching them but also the 
deploying class because it's 

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magnetic. 
Sorry, it's not magnetic. 

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I was like that is not true. 
It is spring loaded, but it 

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feels like magnets. 
So because it's spring loaded 

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like unlike a a typical 
deployment clasp where it like 

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clips in this has a little bit 
of gift. 

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So it's just never 
uncomfortable. 

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So I actually OK it reminds me 
of those old bracelets that had 

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stretchy links in them. 
So like with those, I didn't 

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need a quick adjust either. 
Like one of those, like elastic 

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bracelets? 
Like a friendship bracelet. 

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Yeah, but there's nicer versions
of that that are actually metal 

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bracelets, but they have a few 
stretchy links. 

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No, I have seen that in 
different Zodiac has that it's a

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really nice. 
So then those like they they're 

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still always comfortable. 
You don't need the quick adjust 

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because it's giving you that 
relief when your wrist expands 

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Yeah. 
So that's yeah. 

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So I, I really like but I, I 
love these displaying clasp. 

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I, I think that when I go to 
grab a watch sometimes now, the 

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level of laziness I sometimes 
feel makes the deploy, the the 

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spring loaded deployment clasp 
like attractive 'cause I know I 

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don't have to like put a pin 
through the buck. 

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Nothing. 
I just put it on and go snap 

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snap. 
Like that's the level of lazy 

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I've been some, it's just 
sometimes. 

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It's the summer. 
Summer laziness sometimes. 

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You know, it's summer. 
It is what it is. 

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And I just want something that I
can just quickly throw on the 

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wrist. 
And they are very fidgetable. 

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Yeah, so. 
Fidgetable. 

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Fidgetable. 
Is that not? 

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A word but. 
I like to snap them. 

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I snapped them all day and Lydia
is like okay, stop. 

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Yeah, all, all day, nonstop. 
I'm super curious to know what 

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all of your favorite summer 
strap options are. 

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I I'm going to say mine is going
to be nylon or rubber this 

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summer. 
Nylon or rubber? 

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I don't know that's. 
That's not even a choice. 

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Bye bye.