Instead of purchasing a new Tissot watch, watch owners can replace their straps very easily and quickly, to express their personality, fit their look, suit the season or the occasion, or bring a whole new look to their Tissot watch.
About Tissot watch brand
Tissot is a luxury watch brand from Switzerland. Tissot was founded in 1853. Since 1983, Tissot has belonged to the Swiss conglomerate Swatch Group (Longines, Breguet, Blancpain, Omega). If you are looking for a luxury watch within your budget, Tissot can be a perfect choice as they offer the best quality and numerous models. Generally speaking, both men’s and women’s Tissot watches start under $1,000 for the quartz-powered models, and top out at several thousand for the more luxurious models with automatic mechanical movements, making them excellent options considering all the features and Swiss-made quality you get for that price.
Tissot watch leather strap replacement guideline
Since the beginning of 2021 Tissot has offered watches with interchangeable straps. Customers can change their straps very easily and quickly, to express their personality, fit their look, suit the season or the occasion, or bring a new look to their Tissot watch.
Without the assistance of a technician, you can change your Tissot watch leather strap yourself at home with these 6 easy steps:
In order to follow these instructions adequately, the following equipment is necessary:
– Replacement strap
– Spring bar tool
– Microfiber cloth or other soft pad
– Barrier such as a piece of paper or other wide, flat bottomed desktop object (optional, but recommended)
Step 1: Preparing the space
Remove the Tissot watch leather strap from your wrist and set the watch face-down on a clean microfiber cloth or other soft pad, with the strap pieces lying to the sides of the watch case.
Caution: Any dust or dirt on the cloth or soft pad will scratch the watch. Make sure the soft pad or cloth is clean.
Step 2: Removing the Strap
Removing the strap involves removing the spring bars, which releases the strap pieces from the watch case. The spring bar ends fit into small holes inside a pair of lugs on the watch case. A spring bar tool is a long, thin tool with a forked end which, by engaging and applying pressure to the flanges of the spring bar, compresses the spring bar so that it can be removed and installed.
Caution: Spring bars are spring loaded and may fly off the watch. Furthermore, due to their small size, they are easily misplaced.
With the strap unbuckled and the pieces lying to the left and right of the watch case, firmly grip the watch case with your non-dominant hand.
Holding the spring bar tool with your dominant hand like a pencil, position the fork end of the spring bar tool between one side of one of the strap pieces and the lug. Make sure that the fork end has purchase on the flanges of the spring bar end. Gently pry one end of the spring bar out of its lug hole and move it out from between the lugs. The strap piece will now be free from the watch case.
Pull the spring bar out through the hole in the end of the strap piece.
Step 3: Repeat Step 2 for the remaining strap piece
Rotate the watch 180 degrees so that the other strap piece is in the same orientation as the one before. Repeat step 2.
Step 4: Installing the new strap
Installing the new Tissot watch leather strap involves putting the spring bars into the replacement strap pieces and reinstalling the spring bars between the lugs. Since the spring bars expand when removed, they are wider than the width between the inside of the lugs. This step requires the spring bar to be compressed again in order to fit back between the lugs. The spring bar ends will then need to be placed into the small holes in the lugs to be completely installed. It is advisable to remember and visualize the lug hole’s position on the inside of the lugs because it will not be visible when installing the replacement strap. Generally, the short end of the strap with the buckle is attached to the 12 o’clock (top) side of the watch case, and the long end is attached to the 6 o’clock (bottom) side of the watch case. This positions the buckle in a comfortable spot on the wrist and makes putting on and taking off the watch easier. However, the strap ends can be placed according to user preference.
Caution: This step poses an increased risk of losing a spring bar because the spring bar tool may slip off of the spring bar as it is being compressed, or the spring bar may slip out from between the lugs during placement; both scenarios cause the spring bar to fly off. Make sure your spring bar barrier is in place.
Insert a spring bar into one of the replacement strap pieces. The spring bars ought to protrude equally from both sides of the strap.
With the spring bar inserted into the replacement strap piece, loosely insert one protruding end of the spring bar into one of the lug holes and rest the other protruding end of the spring bar on top of the opposite lug.
Using the spring bar tool, compress the spring bar and lower the end into the inside of the lug, aiming for the lug hole. If the spring bar does not snap into the lug hole, proceed to the next step.
If the spring bar does snap into the lug hole, skip the next step and go to Step 5. If the spring bar did not snap into the lug hole and did not fly off, it is pressed against the inside of the lug. Put down the spring bar and carefully move the strap around (which moves the spring bar with it) to try to “find” the lug hole. Listen for a click that signals that the spring bar end has snapped into the lug hole.
Step 5: Repeat Step 4 for the remaining strap piece
Rotate the watch 180 degrees so that the other strap piece will be in the same orientation during installation as the last one. Repeat step 4.
Step 6: Final clean
Finally, pick up the watch with the new Tissot watch leather strap and wipe away any smudges on the watch face with a microfiber cloth or other soft cloth.
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