Bad experience with AP Bands

[b00tyme]

My neutral stand is .....

(1) I can understand the frustrations Bootyme faced, sure he does not want this issue to escalate to this extent. I'm sure he is genuinely facing the problem of fitting the APband strap to his watch. Thus he is struggling to try fitting it to no avail and thus damaged it, is a genuine mistake but still think he shd be entittled to a replacement strap to rest case. .

(2) I can vote at the same time for APband straps quality as i had before one. I got a fren who ordered on my behalf. Mine is a bracelet and need conversion kit together with the strap. With years of dismantling, removing bracelets links, i can say is a real hard task to install the strap to my AP, not that APband strap is bad but true fact is the design of the AP watches with the FORK END to mate lug and strap, the pin must also be exactly to join all 3 parts (lugs,strap, pin). The tolerence for all 3 is near zero play so you can guess how tough this task is....Not the usual Panerai or IWC design which is straight forward.
After much try i finally got it in, fits perfectly.

In fact even an original oem strap from AP cause me sweats to put in on too.
So no one is to be blame here, is the design.

Just look at these pictures of the fork ends ?

I agree with the design part, the strap changing procedure is really troublesome. However after giving up on trying to fit the ap bands strap, i fitted back my oem ap rubber strap easily in one try.

[watchpassionist]

I agree with the design part, the strap changing procedure is really troublesome. However after giving up on trying to fit the ap bands strap, i fitted back my oem ap rubber strap easily in one try.

Is because the oem strap was removed from the watch and thus the holes are seasoned enabling it to be fitted back easily, as for new oem strap similar problem will be encounter so be careful if you gonna do it yourself, it ain't cheap...hehehe....