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Seiko 6139 - Triple Railroad Bracelet - Extra Links Are As Rare As Unicorn Tears

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I've got a really great 6139-6012 Seiko 'Deep Blue' chronograph from 1972 that has an original 'Triple Railroad' bracelet.  It is going to make for a fantastic project watch.  I have rather large wrists and have been trying to source an extra link for this bracelet. It fits in it longest configuration, but is a little tight.  Perhaps if I lost 20 pounds it'd fit better, haha!  The 'Triple' railroad bracelet model appears to be much less common, and I'm finding it to be an impossible task trying to source a single extra link.  I found an eBay listing for a very beat up and used triple railroad bracelet, which quickly sold for over $170 USD!  Just the bracelet!  I'm thinking that I may be out of luck on this.  I don't expect that anyone here might have one or know where I can find one, but all of my usual sources are coming up empty.  The vintage Seiko Facebook groups are also don't show any availability.  Amazingly I can't even find an aftermarket link, which is surprising because there is usually quite a lot of options for that type of stuff for old Seikos, especially the chronograph models.

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I'm just posting this as a rant to vent my frustration at not being able to find one!  Cheers all!

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3 minutes ago, Marc said:

You could always try something like this.

 

Oh my gosh, I didn't even know those existed!  Thank you!!!

10 minutes ago, watchweasol said:

Hi   I suppose you have looked at getting somthing very close and robbing the links from that, if you have to do that put the links at the clasp ends, not as noticeable

Thanks.  I did look but anything that had that triple railroad Seiko bracelet costs way to much to justify buying it for a link.  I was trying to exhaust every option outside of that.  Thankfully Marc informed me about buckle extenders, which I'm amazed I had never heard of before (especially considering I have to address bracelet & strap length on nearly every watch I have).  

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