How do we adjust a too-large stainless steel watch band? (It's notobvious.)I bought, at CostCo, the Wenger Swiss Military 200m water proof watchfor my teen-age son's birthday for about 30 dollars (as he wants tolearn how to scuba dive in Monterey Bay).His thin wrist in no way fits this Wenger watch band, even wearing hiswetsuit, in so much as at least two links need to be removed from thestainless steel watch band, one on each side. Instructions suppliedwith the blister pack do not explain how to adjust the band (presumablyit's so simple that we should be able to figure it out by ourselvesusing a butter knife)???His new Wenger Swiss Military watch band has six links on each side,with two (I'll guess they're called) pins holding them together. Thethree lower links on each side each have a 2 mm arrow embossed into thecenter of the backside of the plates (for whatever reason, I don'tknow). My son suspects that arrow is telling us the direction in whichto remove the pins holding the links to the watch band.Further evidence these six links are the remove-me links are the factthat a pin of some sort can be seen on a side view of the Wenger watchband for these "arrowed" links only.Problem is - how do we remove those 'pins'? If we punch them out withan incredibly small punch (the pins seem to be about a half millimeterin diameter), won't we ruin them? I mean, what holds them in? Friction?If it's friction, won't we need new pins when we punch out the old ones(presumably stripping the heads)?The other thing is these arrows are not symetrical in that they areonly lined up with one of the two pins per link (that is, there is onlyone arrow per link and that arrow is under only one of the pins per thelink).Am I missing something fundamental here?What's the trick to removing and replacing two links in a steel watchband?

Yeah, I basically removed a couple of the links.Yeah, I had the same problem.Not really, but it isnt rocket science.Mine had fold over metal bits with each link.Sounds plausible.Some have a spring loaded inner pin at each end.Yes, Looks like there is a special tool that does it.

How to adjust steel linked watch band (Wenger Swiss Military waterproof)

Jun 17, 2005 Last reply: 4 years ago 107 Replies

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RAM^3 21 years ago

Bubububutt - then he'd have to get them out of his body cavities!

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Rod Speed 21 years ago

Frank Adam wrote

Pathetic, really.

Nope.

Pathetic, really.

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Frank Adam 21 years ago

Nah, i'll just call you Rod.

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Fraser Johnston 21 years ago

If he keeps going at this rate he eventually get some thumbs.

Fraser

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Rod Speed 21 years ago

Gunner wrote

Irrelevant.

Some collect buggy whips too.

Pathetic, really.

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Rod Speed 21 years ago

Irrelevant to dots in watches, stupid.

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zog 21 years ago

careful you are insulting 12 year olds :)

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Rhodri80 4 years ago

Its nasty to do. Probably in the top 2 bad designs I have tackled. Use a pin extractor to force out the pin. Then a needle nose plier to pull out the pin. The links then need to be bent inward to about 30 degrees so that the lugs on the male end line up with the gap in the female part of the next link. They are pretty stiff soI used a flat bladed blunt knife to ease them apart. I have a small watch tool kit and I think you will not get this apart without the right tools.

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