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Indeed, such a lovely pair too :)
Vintage mil chronos are still a niche for connoisseur only ... but how long will it last
Love your collection, I needed to say that ^^
WS for Friday 7th is Open Now! Let’s Watch your Straps!
Hello Friends!! I cordially invite you to show us your favorite watches with your favorite straps. Straps are a great way of personalizing, customizing or changing the personality of our watches. Leather, canvas, nylon, rubber straps, Nato straps, etc., a...
Fantastic theme, Abel!
And you seem to really be spoiled for choice when it comes to straps 😊 Here are some of mine: Wishing you a fantastic weekend! ...
Thanks a lot my dear KM! Appreciate your kind comments! I see you are a real "Straps Aficionado" here! Great straps for great watches my friend!
I specially like those you installed on your Seiko, Minerva and our P15 Zenith!! All of them giving a distinctive and personal touch to your watches! Hagwe! Abel
Watches and straps
Thanks God! Found a watch with straps. My customized Longines pocket watch. ...
Thank you so much for your contribution Thegrailwatch!! Superb watches and wonderful straps, confirming that these humble but important accesory add a lot of character and...
... personal touch to our timepieces. The Lange Time Zone straps are specially audacious and an stunning addition to this magnific piece. I love it so much! Hagwe! Abel
Ha ha ha!! Thank you so much dear Nicolas!! Yes, I feel we will receive many contributions in the straps department from our Panerai lovers in our Forum...
... I suspected that you would like the 662 shot! Hagwe my dear friend! Abel
I love strap games. Here are some examples.
And as for the watch on my wrist, this one: ...
What a selection you enter here my dear Nicolas!! I feel our judges will have a hard work this week end! The TR and Blancpain watches are specially interesting to play...
... with different straps as they look wonderful in many combinations of materials and colors. The Submariner and Polaris are also wonderful looking with these straps. Not to forget the panerai brand which originated the carzy sport of straps changing! Lo...
Wow Xxcesar!! That´s an awesome and stunning shot/watch/straps!! It raises many questions here: This is a customized golden Turtle Seiko?
Case looks as a Golden Turtle but dial and lume and date disk looks vintage. The bezel... Awesome! And the P-40 Nose Art style of the straps stunning!! Can you give us more details of your timepiece and straps please? Thank you so much for your contributi...
Details
Thanks to all for the interest, so here comes a bit of context. As you can see, I like the Seiko turtle, one if the reasons is, that it is a super base for modifications. This one is a golden (not gold) Seiko, with a number of modifications. The patina is...
Very interesting Cesar. Thank you for the clarification. I also own a Golden Turtle which is a lovely watch indeed.
If you have posted the customizing process in the past I missed I regret to say. Will try to find it to read it! Cheers! Abel
Mod
Aside from the turtle being a nice watch to begin with, the variety of „tuning“ parts to make it your personal one-of is huge. I‘d recommend to start thinking about how you want yours to be special.
Agree that the turtle gold is a great watch. I like it so much. Regrettably I don´t have the skills and audacity (and pulse!) to try to customize a watch. Only things I can try is...
... changing bracelets or straps Lol! But looking the bezel of yours may me think about it! Cheers! Abel
Go for it - try iit out
That bezel you can source via one-second-closer. Just google it.
Essentially a G10 straps kind of man ...
... because it serves its purpose better than other fabrics... ... no matter the situation Fred ^^ ...
Nothing compares to your mindblowing Tornek
Please insert here as many love emoticons as you can imagine
Great shots Fred! And great watches and straps choices. Agree with your feeling about these straps. Not easy for me to say which one of your three beauties I like best...
... Guess I would say any of them would make me a very happy man! Hagwe! Abel
Well, being a vintage chrono freak...
... my choice gets easier ... even strapless Below is my today’s selection (morning and afternoon watch ) Hagwe ^^ ...
Thnk you Ludi!! Your two watches look beautiful even naked!! Lol! Guess many combos would look wonderful on them, Would love to view them once you decide how....
... to "dress" them today! Have a nice week end my friend! Abel.
Last pic is 100% off topic..
.. my deepest apologies for that. Again, standard basic g10 straps, military green on Lemania, navy blue on Hamilton... nothing fancy
Ohh! No need to appologize dear Ludi!! Your two watches are gorgeous and the picture without straps show them in their natural beauty. My comment was just because I thoughtht...
... you would put them in different straps than in your previous pictures. Thank you for sharing them my friend! All the best, Abel.
Well, let me make it up to you anyway...
... with my wife’s weapon of choice. Beware, strong girly fashion ahead She even steals my premoon from time to time ... oh surprise, G10 again Hope I’ll be forgiven ...
Great Ludi! I see some winning shots here! Great for your lovely wife as model! And some charming watch/straps combos!
The lady shows great taste to match colors and straps! Cheers! Abel
Indeed, such a lovely pair too :)
Vintage mil chronos are still a niche for connoisseur only ... but how long will it last Love your collection, I needed to say that ^^
I've really done noting special with straps so far, the only two possible exceptions being these two Pateks, for which they kindly sent me two new straps upon purchase...
It's a Calatrava 5119R and a Gondolo 5124G, that I wanted to make less ordinary/boring by changing them to a light blue and a flashy red strap... Cheers ...
Hello my friend Fab!! Well... you say you only played the straps game with two watches but you have done it with great taste and style!! Two excelent choices...
... and I am specially impressed with the Gondolo! Those red straps add a lot of spectacular character and charm to an stunning beautiful piece. I love it! Hagwe! Abel.
