Handmade leather watch straps for Panerai watches. All straps shown in the following blog pages are custom made by Toshi Straps, UK
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 [...]
I thought it was about time I updated the gallery, so this morning I've spent a little time going through the photographs that my customers have sent me over the last few weeks after they have received their straps. Below are some of the images [...]
Since I've started selling replacement tubes and screws for Panerai Luminor watches, the question of whether or not to fit strap tubes has come up quite often, so I thought I'd take 5 minutes to explain what they are, what they are used for, and [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most elegant. Anyone who owns a Panerai will know just how much the look of the watch can change with a different colour strap. If you are like me and you have collected a variety of different straps over [...]
Tobacco leather is one of the cheaper leathers I stock but for some reason it often gets over-looked. It is quite a thick leather so it works best on a big watch. It's perfect for a 44mm Panerai Luminor. My 24 is a bit beaten [...]
Over the years, the Gallery has become one of my web sites most popular pages. Ever since I started making watch straps I've always enjoyed seeing the straps I've made fitted to the watches they were commissioned for, and every month I'm pleased to say [...]
It's not often I'm able to make a little time in my schedule to make a new strap for one of my watches, but this morning I started work on a new leather strap for my Panerai 233. I wanted something special to celebrate finally [...]
One of the things I'll be doing in this blog is to show you some of my watches. I was a watch collector long before I made my first strap, and so it seems fitting to show you some of my favourite watches from my [...]
