Trying to find a watch for a particular strap, could use help

[jdkno]

I ordered a strap for my B&R 02, it is nylon custom made and has orange stitching. The maker knew the watch has 26mm lugs but the webbing used was 25mm. He told me that if you play with it enough the webbing will stretch out but I have done everything I can think of and it will not stretch out enough so now there are gaps that you can see the spring bars through and it bothers me so much I don't even wear the strap anymore.

I would like to find something with a 24mm lug width, I really would like a Bell & Ross as this strap has a particular aviation theme to it but I have no idea which of the square ones even come close to looking like gen and I don't want to dump $600 on the aviation.

I like the PVD ones with the orange numbers on the dial as the strap has orange stitching but looking at the B&R site these seem to be fantasy versions with no gen counterpart.

Any suggestions, or anyone know where I can get black spring bars??

[Gr00v3]

You could try to fit small black rubber washers to fill out the gap. Just a thought

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