The strap library

Grouped by theme rather than by product, because the argument is the range itself: classic calf, square and integrated cases, Apple Watch, exotic alligator. Everything here is cut, skived, stitched and burnished by hand, and everything here is a starting point for a specification — not a finished product ordered off a page.

5 themes · 21 plates

Classic

Smooth calf, the classical register

Padded or flat, hand-stitched, edges creased and burnished by hand. The register a dress watch asks for, where the strap has to recede and the finishing has to not.

French and Italian smooth calf · Box calf · Vegetable-tanned linings

Brown calf leather watch strap on a white-dialled dress watch, lying on an open magazine spread of an autumn field, with two rolls of 35mm film beside it — Padded brown calf, tonal saddle stitch

Oxblood calf leather watch strap on a white-dialled watch, laid on a grey pebbled-leather bag beside a wooden shoehorn and a tan leather card case — Oxblood calf, edges creased and burnished

Oxblood calf leather watch strap worn on the wrist under a black knitted cuff, showing how the padded strap falls around the arm — Worn — where a dress strap is finally judged

Square & integrated cases

Where the strap has to become part of the case

A square case with an integrated lug line leaves nowhere for a strap to hide: the shoulders have to meet the case exactly, or the whole watch looks wrong. It is the hardest fitting problem we are asked for, and the one we are asked for most often.

Smooth calf · Box calf · Cut-to-case shoulders · Matched edge paint

Navy calf leather strap fitted to a steel square-cased watch with a Roman-numeral dial, photographed on blue-and-white porcelain — Shoulders cut to the case, not to a size chart

Navy calf leather watch strap on a square-cased dress watch, curled on bone-coloured suede so the integrated lug line reads end to end — The lug line, uninterrupted

Navy leather strap on a square-cased watch worn on the wrist beneath a cream knitted sleeve — On the wrist, where the fitting either works or does not

Navy leather watch strap on a square-cased watch laid flat on a desk beside folded sunglasses and an open black-and-white magazine — The whole watch, flat, nothing cropped away

Apple Watch & smart

Leather on a machined stainless adapter

Precision-machined stainless adapters fitted to leather bands and tolerance-checked against the case. Our fastest-growing line and the one with the tightest hardware specification — which is why the whole dye range lives here rather than in a colour chart of its own.

Calf · Shell Cordovan · Suede · Custom-finished stainless adapters

Black leather Apple Watch band with cream contrast stitching and a steel buckle, the watch fitted at its lower end, laid on grey beside a black-and-white portrait photograph — Black calf on a machined stainless adapter

Apple Watch on a black leather band laid diagonally across grey, throwing its own shadow, the cream stitch line running the length of the band — Edge stitching, read off its own shadow

Leather Apple Watch bands in crimson, orange, yellow, navy, tan and grey laid across black leather folios around an Apple Watch fitted with a black band — One pattern, run across the dye range

Black leather Apple Watch band lying across an open book, the full band, both adapters and the stitch line visible end to end — Band, adapter and stitch line, end to end

Exotic — alligator

Alligator, crocodile, and the placing of scales

CITES-documented skins, scale-matched across the pair and cut to place the tiles where you want them. Square scale, round scale or hornback, in matte, semi-matte or glazed finish.

Alligator mississippiensis · Nile crocodile · Lizard · Ostrich

A gold-and-black dive watch on a black leather folio, ringed by five alligator watch straps in brown, grey and navy, each with its buckle fitted — One case, five skins — the range in a single frame

Black alligator leather watch strap with a gold buckle on a gold-and-black dive watch, standing upright on tan suede beside an open book, the belly scales tapering toward the buckle — Tiles placed, not simply cut through

The same gold-and-black dive watch on black alligator laid on tan suede beside a matching alligator card case — The same skin, worked two ways

Grey alligator leather watch strap on a gold-and-black dive watch, lying across an open magazine spread with reading glasses behind it — Scale run read end to end, lug to tip

On the wrist

The only test that counts

A strap photographed flat is a specification. A strap on an arm is the product. These are the frames where the curve, the fall and the way the leather sits against skin are the whole subject.

Grained calf · Alligator · Padded and flat constructions

Grained brown calf leather watch strap on a black-dialled watch worn on the wrist against a tan background — How a grain behaves once it is worn

Black alligator leather watch strap on a gold-and-black dive watch worn on the wrist beneath a cream knitted sleeve — Alligator, curved — the tiles still in line

A hand at rest over an open book, wearing a dive watch on a dark leather strap, the strap falling naturally around the wrist — At rest, with nobody posing for it

The sample box

Every strap on this page began as a sample. The box is how a specification stops being a conversation: leathers, colours, stitch and edge finishes in the hand, cut on our patterns and finished on our line.

We send it to qualified buyers at no charge. Tell us the case, the leathers you want to see, and where to ship it.

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An open leather sample box holding two trays of watch straps in orange, red, navy, tan and black, on a workbench — Two trays, cut on our patterns

The sample box photographed upright on the workbench with its trays of coloured leather watch straps open — The folio a specification starts from