I literally gave up on getting the bracelet off my watch for 3 months, watched this video...and the entire thing was off in 4 mins. Thank YOU.

Man, I owe you a beer. Struggling for an hour, I didn’t think of disengaging the bar on both sides first before trying to wrestle it out. Never had to do that with other bands. Thanks again, you made my afternoon

Excellent method! Removing the spring bar from the clasp allowed me to put the watch face down on a soft surface, which made it much easier to keep the watch stationary while disengaging both spring bars to remove the bracelet. Thanks for sharing the tip!

Best video on how to remove a spring-bar from a bracelet!

Very helpful to have such a clear video with calm, straightforward instructions. Many thanks!

That little trick of putting slight pressure on the end link totally made the difference. I was able to get a bracelet off that I've been trying to do for the past week. Thank you for the great hint. Btw, I never got frustrated or needed to step away, but I still had a couple of Whiskeys in celebration : )

Thank you for your video, I liked your advice about the shot of whiskey. It worked very nicely! Just what I needed.

Thanks for the video. I had a hard time getting my Longines HydroConquest auto bracelet off but your video give me the visual of exactly how each side pops out. I had no luck with the tweezers but was successful with a single pusher. I replaced it with the Longines blue padded leather strap w/deployment to reduce the overall weight.

Thanks a buch man... I almost ended up scratching every bit of the lug area before I found this video of yours. That push from the back tactic worked flawlessly. You're great.

Finally, a normal video on the subject! Thank you!

Been trying for hours to get my bracelet off my watch until I found this video. The tip of pushing on the end piece with my finger was the trick!

Thanks for the video. I was doing something similar, but only pushing one side while trying to disengage the other side of the spring bar. Got fed up and stopped. Ready to try again. Thanks again.

Thanks for a really helpful video. I’ve been struggling to remove the bracelet from an Oris BCPD for half an hour with no luck at all. I watched your video and got it out on the second try, which is a whole lot better than I’ve been doing.

THANK YOU. Saved me a ton of scratches and probably a dented spring bar tool.

really thanks for these good tricks. so helpful

Yes, THANKS!, for this calm -- and calming! -- tutorial. It's so good, and encouraging, to see you succeed with the removal in just one "take". Good for our mental health and confidence... . Granted, you bring considerable expertise to the task, and make it look easy. Thank you for sharing this. I'm removing -- trying to remove! -- the bracelet from a new watch, to swap-on a leather strap instead, which I find more comfortable. The tool I have is not the best, and I've had to modify it (narrow it by filing) to fit the opening in the bracelet to get a grip on the spring-bar ridge-rings (or whatever to call them). Here goes! (after watching your video again... ). Kudos!

This video is the best. I was struggling with my bracelet for 1 hour. Clicked the video and before you even started talking I was able to remove the bracelet! Thanks!

Worked like a charm -- took less than 10 minutes. Thx

I love your calm and helpful explanations👍🙏Right now i have wicked a duct tape around a spring bar at a wobbling end link …just for testing (your corresponding video doesn’t allow comments). Can you make a video how they are fixing the links “after” the end links like the San Martins/Rolex classics ? ( I can’t find anything about it). Greetings 👋

Made it super simple. Thank you!

Great video but I need to see you putting the damn solid end link back on! I don’t usually have a problem with watch bracelets but I really am struggling to put my solid end bracelet on. Please do a video, I cannot find one ? Cheers

Thank You. Very helpful

Quick release bracelet are the best. Pain in the butt changing bracelet the old fashion. Always end up scratching the watches

This was so helpful. Thank you!

I was struggling with my watch. You make it look like a cake walk 😆

Lifesaver video. I'm used to take bracelets off but had a very tricky small vintage TagH SEL that refused to come off, Don't have a spring bar tool that fit the tiny space this has by lugs but a safety pin worked once I used pressure of my finger as shown. Thank you. Will def see what other vids you have

Damn. Great tip. Worked like a charm. Thank you.

Very helpful!

It worked! Thanks for the demo

Great video. Thanks!

Thanks for the help!!

