Need a new watch

I was riding my bicycle over some rocks when I fell and had my watch ripped off my arm. That hurt and left a little scar where each link in the band gouged my skin. This image is my watch band where the linkage pin was sheered off on the lower section. A linkage pin is between the two broken pieces for reference. The original broken pin is still stuck in the band which you can see is bent out of shape. The sheered off portion is missing from the bottom of the pin. I wonder how much force it took to sheer that off, I know my arm didn't like it.

So that watch band is not repairable by me and I need a new one. The problem is that it is a Casio watch and I can't find a band for it anywhere. I really like the watch as it is a solar powered model with the automatic time sync via radio. This is my second watch with this feature set but with the metal band. The first one was with the resin band and it also broke after about a year of use. Though the resin band broke from normal wear when it started to crack, this metal one breaking was all my fault.
The way the Casio watch bands attach to the watch are all kind of weird such that I can't just get any replacement band, I need a specific Casio version of a replacement band, yet I can't find one anywhere I've looked.
So I think I'm in the market for a new digital watch unless someone has a good idea where to get a new band.


Got a new one
I found a new watch. This is a Casio MTG-960DA which features a reverse LCD and almost all the same features as my previous watch. The only thing missing was the sunrise sunset time which I didn't really need or use.
The reverse LCD is taking some getting use to. It is very hard to see in low light conditions and thus I have turned on the auto light feature. We'll see how that works out as I always kept the auto light turned off on my previous watches.
And yes this is my third Casio with almost the exact same feature set.
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