Love the look of vintage gold watches on NATOs, and this Polerouter homage from Watchdives fills that niche perfectly. 36mm, thin (due to VH31 quartz movement), enamel dial, top-hat mineral crystal. Entire setup was $100 shipped! ($95 watch, $5 NATO with gold hardware from AliExpress)
I have so many 20mm straps I decided to test some on my WD1863
In order:
1.Watchdives leather
2.Watchdives FKM cut-to-size
3.Haveston single-pass
4-5.San Martin double-pass
6.Watchdives double-pass
7-11.CNS Watch Bands single-pass
12-14.AliExpress elastic single-pass
15.Nivada Grenchen tropic rubber
3 in the roll and one on the wrist!
Militado ML01 (36mm) for a wedding
Tissot PRX (35mm) is my wife’s
Nivada Grenchen Chronoking for casual
San Martin SN0109 for a travel/pool watch
I’ve seen a few vintage gold Omegas and Polerouters on NATOs and loved the look. So I recreated it with the WD1954 gold and a NATO strap with gold hardware to match 👌🏼