cazalea
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New Strap + Old Watch = New Watch (to me)
At least that's how I see things. I have had this Stowa Marine special edition for a long time and its strap had given up more than once.
I repaired it with epoxy, staples! and some thread, and replaced the missing keeper with some O-rings. When the watch head end let loose, I was able to catch it in time, and swore to get a new strap.
I dug around in my strap drawers and found one almost exactly the same -- I must have ordered it and forgot that I did so, or else it just materialized from a parallel universe ...
This one seems much stronger and is not missing any essential parts - in fact it even had a factory tag on it so I didn't imagine that it was new.
I'm so happy I decided to jump the gun and have a corned beef sandwich a few days early.
Cheers,
Cazalea
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New Strap + Old Watch = New Watch (to me)
At least that's how I see things. I have had this Stowa Marine special edition for a long time and its strap had given up more than once. I repaired it with epoxy, staples! and some thread, and replaced the missing keeper with some O-rings. When the watch...
Thats a good matching strap for the Stowa.
Many times, a change of the strap or swapping to a rice bead/mesh steel strap really transform how an “old watch” look.
