Watch/Bands for Dry Suit

[Mr Carcharodon]

Are there watches with extra long bands, or replacement bands that you like for diving? For warm water in a 3 mm wetsuit I use a Casio with a standard band and it is fine. But for cold water, where I am most of the year, a lot of real estate gets taken up by the dry glove cuff and computer so the best place for the watch would be mid forearm but then the standard bands are too short. Any ideas?

 

[Crush]

Loop the watch through a snap bolt? Sorry!

 

[MattJ]

Some wrist-mount computers include a band extension - basically a buckle end on a separate strap that's 3 or 4 inches long. You can use it to fit the wrist-mount computer around a thicker wetsuit or a drysuit.

 

[HenrikBP]

get the long Maratac strap from County Comm:

Maratac Nitrox Dry Suit Watch Band

No affiliation, just like the straps.

Henrik

 

[ScubaInChicago]

I prefer the Sea Dweller Rolex Glidlock system.....It's a ratcheting type band meant for quick adjustment over various diving exposure suits.....

It's also the official DIR backup watch:joke:

 

[rongoodman]

I just got the Maratec band and it looks good, although I haven't tried using it with dry gloves yet. It looks very similar to the band that comes with the Liquivision X1.

 

[jsf35]

The Maratec band looks pretty similar to the Waterborne straps from Australia. You can find those at a lot of shops or on-line. Those straps work even if one of the pins fail.

 

[StevenN]

get the long Maratac strap from County Comm:

Maratac Nitrox Dry Suit Watch Band

No affiliation, just like the straps.

Henrik

You can't go wrong with the Maratac bands, best watch accessory money can buy.