Watch straps and buckles (each pin and folding) are the almost perfect approach to suit your watch to your wrist, however they’ve two inherent drawbacks.
1. The usual holes within the strap are 8 mm aside, so except you’re very fortunate it’s important to choose a gap that both makes the strap too tight or too unfastened. Too tight is uncomfortable and too unfastened has the watch tending to roll across the wrist.
2. Even if you’re fortunate sufficient to discover a gap on the strap that matches completely on in the future, wrists have a tendency to alter measurement with each the climate and fluctuating weight.
Roland Iten, the grasp of mechanical luxurious for gents, has developed adjustable buckles that in several codecs have been utilized by prestigious manufacturers together with F.P. Journe and Greubel Forsey.
And now he has developed an simply adjustable watch strap for collectors.

Roland Iten RWC09 adjustable buckle
Roland Iten RWC09 adjustable buckle
When creating any of his mechanical luxuries, Roland Iten locations a excessive precedence on offering a robust tactile sensation. The operation has to really feel good, and this patented adjustable strap buckle is not any exception. While you rotate the adjustment disk to tighten or loosen the strap, you’ll be able to really feel it reassuringly click on, click on, click on because it strikes from one micro-adjustment to the following.

Roland Iten RWC09 adjustable buckle
It’s not a toy, but it surely does really feel good to play with!
And you’ll regulate simply with out eradicating your watch and even opening the clasp or buckle.
Whereas the holes in your watch strap offer you adjustment increments of 8 mm, the Roland Iten buckle supplies infinite nice tuning between these 8 mm holes. And it’s simply adjustable on the wrist all through the day.

Exploded diagram of the Roland Iten RWC09 adjustable buckle
Rotating the large adjustment disk turns a small cog that strikes a rack contained in the buckle that slides to regulate the strap. The rack locks in place in any place because the rotation of the small-diameter cog can’t overcome the friction of turning the bigger adjustment disk. It’s easy and dependable.
A small spring-loaded pin slides round contained in the adjustment wheel and satisfyingly clicks into tiny holes on the disk because it’s rotated. This pin isn’t obligatory for the operation of the adjustable buckle, but it surely’s important in offering the tactile suggestions that makes adjusting the buckle really feel so pleasurable.
The usual distance between holes in a watch strap is 8 mm; the Roland Iten adjustable buckle has a micro-adjustment vary of 9 mm so it comfortably supplies the total vary between every gap.

Roland Iten RWC09 adjustable buckle
Constructed-in fail-safe safety
The strap can solely be fitted and faraway from the adjustable buckle when the adjustment disk is within the totally tight place. This ensures that there isn’t any danger of the strap ever falling off if the buckle is knocked.
Lubrication free
Crafted in titanium and metal, the adjustable watch strap buckle has been designed, like all of Roland Iten’s merchandise, to be lubrication free. Tolerances are designed in order that any mud merely falls out. I can attest to this from private expertise, having worn a Roland Iten belt buckle every day for almost 20 years in all conditions and environments. It really works and feels pretty much as good as the primary day I put it on.

Roland Iten RWC09 adjustable buckle
Appropriate for each pin buckles and folding buckles, two sizes of strap widths
The Roland Iten Adjustable Buckle can simply be fitted to look at straps with each pin buckles and folding buckles. The tang on the pin or folding buckle is held by a detachable spring bar, identical to the one holding the strap to the lugs, which could be eliminated and reinserted to carry the adjustable buckle. You possibly can both do it your self when you have modified your personal straps or in minutes at your native watch/jewellery retailer.
The adjustable buckle is available in two sizes: one for straps of 16-18 mm width (widest width on the holes, not between the lugs) and straps of 18-20 mm width.
This adjustable buckle is good for bigger watches on smaller wrists as these are inclined to roll across the wrist.

Roland Iten RWC09 adjustable buckle
Customizable on request
And if you’d like one thing extra-special or distinctive, you’ll be able to ask Roland Iten to customise the adjustment disk.
Better of all, although, is the worth
And better of all, this adjustable watch strap buckle is a uncommon Roland Iten product in that it’s each very helpful and comparatively reasonably priced. At 1,490 Swiss francs it’s certainly not low-cost, however the high quality is superb. And high quality prices.
For extra info or to order, please contact [email protected] or go to www.rolanditen.com.
Fast Details Roland Iten RWC09 Adjustable Watch Strap Buckle
Diameter: 25 mm
Weight: 15 grams
Mechanism: patented RWC09 adjustment buckle
Supplies: titanium and metal
Complexity: 16 elements
Measurement of strap: two choices 16-18 mm or 18-20 mm strap width, most strap thickness at shortest gap 2.5 mm for pin buckles, 3 mm for folding buckles.
Value: 1,490 Swiss francs (excluding transport and taxes if relevant)
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