Mission Belt Men's 40mm Leather Ratchet Belt - Adjustable No-Hole Design for Business & Casual Wear | Premium Solid Collection | Perfect for Office, Travel & Everyday Use

This belt is great, I've never had one with a ratcheting buckle before. The backside of the belt has a flexible, tough plastic insert with indentations, sort of like a larger version of a zip-tie. The buckle has a corresponding ratchet that quietly clicks through each indentation in a one-way action until you stop pulling the belt through.The leather and buckle look nice, as well. I've only had it for a while, so can't speak to longevity, but I plan to come back in the future and update about longer-term use.Now to the warning - my belt didn't come with instructions (or I couldn't find them), and figuring out putting on the belt is pretty instinctive, *however* it is not immediately clear how to release the ratchet so you can pull the belt back out through the buckle. The trick is that there is a small lever on the bottom edge of the buckle on the right-hand side, and you pivot that lever outwards to release the ratchet. I find that it helps to both pull the lever outwards while also pushing the belt further in (tightening), which seems to help 'release' the belt from the ratchet so you can pull it out.When I first got the belt I tried it on and it fit great, then I got distracted and didn't figure out how to loosen it until it became a...well..urgent biological issue. My advice to you is to practice taking the belt off when you're not under pressure to be sure you get how it works, otherwise you might end up being a gunslinger who gets hung up on the draw and ends up shooting himself in the foot (if you know what I mean and I think you do).Fortunately for me I was able to get it figured out in time to avoid a catastrophe, but it was close, kind of like those movie scenes with the big red ticking digital bomb countdown timer. I defused it just in time, but it was a cliffhanger.Bottom line is, this is a great belt. It's really not hard to unbuckle at all, but it's just a unique mechanism so it'll take a couple of test repetitions to get the hang of it.