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 offer them otherwise – but I thought I’d make a personal recommendation. If you are going to have just one brown leather watch strap for your Panerai, then I think Shooting Brake is the one you should go for – and until the end of the month you can commission one to be made for you for £25 off the regular price (see the bottom of this post for details).
Shooting Brake is one of my “short run” leathers. By that I mean that once the leather I have is gone I won’t be able to get any more of it. It’s a very soft, fully vegetable tanned leather that was manufactured by a UK tannery as a special order for a customer a couple of years ago. The tannery produced a little more than was ordered by their customer, and the leather remaining was offered to me last spring. After looking at it I immediately bought all the tannery had left, and I’m very pleased I did as it makes a beautiful watch strap. As well as being very soft from the start it has a lovely delicate texture and a slight pull up. This is a truly high-end leather. It was launched on my site at the end of April last year and has been very popular, with glowing reviews from those customers who have had a strap made from it.
Over the holidays I was trying to decide what strap I should make for my Panerai 233. I’ve been mainly wearing Giallo, Military Grey and Aqua straps with it recently, and I wanted something a little more conservative for a change. In the end I decided Shooting Brake with dark brown stitching was a good call and got to work. I made the strap shown in these photographs with a sewn in keeper and one of the handmade buckles I’d had made & engraved for myself last year. I’m really pleased with the result.
So, if a brown leather watch strap is in your future I think you would be mad to miss this wonderful leather.
To make it easier for you here is my offer – until the end of this month (March 2019) you can save £25 off the normal cost of a Shooting Brake leather strap. When you get to the checkout page, simply use the discount code £25OFF. As long as there is a Shooting Brake leather strap in your shopping cart you will see a discount of £25 applied. This offer is running now and for the next 20 days – it expires at mightnight (UK time) on March 31st 2019.
