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EBEL 1911 BTR197 Strap with Yellow stiches


Kazanti

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No ebay will just sell you gen. Price whether it is or not. Your best bet is to either call dealer for strap or buy complete watch.. I have tried to find with red stitch. Always the reply no spare parts are left in the replica world. I just bought complete for $258 from toro.

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Scratch that... Now thry are not available.. Called authorized ebel, quoted $390 for it.. Only 4 left in ebel warehouse . For what its worth.

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Ebel watches with screw on straps are a huge $$ problem when the strap wears out. I have two genuine steel and gold quartz Ebel Classic Wave watches with screw on straps and since both together are not worth as much as one new strap sells for, I ground the screw brackets off and drilled springbar dimples inside the lugs. After polishing between the lugs with Cratex they look like they came from the factory this way. Since I only paid about $40 each for the watches I did not mind modifying the cases. This is not an option on the BTR but is a viable option on cheap watches. You can also substitute a $65 Eta 256.031/2 for the $300 Ebel Classic Wave movement when they go dead...it is not a drop in but not too hard to do.

I also have a quartz steel and gold Ebel 1911 time and date watch with a dead movement (Cartier calibre 87) and it will soon be getting a substitute quartz Eta of some sort in place of the high $$ cal 87. I am not a 'Purist' when it comes to quartz watches. If they look the same on the outside, it does not matter to me what is on the inside.

The bottom line = I do not feel bad about modifying genuine quartz cheapos but a genuine BTR is another story. It is going to be expensive to buy a new genuine strap, no way around it. Otoh if the watch is a replica...there are no rules, anything goes.   :pimp:

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