The Deployment or Deployant buckle is becoming very popular. Once they are fitted they cause significantly less abrasion and scuffing that is caused to your watch band by the pulling and tugging of it through a regular buckle, every time you put on or remove your watch.
Reasons To Use A Deployment Buckle
A high quality leather watch band that is fitted with a deployment clasp will retain it’s quality of newness for much longer than a watch that requires the band to be thread through a buckle every time it is put on or removed. These buckles are convenient to use, they are simple to fit and they are fully adjustable. These buckles can also be transferred from one compatible strap to another.
How To Change Your Buckle
If you decide you want to use a deployment buckle instead of the standard buckle, you will need to remove the buckle from the band and measure the width of the buckle, your deployment buckle needs to match this width. Different watch bands have different taper rates however most watch bands taper by approximately two millimeters at the buckle. This means a twenty millimeter watch strap will probably need an eighteen millimeter deployment buckle. If you’re not sure how to measure in order to get the right deployment buckle you may want to take your watch in with the band and original buckle still attached and have the watchmaker look at your watch and possibly install the new buckle for you.
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