THANK YOU for saving me a lot of grief and aggravation. I have the exact watch on your video and lost the collars. After a few hours searching my workspace and crawling on the floor, I found them, followed your clear instructions and my day was complete. Great video, thanks again.

2024 and your video is still the best. I was able to correct the errors I made in resizing a Citizen Series 8 GMT. It fell off my wrist in a restaurant. I was lucky not to have lost it. Your video helped me correctly do the job because you explained and demonstrated exactly how the pin and collar system works . Once I understood it I was able to fix my errors with confidence. Thank you for your excellent work in making the video. I subscribed and look forward to learning more from you.

This is the best instructional video about bracelet sizing on KZfaq.

Great video, I have watched many videos on this subject and none of them had a clue what they're doing, you on the other hand know exactly how it's supposed to be done. Thanks

I just got my very first mechanical watch. I took it to a watch repair shop to get it resized. Then I went to my friend's home and as I was showing to him, the pin slipped out. I was like WHAT. Much like you, I had no idea there was a collar involved. I picked up the pin and slid it back in. I sort of felt some friction, so I assumed the pin was friction fit by itself. Then it slipped out again when I got home. I googled my problem and eventually came around to your video. Thank goodness I had a loose collar with spare links I got from the shop when he removed them. I have no idea if maybe the shop forgot to put the collar, or the collar was there but I didn't see it fall out. In any case, I'm kind of glad it happened because I got to learn something about my watch I probably would never have learned about. Your video truly saved me.

Brilliant video. I worked out years ago how to do this only by trial and error, cause there never was a comprehensive video out there how to do it. I still kept looking if someone would make a video like this, and you've done it. Great stuff, I suspect you will get lots of thanks for this!

Perfect. I just bought a sarb033 and this is exactly what I needed. Thanks.

The most secure bracelet system

An "old" video, but still helped me a lot in 2021. Thank you!

just want to come back to this video and thank you. your video explains the pin and collar system the best compare to other KZfaq videos and as someone said in another comment you actually do it the right way and some videos teach the wrong ways

Excellent tutorial! Helped a bunch, I was panicking , you made it easy! Thx

Thank God for you and your video!!! Makes an impossible job, easy. Thanks alot. I saw another one first, it was rubbish and he got it all wrong. This man is the business!

Fantastic tutorial. I was struggling with this on my new spring drive diver even after watching a different video - after watching this one I resized two links and it took me about 5 minutes. Thank you!

Hi another great video. My Sarb033 arrives tomorrow and I just wanted to remind myself how this dreaded pin and collar system works. I also made a mess the first few times I tried it! You are fast becoming one of my favourite go to for advice on these things. Keep up the good work.

Thank you so much for this great vid! It enabled me to resize the bracelet on my SARB035 with confidence

Excellent video, very well done and I'm sure we all appreciate the way in which it was presented so that we don't make mistakes that could possibly cause us to lose our watches.

Super great video and very precise on how to do it. I can't thank you enough for making this video. It is late here and i was losing my mind on how to put the collar and links back together before watching your video and now i feel like i'm an expert doing this collar resizing. I really appreciate you taking the time to make this video.

Thanks for the video, it made resizing my SARB033 a lot easier.

very helpful. worked perfectly when I did mine

Thank you very much for posting this. I have yet to own a Seiko with the infamous pin and collar bracelet, but I hope to pick up a SARB sometime next year. Your video has provided the best explanation of how to adjust this bracelet that I've found anywhere.

Brilliant video- thanks a lot really helped me out. Keep up the fantastic work 👍🏽

Thanks, Guy! Very helpful video from a good natured fellow.

Awesome detailed and explanatory video on sizing a Seiko bracelet. I’ve sized two pin and collar bracelets. One on s Seiko Sumo and one on my Orient Mforce Bravo. It’s really not bad at all .

Thanks for this, such a comprehensive video!

Helpful video. I've resized many watches and my new Seiko has this pin and collar which I've never seen before.

Excelent! Thank you for a most informative video!

