Watch Strap Repair

[Handstitched]

G'Day,

I don't always do watch strap repairs, but this one turned out quite well.  The client was  quite  happy too . 

The leather for the  main strap, x2 layers of 1.2mm veg tan , dyed , glued & stitched. The other straps x 1 layer of 1.2 mm VT , thinned out a bit bit to feed past the pins on the watch .  Machine : Pfaff 60, leather needle ,  thread: Gutermann  upholstery  . It has a bit more ' body' to it  than the regular industrial thread I use. 

The only thing was that I have big hands, and the buckles are small ...=  fiddly = sore hands , lol   

HS

 

[Samalan]

So you said it's a watch strap repair, but this looks like a new strap. Nice job 

[chuck123wapati]

you nailed that one!!

[PastorBob]

Great job on that!  lots of buckles for sure.  I love wearing watches, but my day job is in Food manufacturing and we can't wear rings, watches, or necklaces...

[Brokenolmarine]

Nice work.  The key here is the guy was happy.

[doubleh]

Looks like a replacement, not a repair to me. Nice work, whatever you want to call it.

[suzelle]

Lovely work you did there.

[Handstitched]

Thank you all  kindly for your feed back 

16 hours ago, doubleh said:

Looks like a replacement, not a repair to me

 

On 10/17/2022 at 6:49 PM, Samalan said:

So you said it's a watch strap repair

You're right, but lets just say I 'repaired' its appearance , or "repaired"  my ability to make watch straps, haven't done them in a while....  lol  , whatever    

I really should do some more , even just to practice.  

HS

[Bert03241]

Well as far a watch bands go thats just beautiful

[bland]

I'll go with repair.  Looks like some of the original parts may have been used (buckles).  Looks great.

[YinTx]

Came out pretty good!