The Anonimo Militare is one of the first dive watches I ever bought, and still one of my favourites. Back in 2006 when I had just started experimenting with making leather watch straps, a friend bought round his cream dialled Militare to ask if I [...]
I'm often asked to make suggestions for straps for specific watches, and it seems the dial colour that many people seem to struggle with most is white. I've recently made a new strap for my Panerai 114, and so I thought I'd take the opportunity [...]
I've posted before about my love of vintage dive watches, and today I thought I'd write a short post about one of my favourites, and possibly one of the most unusual dive watches in my collection. This is my Omega Seamaster 120 f300Hz which dates [...]
I launched a lot of new leathers in May this year (I've just counted them - there were 19 of them!) and so I really didn't expect to be adding any more for a while, but that was before I took a trip to a [...]
I thought I'd take some time this morning to write a blog post about one of my personal favourite watches - the Anonimo Professionale. In a previous blog post (Panerai 233) I mentioned that in 1997 Panerai was sold to the Vendome Group of Richemont [...]
Lemon is another of my favourite leathers. I realise this won't be to everyone's taste, but I think a bright coloured strap works so well sometimes, and this is perfect for the summer months. Lemon is a pure vegetable tanned leather with an analine stained [...]
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that of all the leathers I've worked with, Emerald leather is my absolute favourite. I realise that is a very strong statement, but it really is a fabulous leather. Believe it or not, a green [...]
I've finally managed to get (almost) all of the new leathers up on my website and as a result life is now getting back to some sort of normality at Toshi Straps HQ. The big problem with launching 18 new leathers over the last 2 [...]
A question I'm often asked is what is my favourite watch. It's a question I really can't answer because there are so many to choose from, but I suppose everyone has their favourite watch type and for me it's always been dive watches. More specifically [...]
The Panerai 233 is, without a doubt, my favourite Panerai. The moment I first saw photographs of the watch after it's release in 2006 I wanted one, and I finally bought mine in 2008. At the time it was the most expensive watch I'd ever [...]
