Cheapest source for NATO bands?

[Knisse]

If anyone has bought from one of these places when please list the place and a picture (on your hand) i would very much like to see how it looks like on a wrist.

 

[otc]

If the guy on ebay is selling maratac (and not some generic band), go for it.

If not, just go with broadarrow. I have the "bond" strap and it is quite nice--although with j-crew selling the $150 timex...it is getting more and more common (although it is nice to know that I didn't pay $150 for a timex on a crappy band)

 

[dfagdfsh]

yea it's dissapointing. it seems everytime i like a brand/concept a year later j crew picks up and the price skyrockets - quoddy, NATO bands, seavees, etc

 

[otc]

Originally Posted by Teger

yea it's dissapointing. it seems everytime i like a brand/concept a year later j crew picks up and the price skyrockets - quoddy, NATO bands, seavees, etc

Well, in this case, you can still pick up a similar style timex at target for $20 on a good day and grab a far higher quality nato band for another $20 and save yourself $110 in jcrew markups

 

[blynch]

+1 on the maratac, high quality band been using for over a year, got mine from broadarrow but the ebay link looks a little cheaper.

 

[zinman74]

+ 1 on Maratac from broadarrow.net
also Timefactors.
There are some reputable sellers on the timezone.com forum as well that sell the "new bond" version as well.

 

[arkangel]

Try ecrater.com, search for nato straps. anywhere from $13-17. nice material and great designs

 

[jaac]

Anyone have any recs on where i can get the little machine thing to swap out bands?

 

[asdf]

Originally Posted by jaac

Anyone have any recs on where i can get the little machine thing to swap out bands?

If you have spring-loaded pins all you need is a tiny flathead screwdriver. If you have those split-pins then, yeah, you need the special tool i think. Once you have a NATO strap on you can switch from NATO to NATO without pulling the pins though.