Over the last couple of months I've made myself several new straps to refresh my personal strap collection. Last night I was thinking and I realised that there are five straps that are getting almost all of my "wrist time" at the moment. These five [...]
Almost 10 years ago to the day I saw a watch advertised for sale on a UK based watch forum. It was made by a hobbyist to resemble a beaten up Panerai 3646 with fixed bars from the late 1930's, but was obviously not made [...]
There are some watches that I own that I would struggle to live without, and the Precista PRS-2 "Dreadnought" is one of them. For those of you who are not familiar with this watch, it was designed and developed by a chap called Eddie Platts [...]
A brown leather watch strap on a Panerai is a classic look, but with so many different brown leathers available I can understand why choosing just one can be so difficult. Obviously I like all the leathers I offer on my website - I wouldn't [...]
The Polluce was released by Anonimo in 2006 and although produced only in very limited numbers it has become something of an icon for collectors of dive watches, especially those interested in Panerai (and the various off-shoots that came into being when Panerai was sold [...]
Giallo leather is produced by the same Italian tannery that produces both the Typhoon and Tempest leathers for me. Many of you will know just how impressed I've been with Typhoon and Tempest, and the feedback I've had from customers has been simply amazing with [...]
Horween Nut Brown was launched last month along with 7 other new leathers, and as soon as I could find some time I just had to get to work on a strap from it for myself - and specifically for my "87". I really couldn't [...]
Many of the leathers I use when making watch straps are full grain, vegetable tanned leathers. Full grain leathers are my preference to work with because they have the best structure for a watch strap, and also because a watch strap made from a full [...]
My Anonimo Militare is one of the very first dive watches I ever bought, and it still gets more wrist time than most of my other watches. I've been wearing it on a Mushroom leather strap for the last 12 months or so, but I [...]
Typhoon leather is one of a dozen or so leathers I introduced last summer after my annual road trip, and it's become very popular over the last 6 months (and getting rave reviews from those of you who have ordered a strap made from it, [...]