Great theme
IT can give you that ,,new watch ,, feeling . Sorry still not at home to post a nice pic from my strap collection but will give some exempels what i mean . My Angelus with a new white rubber strap Here on a black rubber strap Here a good example on a stra...
Thanks a lot for your contribution Watchonthewrist! Stunning watches and a clear demonstration of how we can change the image of our watches and as you well say ...
... give the feeling of a new different watch with just a simple straps/bracelet change. best part of the game is we can always easily restore the original look of our watches if we get tired of the straps or don´t feel comfrotable with them. Hagwe my fri...
As a vintage watch fan, I enjoy some vintage-looking straps
One style I’ve been trying is thin straps with no stitching at the lugs nor at the sides, very plain and simple. Either in croc... ... or in calf. And yes, I have a fondness for Longines time-only watches with subdials ;-) ...
Great choices NT931!! They look very nice on these Longines. I specially love the first one: croco and lacking stitching gives an understated and very elegant look to this classy timepiece.
Your second choice is very nice indeed: those straps perfectly match the rose gold case of this beauty! A classy combo! Hagwe my friend! Abel.
One more to add
Not my photo but one I saved from many years back because it perfectly highlights the fun and craziness of the Panerai strap culture ...
My first shell cordovan strap by Attila Aszodi . . .
. . . was made ten years ago. When GO loaned a Senator Sixties to yours truly at the tail end of '08, it was supplied with a long strap that required extra holes to fit my slender wrist. At just about the same time, Attila began making straps; this bespok...
Hello dear friend Art! Atila is a well regarded strap maker today, so owning a set from his first days of production makes it a true collection piece.
A Speedy would be a great addition to your Omega collection. And a nice candidate to have these beautiful straps installed on it! Regarding the Glashutte Sixties, it is a most beautiful watch. I own a date version which I wear from time to time with the o...
Fast-forward to the present: Attila made . . .
. . . this Bund strap that complements . . . . . . my '72 GS. ...
Only had a few strap changes in the past,
Fagliano for rouge my favourite Tudor in strap Blue sharkskin for Ebel Tool watches from seiko 5 with fabric straps HAGWE henry ...
I’ve owned it for many years...
and can’t imagine letting it go. I’m just planning another strap change 😉
Thank you for your kind message...
Stand by for another post as I’m still playing with straps !!!
Hi Abel, you said straps??
Have a good weekend! SF I bought straps faster than I could use them....... My brother borrowed the 372 so it could not join the pile above Rolex can play the strap game as well😉 ...
Great shots and an awesome strap collection dear SF!! Absolutely agree with you: watch lovers and collectors seem to buy straps faster than the possibility of using them! Lol!...
... We are so greedy!! ha ha ha! Awesome shots and superb watches. Hagwe my friend! Abel
Very nice theme, dear Abel. I‘ll play with one watch...
... and since today is World Ocean Day, it’s my Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Ocean Commitment III on various strap choices 😎 Have a great weekend everyone! Cheers Henrik ...
Thanks a lot dear Henrik for your contribution to our thread!! That´s a lovely timepiece and very appropriate for the celebration! It is always beautiful with any of the combos you show...
... and of course with its original steel bracelet as well. Though not the ideal straps for a diver watch, I like the leather Nato so much! As a matter of fact I often wear diving watches with leather straps. Hagwe my friend! Cheers! Abel
How about a few Bund Straps for a different look...
Tudor Big Block on Distressed leather Omega Seamaster cal 321 Rolex Speedking 4220 ca. 1942 Longines Ultra-Chron diver ...
Very nice Frank! An interesting option indeed...
... I have no straps of this type. Guess I need to explore it! Thanks for sharing them here!! Cheers! Hagwe! Abel
Thank you!
Bund Straps have an interesting history dating back to WW1 when the Germans issued them to aviators in order to help protect the wrist from extreme cold and / or heat on the wrist from a stainless steel watch case. They also found another benefit of the B...
Thank you Frank again. This is a most interesting story indeed. Bund straps also have an advantage with small sized watches like the Rolex Ovettone: they wear larger on the wrist...
... (visually I mean) when worn with a Bund. An interesting option for sure. Cheers! Abel.
There is something really great about the Omega Dynamic
I've seen photos of them a handful of times but never really paid close attention to them. I quite like the design and love all the strap combos you shared with us. Nicely done and thank you!
😊 ... that new strap on the 662 just puts it on a new level .
So much fun to wear ...
Wrong question. Question should which I haven’t on it before , lol.
I basically have to favorite straps. This reddish brown one and a greyish one. Then I get a dial color I like the most . ...
Welcome to our contest dear friend Ahoi!! Spectacular post with your superb pictures of some watch/straps combos.
Hagwe my friend and thank you for sharing! Abel
Ah, the good ol' days . . .
. . . how I miss them! Pint after pint of ale on a Sunday afternoon. It's gonna be a rough life doing without ;-) . . .
As they say in Mexico . . .
. . . no mas para mi ! The consequences of gout have gotten to the point where I have to forego one of life's great pleasures. Thank goodness for vodka ;-) . . .
Sad to say, most of the good stuff . . .
. . . is off-limits from now on. Only the purest vodkas will do. ;-(
A couple combos of mine ........
On salmon skin ... Nubuck ... Having fun reshaping a buckle with a Dremel. Original on right ... Final version ... Bob ...
Hello Bob! Welcome to our weekly contest WS!! Great entry with some stunning photography and awesome watches and straps!
Thank you for sharing your beauties with us!! All the best, Abel
Hi Bob...
Welcome to WristScan. Some great straps and I love the work on your buckles !
