Well I tried the bracelet on a small job with interesting results. I needed to add a hose fitting so I snapped a 1/4” socket onto the bracelet to do it. It isn’t as efficient as a ratcheting socket wrench, but the floppiness of the bracelet made it nearly as efficient. The links don’t bend at all in the flat plain so torque can be added to forcefully tighten the job.
After I had finished, I put the socket into my pocket and returned the watch to my wrist. I went back to the hose and realized I had blocked access behind it with the clamp’s bolt. It needed to be rotated 180° To the zither side of the hose. Rather than dig around in my pocket for the socket, I nearly removed the watch and used the philips driver to loosen and reset the clamp.
I don’t know about jobs that will require real tools, but there was virtually zero stress or frustration with this task.
My beater watch is always on my wrist anyway and with the bracelet, I know it can handle limited tasks efficiently. It offers few choices of box wrench sizes, due mainly to my small wrist size (6.5”) and the fact the only watch uses 2 links worth of tool space. For versatility I’ve committed the Allen wrench sizes to metric and the box wrench sizes to English. I can always swap out links and don’t yet know how useful it’ll be after the newness wears off, but I think this’ll be the watch I’ll be wearing when I’m working on the car this winter.
