My post-lockdown commute back to work

[Klondyke]

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You can get it exchanged in Thailand on the road (once you are back) for few hundred Baht, no breakage over 10 years...

[Saint Willy]

You can get it exchanged in Thailand on the road (once you are back) for few hundred Baht, no breakage over 10 years...

for a shite bracelet, no thanks.

[Shutree]

You can get it exchanged in Thailand on the road (once you are back) for few hundred Baht, no breakage over 10 years...

Whoa! Don't exchange the old strap, there is a good market for all things original Rolex.

It looks like just a few pins that join the links need tapping out and replacing. In Thailand many of the small watch repair stalls can do it for about B50 per pin. Just stand over them and make sure you end up with the same number of links as you started with, even individual links have a market.
Of course if you want to change the strap then go ahead and be sure to keep the original.

[Mendip]

Whoa! Don't exchange the old strap, there is a good market for all things original Rolex.
It looks like just a few pins that join the links need tapping out and replacing.

Sadly if you look at the second pic closely the pin is in place but the actual link has worn through... and there are a few more on their way.

I guess 30 years of my wrist movements... plus whatever went before... has taken it's toll.

Cue the gardener joke...

[Shutree]

Sadly if you look at the second pic closely the pin is in place but the actual link has worn through... and there are a few more on their way.

I guess 30 years of my wrist movements... plus whatever went before... has taken it's toll.

Cue the gardener joke...

On my phone today, small pics and I didn't notice until you pointed that out. Never seen that before. I have had mine 40 years and wore it every day until I put it back in its box a couple of years ago. I never noticed that kind of wear. Maybe you got some abrasive material in the links?