Wow this is an amazing tutorial. Thanks for going to the trouble of making this for us!

Thank you so much. I just picked up a BNIB Dawn Grey Turtle, and couldn't"t figure out where the collars went. Now I know. Arrow side, in middle section of link. After that, it was simple. Like another viewer suggested, I used one of the pin pusher tools, slid the collar on it, then used it to guide it into the correct hole. Much easier, than trying to use tweezers.

Good info. Just bought a new Seiko and realized the band did not adjust like others I have had over 50 years.

Great advise Guy! cannot imagine seizing the bracelet while trying to keep it in frame. I purchased for Christmas a Seiko 5 SKN357, Beautiful blue dial with the 5 logo pattern, not so much for the bracelet and its links system: total nightmare rezising it and when did the bracelet would just pinch me grabbing my skin hair all the time. I purchased a Hirsch brown leather strap and besides solving my hair pinching problem, it takes your eyes to the whole dial making it outstand and look just amazing! Keep the great content coming!

Awesome video, thank you for inspiration and encouragement. Adjusting my bracelet was a breeze. :)

Good explanation with all concerns and thanks for your sharing.

Excellent instructional video. Thank you!

Great video!! What I usually do is I guide the collar on to the small punch tool and then take the tool with the collar and just guide it into the hole. I used the tweezers at fist but I kept springing collars across the room. The punch tool works best for me.

Thanks got one of these in the post and didn't know about the pin and coller system and would of been pulling my hair out trying to figure it out

This helped me out! Thanks brother!

You video it is really helpful! Thank you a lot for that, it helped me to resize my sarb033 and the Sarb035 of the wife. Well done!

Thanks you sir , i understand now , how to resizing my seiko bracelet 👍🏻

great video .. i see that you help a lot your subscribers by answering their questions in the comments ....im sure that one day you will become a great youtube channel ...you helped me a lot by reading in another comment that you said that you have a 7" wrist and it looks as if it fits great on yours ...im have been wanting to buy one for so long but i was afraid of how it was going to fit my 6.5" wrist thinking that it was gonna be to small but know i feel convinced ...thanks a lot for the help. Best Regards, Alex.

Great video but … After watching your video I wrongly assumed that my SSC560 was a "pin & collar" type bracelet but come to find out, it isn't. It's just a "pin" bracelet. Nothing in the owner's manual gave me a clue so I was glad to find your video. I had to order the pin removal set - long story but it took 19 days to come from China no less! I followed your instructions up to the point of looking for the collar only to discover that there wasn't one. Thought I had lost it (like you warned against) but upon removing the second pin, no collar there either. So, upon reassembly, pushing on the pin against the plastic block as you suggested resulted in the pin just "popping" back into place. So I examined the other pin that I had removed and eureka, the pin has a wider end and a smaller end. So, I guess the collar is kinda built-in to the link. Anyway, looks like Seiko simplified the whole process on some models. Thanks again. I would have had to take it to a watch smith otherwise. I enjoyed doing it myself. Oh yea, upon reassembly, put the small end of the pin into the link first (from the opposite direction of removal - as you indicated).

Perfect video! I saved myself $8 and gained a life skill haha

Very good informative video. Thanks.

This is the best video I found, thank you very much.

Wow, you just saved my a$$. I just got the SARY057 Presage (It's fucking beautiful!). I lost the 3 micro-bushings after knocking out three links for resizing and AMAZINGLY found them on my carpet and on the sofa where I was working.. all three! I wasn't sure I wouldn't going insane for not being able to put this back together, after a few duh, no friction pin falling out moments ;) Then I found you....

Very instructive. Thanks a lot.

Great explanation

Great tutorial. appreciate it!

Great vid!! I’ve also noticed that some of the bracelets have pins with a distinct head & a narrow rounded tip for the collar side. Driving in the wrong side of the pin will also damage the collar.

Excellent informative video. Many thanks Buddy.

Superb video , made it look less daunting

This has been a very helpful video, thanks very much for making it. You have made it look a simple process, but for elderly eyes I suspect it may be more problematic!

