Received the watch and it was so beautiful. I noticed a string hanging from the band, I tried to cut the string with a very sharp knife but the string was very tough and did not cut. When applying pressure to the πͺ to begin to cut, it was like I was trying to use the back of the πͺ, it just made a other strings show up along the trail of the first attempt to cut the first string. Now I have multiple hanging strings. So then I tried a cigarette lighter, "major fail". I still love this watch, I have a collection of them, but I will avoid the ones with this band