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: If I recall correctly when I owned my 2296.80
: for all of three weeks, there are at least
: two smaller size links, with one being a
: half and the other being more like 2/3rds,
: so you can fine tune the size. The 2298 is
: indeed obsolete in the US, and the last NIB
: one I saw was in Gothenburg Sweden in June
: of 2005.
That's interesting, Sam. I never saw anything other than full links and half links in the Bond bracelet. What is surprising to me is that the regular Bond bracelets (for the Seamaster Pro and Seamaster GMT co-axial) come with TWO half-links (one on each side of the bracelet), yet the bracelet that comes with the Bond chrono only has one half-link.
Here is a picture of the bracelet for the Bond chrono (taken from Otto Frei's website). You can clearly see only one half-link on the 6 o'clock side:
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