Watch Modding the Speedy Gonzales way...Zilla Bracelet for the Citizen Autozilla 1000m...Year 2016

Am late to the watch modding scene...better late than never :-)

I've been to the Suppa Parts site www.suppaparts.com

and seen the Zilla Bracelet page. Voila!

Came away blown by the Zilla Bracelet! A beautiful all titanium bracelet with rare enough 24mm curved edge solid ends and 5mm thick solid links with special titanium adapters (Citizen Zilla series specific) and comes with a 22mm wide straight edge STEVRAL stainless steel foldover clasp with buttons and divers ratchet extension that I now deem a thing of beauty having held it in my hands! This bracelet was custom designed for the Zillas only.

The stainless steel extensible foldover clasp has dual sided buttons for the clasp lock and the divers ratchet extension requiring four buttons in total. Long enough for wet suit use? Maybe. It felt light enough as compared to an all stainless steel bracelet.

The bracelet comes pre-fitted with the ends titanium adapters, a drop-in for Citizen's Zilla series, basically the lone-ranger Autozilla and the Ecozilla variants. These titanium adapters uses spring bars as opposed to the other Suppaparts variant not meant to support this bracelet using screw bars. I suspect the screw bars probably differs in external diameter and may not fit this bracelet's curved ends, thus the spring bars.

Suppaparts ordering was quite a no-nonsense affair...in a sense...instructions online tells one there is no need to ask for stock availability/time of delivery, etc. If the product was shown online at their site, be assured that Suppaparts still makes it and will deliver so else no!

I had initially thought to send mail to their contact to sus them out first! Their international office being located in Thailand(no address given, strictly online) although orders for the US have their US counterparts in US soil. The Zilla Bracelet was exclusively ordered through the Thailand office only, due to sold out orders in the US! Wow! that got me excited even more!

A point to note is that the titanium is not surface hardened and nothing like the Duratect treated Zilla watch cases of which it was meant to be fitted to.

5mm thick links just strikes a chord of music in my inner aesthetic admiration portion. I imbue true appreciation beyond words. This art form is...is just Picasso doing alchemy with metallurgy done right! :-)

How to describe? Curved metallic angular beauty with the right radiusing...I can only compare this to an all steel billet crankshaft or connecting rods to have any semblance.

Yummy...Sweet...

Speechless...at the moment...

I ordered online and PayPal'ed the Zilla Bracelet...unlike most other online stores who would immediately(within the same day or two) give an email confirmation of your order, Suppaparts was quiet! Second day nothing...Third day nothing. Got me wondering if I should have sus'ed them out beforehand again. Then I remembered to check PayPal and voila the shipping info was updated on the second day with a Fedex tracking number! The package had arrived at my town already and in my urgency I went straight to my local Fedex office and promptly signed for it! What a delight!

Oh! no affiliations with SuppaParts except for admiration of the wizards behind them! :-)

Next...modding the Autozilla...