I’m a full-grown adult, but putting on a wristwatch is still a small achievement of dexterity each morning. You have to flip one hand upside down, while the other hand—using methodologies that sports technicians using slow motion cameras can still barely deconstruct—must somehow grab both ends of the strap and coax them together through a buckle.
But is Nendo’s whole one-strap method really easier than putting on your typical watch? In theory! It means you don’t need to navigate two straps when one may do. The other benefit is that, with the fixed buckle serving as a fulcrum, the watch strap can then be tightened just by pulling on it—like a winch. The Buckle could be the perfect cure for those of us who obsessively swap between one watch hole and another in an unending quest for comfort.
The Buckle is available now in Japan, starting at around $160.