Google has recently announced its Fitbit Air fitness tracker, and at $99.99 price tag, it managed to pique the interest of quite a few people. This fitness tracker’s whole personality is to be, well, hidden.
You can add a regular watch to your Google Fitbit Air package
The Google Fitbit Air gets tucked away inside a band and is basically invisible when you’re walking around. Part of that band covers it, and there’s no display to speak of. To many people, the whole package looks like a regular bracelet.
Well, someone got a bright idea to add a watch to the combo. Yes, a regular watch, and you can do it too, actually. It’s rather easy to mount the watch on the same strap that the Fitbit Air uses.
People reporting on Reddit are mostly using Casio and Timex watches
Quite a few people on Reddit did it. Some people used Casio watches, other Timex watches in this example. They figured out that the 18mm width of the Fitbit Air allows it to slide through watch bars. People used Fitbit Air’s Performance Loop Band to make this happen.
Do note that this won’t work with every watch you own. However, if the lug width is at least 18mm, you can try to slide the Performance Loop Band through each bar and under the watch to create a nato watch strap. As the one you see below.
The Fitbit Air itself will still remain attached to the same bar, but it will sit at the bottom of your wrist, not on top of it, where a watch band clasp would usually sit.
This is how you can do it too
How can you do this? The first thing you’ll need to do is undo the Fitbit Air strap, but leave the body itself attached to it. Then, remove a strap from your watch, but don’t remove the spring bars. Slide the Fitbit Air Strap through your watch’s spring bars, like a single-pass NATO band. Then, secure the band so that the Fitbit Air sits under your wrist, and the watch itself on top. That’s basically it.
This is a rather neat trick that kind of gives you both a fitness tracker and a regular watch at the same time, but it doesn’t look odd. It’s also worth noting that Google recently enabled users to print their own Fitbit Air bands, so we’ll likely get a ton more strap options moving forward.
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