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I have to confess to poor Layer management. I mean well, but in doing tutorials it is hard to keep the layers straight since each step is a separate illustration for me as opposed to doing all the steps in place as you are doing. So working with Layers is really not an option for me. As a result, I often forget which layer I am supposed to be on. As such you are pretty much on your own to turn the appropriate layers on and off if I forget to mention it.

At any rate, you might want to create a new layer for the Watch Band.

Create a rectangle with curved corners. Make 5 duplicates and arrange them as shown on the left. Clone the shapes shown in pink and light purple and drag the resizing control handles to flop the shapes. Select the light purple shapes and click twice to enable Rotate/Skew mode. Drag the outside skew handles to skew the sides downward 45 degrees as shown.

Make Layer 1 visible and unlocked for a moment. Copy the yellow O-shape to the clipboard, select the Watch Band layer and paste the O-shape on top using Shift Ctrl v which pastes the copy in the same place from which it was copied. Make all but the Watch Band layer visible and lock the other layers.

Group the link shapes. Select the O-shape and the grouped link shapes and Arrange > Combine Shapes... Subtract Shapes. The O-shape disappears leaving the band. Ungroup the link shapes. Select the bottom most shape, and Arrange > Break Shapes. Delete the bottom portion. Group the remaining shapes.

Clone the link objects and rotate the cloned group 180 degrees.

Make all the layers visible. Here are all the parts.

Save your drawing and take a short break. When you return we will color the objects.

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