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Vachetta leather is an Italian leather that’s traditionally left untreated for a strong patina over time. Popularized by brands like Louis Vuitton and Coach, it plays the starring role in these camo watch straps, which are available in a wide range of colors and sizes to match your favorite timepieces Read More
Mine was the correct size, but the holes was punches on the long side, I usually order this size and use the middle whole, now i use the last one. The quality of the leather is amazing, I would order more from this brand if another strap hits massdrop.
Mine is too long (no fault of the strap, I am not good at ordering where I have to specify sizing) but it is gorgeous. I got the Woodland Camo. Stitching and finish on it are top notch, one of the nicest leathers I own.
Now all I need is a leather punch!
Vintage1982BenzMy District Leather strap was too long (I put it on a watch with a large lug-to-lug.
What I did was buy a whole set of Chinese hole punches from Amazon. They were really cheap, and I think I destroyed the one I used by punching only one hole, but that one hole was fine, and now I have a bunch of other single-use punches of different sizes.
Vulture also sells straps with long, racetrack-shaped holes. In that case, I don't know what to do.
I took your advice and ordered one of each color, and they arrived today. Man, are these nice. The patterns are different, with the woodland being most obviously camo, the red moderately camo, and the blue coming off as more of an abstract pattern. They are nice and chunky, calipering out at 3.6 to 3.8 mm. They are the wrap-over, full-grain top surface front and back style, so they should be less vulnerable to sweat stink infection than the raw back style, especially if coated with conditioner from time to time The edge finishing is beautiful.
I absolutely love the incongruousness of a kitschy pattern, camo, on absolutely top-quality full-grain Italian leather. How crazy is that?
I put the "red" one on an orange Orient dive watch, and it works perfectly. The blue is on a Kickstarter dive watch with blue hands and bezel indices. The forest is on a black Aragon dive watch. I'm sure I'll move them around from time to time, but I'm in a leather-on-dive irony mood now.
So at this point, between three Tochigis and three Camos, I have six Vulture straps. I got just one at first to verify sizing, then went all out on the next two drops. I guess I'm out of the market for straps for a while, unless some really interesting leather appears, since I don't have enough watches to use what I have ... well, maybe I could still use another 20 mm strap.
I also have one District Leather strap from a drop here, a light natural color on a blackout Glycine Incursore, which looks great, but I'm not in love with the raw back. (Rumor has it the Vulture guy may have made these also under contract.}
I have one Da Luca and one Mankey, both of the Zulu-esque variety, and, well, I just don't like that style of strap, and they feel so flimsy, having to be so thin to thread behind the spring bars.
The way I do this is to find a watch with a similar leather strap and measure it. The buckle is not included in the measurement. If the watch strap you own is not the ideal length, add or substract. The places where you could still go wrong are (1) lug-to-lug makes a difference, so if the target watch is different, adjust, and (2) the hole pattern is different from strap to strap, and here you just go on faith. You can buy leather punches, somewhere between 2 mm and 2.5 mm and add a hole if the strap is too long. I recommend the dedicated size kind that you hammer, not the kind that look like pliers.
I have a 7" wrist, so most places have a 120/80mm to cover me. Watch size, and hole count will affect fit range.
Here's the chart I go by when I order straps:
Regular Length 120/75mm fits wrists approximately 6 1/2" to 7 1/2"
Short Length 105/70mm fits wrists approximately 5 3/4" to 6 3/4"
Long Length 135/80mm fits wrists approximately 7 1/4" to 8 1/4"