Glad I watched your video.👍🏻

That is very helpful. Thank you.

Im happy to find your video and i resized my spb077J1, thank you. :)

it works man thanks

Thank you. I had no idea about a collar and pin link. I just ran into a dual pin band. Interesting to say the least.

Great video! As you said I used the smallest punch to take out the pin and collar from the link but I noticed that the collar was stuck even though I used the smallest punch. What should I do to take it out?

Very useful as those pins and collars are confusing for the first time bracelet adjustment.

Thank you

I watched many videos too and everybody goes wrong. You are the only one doing it the right way, thanks for that ! Now I'm sure I have done it the right way ! But why Seiko do that ? Screw pin are more practical and have the same efficiency, don't they ?

Great video👌✌️👍

Any advise for working on the wider links that flank the watch face? I broke a pin and am trying to replace it with a spare but its just not going in like the other links...

Great vid. Helped me a LOT. Thanks. Only Seiko would make such a bloody complicated system! What was wrong with the usual split pin system? Just pushes in or out. Simple! Or the pins that just screw in or out!

Is it the same way you size a jubilee pin@collar bracelet, that's what I'm up against now.

Great video. Pin and collar, Friction (cotter)? Threaded. Are those the only 3 style of link pins?

I wish I had found this video before I started taking apart my bracelet. I was watching other videos, apparently seiko makes a couple of different styles with pin and colour. The other style has the colour sitting in the outer portion, and I could not understand why the collar was not fitting. I know you said you bent the pin, but what I believe is that in this particular style you punch out and re-insert the pin in the same direction of the arrow. You should do this because that sets the colour correctly into its position. If you reverse that then you are essentially trying to push the collar into the other portion of the link, which is wrong.

Where do you get different diameters push pins? The ones that come in the watch repair sets seem to be the same size.

G'Job, kid!

Thanks i use this information a Loot

I’ve lost a collar - does anyone know where to find a replacement?

Any recommendations on obtaining extra pins and collars?

Just got the watch. Does the winding mechanism make noise when you move this wrist? Mine send a bit loud

What is the largest wrist size that the SARB033 can fit?

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but the holes on either side of the central part of the link seem to be the same size. I can't get the collar to go back in. It's an SRPA21....are all Seiko collar/pin bracelets of the same design?

I'm dealing with what seems to be a totally different pin and collar bracelet from Deep blue (master 1000 with jubilee). It seems to be a straight pin through a collar placed in one of the center links (not the one in the center of the 5 links but on one side (number 2 or 4 not sure), It's murder to get the pins out and I'm not quite sure on how to get the links back connected. I doubt even a watchmaker would know. NO videos I can find for these weird bracelets either. There are some WatchUSeek posts though that are years old. So they are pin and collar but not THIS kind of pin and collar.

I need to take out 3 links . Do I do 2 on one side ? One on the other ?

Originally, the collars are on the outside of the bracelet, opposite the head of the pin. but when you put the collars in, you put them on the inside of the link, are you saying this is a better way of doing it, or have you put them on in the wrong place?

Don't use metal tweezers! Collars POP right out of them. Lost two collars as they flew across my desk. Only found one of them. Luckily, I was removing a link on each size of the clasp so I had room to lose one. Also, and this took me a LONG time to figure out..., but the collar drops into only one side of the "male" link. Watch 19:00 carefully. I was trying to put in from the outside of the "female" side.

4 minutes ago, I bought a replacement bracelet because I can't deal with removing the links. Last week, I removed the screw-in links on a Strapcode bracelet.. The whole job took 4 minutes.

20:25 literally two minutes before this part of the video, i bended the pin.

Some of those slots in the plastic block are narrower for a reason!!!

You never showed us how to take the link out from the clasp .

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! The biggest challenge was finding the slightly bigger hole where the collar goes.

awesome. Thank you for all the details tips and tricks. You are a lifesaver. I really hate this bracelet system compared to every other type... but at least your advice made it make more sense.

Don't bother, buy one with screws and a milled clasp

I can't find the hole. that's what she said. lol