If you want to know how to choose the best watch strap, you first need to look at your watch style itself. If it is a pure steel case or a black case, you can spice up your timepiece with truly any color you wish. If however, your timepiece uses some specific colors on the case, bezel, or the dial, you may want to choose a watch strap that carries or compliments those colors.
How to Choose the Best Watch Strap?
The Rolex Yachtmaster II is a great example of a timepiece that has specific colors. It has a beautiful blue bezel and touches of blue and red on the hands and in the dial. So, it makes only good sense to want to extend the color of the dial out to the watch band itself. Here we selected a blue band from Rubber B with a red stripe that goes down the edge. This band ties together the luxurious color of the Rolex Yachtmaster II straight through the band. It is a natural combination. In fact, most people looking at your timepiece might think the band was originally from Rolex. However, we will keep your secret.
Start With Choosing Your Style
Rubber B has developed so many styles that it can often feel excting when choosing a band for your timepiece. You can easily choose bands with multiple style options. First look at the clasp options that Rubber B straps have been developed for: the deployant buckle, the velcro closure, and the tang buckle.
Then you can look at how the band is attached to the timepiece itself. Rubber B has pioneered the Blocked Integration look. This is where the band is tightly attached to the watch case itself in a flawless OEM fashion. Each watch case from various watchmakers is different. So Rubber B has developed a custom band for many of these popular style timepieces.
Why is blocked integration different from a standard band? The blocked integration makes sure there are no gaps between the lug and the case itself. Often you can see skin or hair through these gaps. Fine timepiece owners know that the metal bands are built with blocked integration. So, why not demand the same from your aftermarket watch strap? Rubber B agreed with this philosophy and started to create custom straps for specific watches.
Rather than mass produce generic bands that fit standard lug widths, Rubber B first decided to create the ultimate band for the Rolex Submariner, the Panerai Luminor Submersible, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, and so on.
Rubber B has also created many different textures and even NATO Combat style bands to choose from.
The most important choice Rubber B has already made for you. Instead of choosing between multiple fabrics that can be easily destroyed, start to smell, or wear out after a few uses, Rubber B only makes vulcanized rubber watch bands. This alone means that every band you pick will last for many years, and can be used at work and at play, and be easily washed and keep looking like new.
Choose the Right Color for YOU
The black band is a classic and most of the timepieces Rubber B has designed bands for, come in a black band option. There are some exceptions, such as the Yachtmaster noted above. However, Rubber B has developed a whole lineup of colors.
If you don’t find the color you are looking for on the customized blocked integration models, Rubber B also has the iUnique series which allows you to choose up to 18 different colors. Here you can not only make changes in the band coloring, but you can also personalize the band and change the stitching.
If you want to know how to choose the best watch strap, you need to decide what is important to you. How do the different colors make you feel? What colors match your clothing styles and the typical places you will wear your timepiece?
The great thing with Rubber B bands is that you can easily change the look of your timepiece completely by changing your band color. It is easy and only takes a few minutes. And because the bands are high quality and relatively low cost compared to the watch itself, you can swap your band and have a new looking timepiece to wear and enjoy.
