cazalea
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The risk is an overstated one, esp considering the price of gold spring bars
I have serviced many precious metal watches that are of considerable age, and rarely are there damaged holes in the case.
There's not that much load on a spring bar in most cases, especially with dress watches.
A more likely scenario is the once-common use of a Spiedel Twist-O-Flex band with expanding ends to fit multiple lug spacing -- those do wear on the inside of the lugs.
I've seen plenty of wear like that but only one that needed to be fixed -- it was readily repaired with a spot of laser welding.
Cazalea
Springbars - I found a source!
So whenever getting a bespoke strap made by any of the strap makers as Camille Fournet or the OEM Jean Rousseau the answer to the request for quick release springbars is always no because they don’t have them, and when Rousseau makes the OEM straps (or yo...
Great info.
Thank You so much. It is highly appreciated! Could you please tell us about the tool used for curving the springbars? Thank you Cordially Christian
Cheap tool that I have in my shop.
Needs some extra hand bending as well as the tool cannot curve enough. Just be careful not to kink the tube and check the plungers are free to move. ...
Camille Fournet supplies straps with these springbars
They are the producer of Patek straps
Sorry but they certainly do not supply them.
Camille Fournet are a company I use regularly for my customers bespoke straps, and they’re making my own FPJ strap right now, and they told me they’re not able to supply them. They do supply standard straight QR springbars but not curved.
Thanks and a few questions
Thanks very much for this very useful information, much appreciated! A question, however: do you know of anyone who supplies these springbars in precious metals? I ask as I understand that you should match the springbar material with the case material, so...
The risk is an overstated one, esp considering the price of gold spring bars
I have serviced many precious metal watches that are of considerable age, and rarely are there damaged holes in the case. There's not that much load on a spring bar in most cases, especially with dress watches. A more likely scenario is the once-common us...
Great but have you tried it on your Journe watch?
JR does provide curved spring bar but they claim that they are not able to curve the spring bar the way Journe's does so it doesn't fit quite correctly on Journe's watches. That's what they told me when I was in their NYC store.
So my bespoke strap just arrived and my QR springbars fit perfectly
I help customers choose bespoke straps and fit them for a living and I was very confident that I had shaped the curve correctly that they’d fit just fine so I’m not sure why J Rousseau would even say that! My understanding is JR cannot supply the same typ...
Strap Change Question
I have a Chronometre Bleu without QR springs bars. I am in the process of ordering a smaller strap and am concerned about damaging the lugs while removing it. These straps are super flush with the lugs and seem like it would be hard to fit my spring bar t...
JR
The Jean Rousseau NYC boutique manager told me that FPJ supplies OEM QR curved spring bars but they are for FPJ boutique orders only - they are not available to the public. The NYC boutique has had no problem supplying me with (non-QR) springbars that fit...
Just reading all this now after some time…
What are people doing with this now? Who do you go to for a bespoke FPJ strap with quick release then? Trying to create something but info sounds all over place.
