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 Posted: Sun May 18th, 2008 12:40 pm
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 The NATO strap is the factory Hamilton NATO. I agree that it is basically a terrible strap. Too short, thin, flimsy, etc.

Right now I have factory metal bracelets for both, one factory rubber frogman strap, one strap with a deployant. I use a Watchadoo on the X-wind sometimes. I had a Watchadoo for the GMT but they made the lugs an incredibly stupid 21mm wide.

For the price, a lot of the factory leather straps are just junk imo. I bought the one leather one for the deployant. I want to make some kind of croc strap for it. But the deployant isn't the best and it is only 20mm wide and accepts only very thin straps so I am not sure what I am going to do with it.

The rubber strap is nice, but since it doesn't really fit the GMT, I will just steal its double tang buckle to make another strap.

For some reason the factory metal bracelet helps make the GMT seem bigger. I tried putting a 24mm black suede strap on it but the strap dwarfed the watch and made it look tiny.

So I am still exploring my options.