19mm Nato Strap

If you are an owner of a watch with 19mm lug sizes, you’ll be well aware of the frustrating shortage of strap options for you.

While 19mm lug sizes are not as common as the 18mm, 20mm, 22mm. They are still used by watch brands like Grand Seiko, JLC and Zenith. 19mm lug sizes were quite common with vintage watches, notably the Seiko “Willard” 6105.

So in order to help the watch community we’ve produced our best selling nato strap in 19mm.

 

It’s a little lonely here with just one nato strap @ 19mm size don’t you think? Fear not, we’re starting off with our best seller to test the waters. We will be bring in a plain black signature series strap in 19mm in the future.

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Popular watches that suit out 19mm nato watch strap

Non-exhaustive list of watches that may benefit from our 19mm nato straps, by no means a complete list as we cannot cover every one.

• Seiko Prospex SLA025 & SBEX007 nato strap
• Seiko marinemaster prospex SLA017 nato strap
• Longines hydroconquest nato strap
• Seiko 6105 nato strap
• Omega Speedmaster moonwatch (original models) nato strap
• Omega Dynamic nato strap
• Tag Heur Carrera 39mm nato strap
• Seiko 6139 pogue nato strap
• Grand Seiko SBGR083 nato strap

Many vintage watches had 19mm lug widths due to imperial measurements used at the time, 19mm is 3/4 of an inch so it was a convenient value to use at the time.

Post metric standardisation, 19mm seems like an odd width to use. Many watch companies such as the ones above still use 19mm on 39mm watches because an 18mm strap seems too narrow by todays standards and 20mm would be disproportionally wide for a 39mm watch.