“Bought both the Brown and Black Ribbed Horween Leather Strap (22mm) to go with my new Solent Timer Black edition. Both are very well made and work well with Solent. Very happy.”
“The Ribbed Black Horween Leather satrap bring another level of sophistication to your Marlowe. Plus it’s incredibly easy to change straps. Well thought out quality!”
“I got the black leather strap together with the same one in a tan colour. Both look great on the Spectre Black Edition. I am glad I did that move. I can also use either strap on different watches which also looks very nice. The quality of the bands feels nice and hope they’ll last a while. Cheers, and keep up the good work.”
“Perfectly suits the watch and looks so good looking down on your wrist with the watch body in profile and the classy art deco clasp showing. Wont be long before the market is flooded with after market ribbed straps but I doubt they'll be able to catch wild Horweens so easily in Hong Kong!!!”
“I ordered another black Horseen because having used one for months with the Atlantic, wear damaged the area where the holes are. Have since used the rubber strap on the Morag, which wears well.
It occurs to me that straps are a carefully chosen accompaniment to the watch, but which need to combine design, comfort and durability. Alternatives are metal, and the use of modern materials to optimise that combo. Since metal bracelets if that’s the right term, must be too expensive for your price range if tuned to each model, but a 20/22mm generic might be a cost effective entre into that field.
As for modern materials, rubber offers both design and colour options, but there must be other choices, eg woven cloth etc. It would be interesting to study modern materials to see if a distinctive but feasible one exists, that gives the 3 characteristics, and is cheap enough to use. Hope these thoughts are useful, even knowing you spend ages designing every minute detail of you products.”
