Chorca's Blog

Intro

I was recently going through a bunch of my old junk while cleaning up my office. I found my old Casio watch, an F-105. It's a relatively old watch, and this was apparent by the fact that the factory resin band had begun to disintegrate.

I needed to get a new band for it, but found that pretty much the only bands available were the original ones from Casio, and a few pastel colors from a similar set of watches that were only released in Japan.

The Idea

While out at Disney a few days later, I'd noticed some new watch bands that were available. Anyone who knows me, knows Stitch is my favorite Disney character, and so I zeroed right in on these.

Wow, it'd be awesome if I had an Apple watch to put this on! The bit that caught my eye though, was that the band seemed to be a very similar width to the band on my Casio. (The 38-40mm version, at least) I wonder if it would fit between the lugs in my Casio?

The Mod

After some measuring of the lugs and the band through the package (using a cut piece of paper) I deduced that the actual width is about 22mm between the bands, so with some trimming, it might fit. The metal arms were attached with T4 screws, but not having a properly sized driver, I just ended up cutting the arms off with snips. Trimming the band down by 2mm per side and about 3mm down (just past the lug opening) cut the band down to the right size to fit between the lugs on the watch and allowed it to slip between them.

Finished it off with some new 18mm watch pins as the originals had locked up solid, and I have a working watch, with an awesome custom band!