Howard Riady bought a vintage watch with a worn strap in 2014. Three years later, he founded Veblenist, which specializes in unusual materials. By Rachel Felder In 2014, Howard Riady, who was a ...

Kunitaka Kojima of Tokyo has been creating straps by hand for almost 10 years. By Vivian Morelli TOKYO — Nineteen years ago, when he began working at a factory that made watch straps, Kunitaka Kojima ...

The days of the Garmin watches with bands you couldn’t remove are firmly a thing of the past. If you want to simply get a replacement band, or give your Garmin a smarter look, it’s much easier to do ...

Traditionally, there’s not been a whole lot of sexiness associated with rubber watch straps. Certain watch collectors and aficionados have been known to argue the finer points of vintage Tropic and ...

The only problem with the Apple Watch’s unprecedented ubiquity is that it results in us all wearing the same watch. So, the primary way to customize the look and feel is to pair it with a smart new ...

Sanuj is a tech enthusiast with a passion for exploring smartphones, tablets, and smart wearables. He started his tech journey with a Lumia smartphone, diving into Windows Phone. Later, he switched to ...

Heather is a commerce writer with Android Police. She has been a full-time writer since graduation from SAIT Polytechnic in 2018. She is an experienced article writer working for many brands over the ...

NATO straps are fun. They’re inexpensive. And they’re an easy way to add some color and uniqueness to a watch. Military in origin, they’re also wildly popular despite some quirky features that are not ...

Apple Watches are sturdy but not invincible, and they have been (occasionally) getting broken almost since the wearable first launched. But cheer up: if your Apple Watch has got scratched, cracked, ...

Are chest straps really that necessary any more? For many the answer is “less than ever” thanks to improved accuracy of watch HR tech, but the Garmin HRM 600 is here to prove there’s life in the HR ...