Fit The Watch Band and Get a Kiss!

Step 2 Getting Started

You first must know how many links need to be removed.  In order to do this, place the watch onto the owner's wrist (your wrist if it's your watch) and count the number of links you must squeeze to achieve the desired fit.

Now that you know how many links to remove, bend the retaining clips away from two cosmetic covers at the beginning and end of the segment you wish to remove.  Since you will need to work from the inner side of the watch band, turn the band inside-out for easy access to the retaining clips.

Pay special attention for any repeating pattern that may keep you from reassembling the band if it is disturbed.  For a seamless splice at reassembly, you need the pattern to remain continuous.  If the cosmetic covers are tapered or fit together in any special way, you will want to remove a segment that does not include these changes, where each cosmetic cover is a simple repeating pattern.  Common to ladies' watches is a teardrop pattern mirrored at the band's midpoint.

The band I used for this Instructable was a simple repeating pattern, and all cosmetic covers were identical, therefore all links were fair game for removal.