Thanks sir for the help. Got a bracelet off an put on a NATO strap.

Thanks for the help 👍

Yes! I’ve removed many spring bars from leather straps but my seamaster was making me crazy. The tip to apply pressure with your finger did the trick but still not easy. Thanks for the vid.

You saved the day man, shot of whisky was in order.

Nice tips about the tools

LOL.. Take a shot of whisky. I like this guy.

thank you so much. I used the exact same grip as you did and i finally got it off easily after like 30 mins of struggling before watching!

thanks for this!

Thank you so much for sharing this! I was getting frustrated and luckily I stumble upon your video before I brought my watch to the shop.

Thank you soooo much!!!

Dude thank you! I have a watch that my dad gave me in ‘06 that has a metal bracelet but I’ve been wanting to switch to leather.

Thanks for the really useful video! Although at times it sounded as if you were falling asleep during the video

Which tool on Everest's site is the one you're using? I don't see one specifically for Monta.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. Excellent.❤🙏😸👍

THANK YOU!!

thanks used this video! did it under 10mins

Great video, thanks. I bought a replacement rubber strap for my Invicta pro diver 26970 and tried to remove the steel band with the spring bar tool supplied with the rubber strap. In spite of this helpful video, I found it immensely difficult and after two hours threw in the towel. I'm not usually this cack-handed, so I was wondering, do you know of any special probs with this particular watch? I might give it one more try and if it fails, it's a trip to the jeweller's for me, tail between legs. Update, 24hrs later: I decided to try once more before taking it to a jeweller. It was done in seconds! I couldn't believe it after yesterday's blood, sweat, and tears. The secret does seem to be in keeping pressure on the end link with a little light wiggling. So thanks again, Ute Watch Co guy :) Your calm, patient approach was an example to me.

He did it so easy 😁

Thanks did it!

How to assemble the clasp

Tried removing a stubborn longines bracelet with all top of the range tools. Nightmare. Ended up scratching the watch. If you have a stubborn longines take it to a jeweller!

Getting it back on was the real problem for me. Is there an easy way to do that also?

Remove it with this technique. Try to put a bracelet on with this technique, way more difficult (without scratching the watch or bracelet), so I have just purchased the tweezer tool you mentioned that we should not use. I’ll report back with my findings and just how many springbars I lose lol

THANK YOU. I wanted to die. I wanted to chuck this $1500 watch in the trash. This worked.

Removing those with a standard springbar is easy once u know the tactic but there's some stupid jackass brands like TISSOT which uses a ridiculously bad design springbar where there's no gap for u to compress it downwards to remove the springbar/bracelet. On a leather strap it's easy because u can just have dental floss but on a metal bracelet with a ridiculously bad design springbar, that's ridiculous

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Just the reassurance required so I didn't ruin the watch, get frustrated and smash the place up

And how the hell do I get it back in? :D I can't compress it enough to fit the entire springbar between the lugs but not in the holes. It's super frustrating. I think I will just boycott every watch that doesn't come with quick release.

Don’t do this. You will damage your watch. Use the tweezers. Definitely on a good watch.

Oh why they all can't put drilled hole in the lugs?

I Only can say thanks!!!

The springbar system is such a bad and outdated mechanism, especially so for what youd call luxury watches. Good luck if youre dealing with brandnew springbars, youll need it.

my god this is so painful to do, why they made it that way

It should be a crime for companies to not have a quick release system!

Half the battle is having the right tools. The $6 tool I got off Fleabay is junk 😤

I can't understand why watch makers don't provide quick release bracelet as standard in 2021.

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Too hard to do for mine , i will go the jellewery for a watch a several k euros..!

You Sir are God sent, let me know when you are in town, drinks on me.

Often wondered about spring bar escape velocity as it flys across the room during a failed install. Glad I stocked up on extras. Haha. Thanks for the vid.

Thanks for this - I couldn't get the bracelet off my seiko snkl23 until I watched your video :)

Thanks I’ve got a really stubborn San Martin watch bracelet to remove this will help

great video! helped me a lot

What spring bar tool would you recommend for a tudor??