These do not look anything like the high end ($200.00+) bespoke straps I've seen out there - they look marginally better than a $20.00 strap, from the photo anyway. Can anyone chime in on the quality of these?
I ordered one of the Vulture straps, and am kind of shocked that these straps here are more expensive. The workmanship looks sloppier, the stitching uniformity, the stitch length, the edges. And the hardware is not as nice. If the leather were super-funky in some way I might understand, but nobody's going to look at these and think it's not just normal leather.
On the Vulture site their straps are $100 retail, but if the strap I receive is as good as it looks online, I may pay that much outside of Massdrop to get a strap made from the cool Italian camouflage leather on the Vulture website.
Vulture makes great straps, but most vintage/ammo pouch straps carry a significant premium over "new" leather like the Vulture drop. For example, Ted Su ammo pouch straps are $200-280 range; Dangerous9 is well north of $250; etc.
While I can't speak for the quality of Du-Luca's work, the pricing at $100 certainly caught my attention.
We agree that the value is extraordinary here and if more people knew what this exactly was, then these would be sold out as people would be interested in multiple units at this extremely low price of $99.99 per strap.
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I have both and both are excellent, but they are orders of magnitude more $$ than this drop. I'm ordering one of these... the potential value proposition is just too good to pass up.
And if the quality is up to snuff, then i will be ordering a custom black french ammo from their site for another watch.
Just to add a comment in here about us, we do everything by hand in the USA (San Diego, Ca). So by ordering one of our straps you are supporting an American company and helping to keep manufacturing alive in the USA which is a big part of our company. Ted Su is based out of Taiwan and D9 is out of Germany, for example.
Watching the Dangerous9 "Making of" video, I'm impressed by his shop and equipment and custom jigs and tooling.
https://vimeo.com/131193202
And check out the watch he's wearing. I tracked it down to Kaventgsmann, who seems to make one offs and small batches of extreme watches. Too expensive for me, but way cool.
You should contact Weiss Watch Company about supplying them. His whole thing is "Made in U.S.A." Or even "Made in Los Angeles [County]." He has a watch that, outside of the mainspring, he makes from scratch, with the help of subcontracting machine shops, completely in Los Angeles. He started a second company to sell the L.A.-made movements to other watchmakers, since they are ETA clones, and ETA is starting to cut back on selling movements outside of its Swiss group.
But I think his bands may be sourced from Shinola in Detroit, so he may be open to a San Diego supplier. Or he could lend you a workspace and you could make some bands in Los Angeles. Then all he'd need is a Los Angeles-based mainspring maker to be 100 percent Made in Los Angeles [County].
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