"J.B. Wood" wrote in message
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On 03/08/2013 05:34 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
My son had a Chinese watch with an unusal band. Normal watch bands have
a center portion the is held by a spring bar into "ears" sticking out of
the watch.

This one is an all plastic supposedly water proof one, where the band
fits
against the watch, and the connection is underneath.

The band has a small tounge which fits into relatively wide ears and is
held in place with a metal pin (no spring).

It's sort of like this:

plastic 3mm ear from watch 4mm tounge of band 10mm ear of watch
4mm
plastic 3mm

Or in a simpler drawing:

pppEEEEtttttttttEEEEppp

With the pin long enough that it is flush with the sides of the plastic.

I've seen them before on cheap Chinese watches, but I think I threw them
out
when the battery died.

I've looked all around eBay, and did a google, anyone have any idea where
I can buy a band like this? I'd go as far as buying a small assortment of
them.

TIA,

Geoff.


Hello, and I'll assume that you posted to this ng because you have an
"electronic" watch ;-) (even though your problem is mechanical)

All of your "drawings" are just a bunch of letters in my Thunderbird
e-mail client. A source (Picasa, Flickr, etc) for a photo(s) would be
more beneficial.

I did replace the resin band on an old Casio sport chronograph and getting
the two watchband attachment pins on the watch case removed was a bear. I
had to push them out with considerable effort. There are tools available
for this but I didn't possess any at the time. I used the more
conventional spring bars as replacements.

I would say from my own experience if this is a $10 watch don't bother

If he paid $10 for a cheap Chinese watch - they saw him coming a mile off.

I did recently pay 15 GBP for a watch, but it picks up a time coded radio
signal from the cesium clock at the National Physics Laboratory so its
always accurate to less than a second per year - and it has industry
standard strap pins.

Anything more than 2 GBP that didn't do all that, and I' do a rude hand
signal at the retailer and walk away.