Description

Made exclusively for Black Bough, these pull-through watch straps are handmade in Shropshire using Italian wild boar dark brown leather. The grain of this wild boar leather has a wonderful three dimensionality and a scribed border frames the straps’ edges. The tongues finish in a smart chisel-form tip.  Ideal for watches with fixed bar lugs, the straps can be attached in the same way as NATO-style straps. The leather is thinned down to a thickness of 1mm and the supple nature of the leather ensures that the straps fit easily around a watch’s lug bars and case back. To ensure the malleability of the straps they are unlined and a solution of carrageen moss extract is applied to the back of the leather to bind the fibres and smooth the surface. The buckles and keeps are hand sewn using linen thread coated with beeswax.

Vegetable tanning is the historic and traditional method of making the leather durable and involves steeping animal skins in a succession of pits filled with tanning liquor, this is derived from natural plant materials such as oak bark, sumac or mimosa. The process can take months or even years and leaves the leather with a slightly open texture which allows the leather to change with age, developing its own patination and suppleness. Today, only around 4% of leather worldwide is tanned in this way.

Thickness

Approximately 1mm

Strap Sizes

Suitable for wrist sizes from 160mm-215mm
16mm lug gauge: total strap length 230mm (excluding buckle)
17mm-20mm lug gauges: total strap length 240mm (excluding buckle)

Buckles are available in either yellow gold plated or steel. All buckles are nickel free.

All straps are supplied with a pair of spring bars

The watch shown in the photographs is for illustrative purposes only