Here is a Seamaster that has spent most of the last 4 years on nato or MN straps.
I wouldn't be too worried.
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Holy crap that’s pristine. Do you regularly clean your strap?
Not really.
Well, interchanging straps helps. Change em out before they get dirty enough. haha
I normally leave this one on all the time. It's the most comfortable strap I've got
It's technically plausible, but it's not a practical concern. You might see significant marks after a couple hundred years of wear.
I only have one NATO strap that I wear infrequently, but yeah, that's completely plausible. Now, what the extent of that will be, I dunno, but on steel watches that I wear a lot (on straps), the caseback is covered with tiny swirls and scratches just from setting down the watch on a wooden surface for years.
At the end of the day, I wouldn't worry about it.
Lmao so much for tough tool watches if they can get scratched by fabric
Oh my gods just wear your fuckin watch