Panerai Luminor 47mm Leather Strap 26/26 “Oxblood Basic”

Description

About the Leather:    This oxblood Panerai strap is 100% made by hand and hand stitched, as with all of my straps. I selected a glossy vegetable tanned leather with a uniform finish for this project. If you are familiar with the darker OEM strap included with PAM372 models, then you will be familiar with this leather.  This 26mm oxblood Panerai strap has a nice medium brown tone with hints of red.  The backside is a much lighter color which creates the nice contrast you see between the top and sides of the strap. The glossy surface of this leather lends to it a quality of water resistance. For this project, I utilized light brown thread in a box stitched pattern. Additionally, this strap design features one fixed and one floating keeper.   Furthermore, if you prefer creased edges, please see the “OEM style” remix of this strap.

The edges of the strap are unfinished.  This strap ships by default with a vintage style brushed stainless pin buckle. Pictured above, you may see this amazing strap on the Panerai Luminor PAM00372.  The classic brown color with the nicely contrasting sides are really what set this strap apart.  Finally, the thickness of this strap is near OEM, and the temper of the leather is soft.  Wear it in comfort all day long.

Measurements:  This strap is 26/26, with a thickness of ~3mm.

What We Include:  Watch strap (top, bottom), one vintage style pin buckle, one wooden gift box.

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Additional Information:  For each Panerai model, I have a different design philosophy regarding straps. For the 47mm Luminor series case, as well as the Radiomir 1940 and the Submersible, my concept revolves around thickness and symmetry. When I create unique straps for the 47mm series cases, I take into account the overall thickness and temper of the leather that I am working with; more so than with Radiomir or even 44mm Luminor cases.

The 47mm Panerai case ships with a 26mm width strap. There is no escaping the mass of such a case and strap combination. My designs for this case take into account several features of the 47mm cases including the arches, curves, angles, and degrees of slope of not just the case, but the buckle as well. Instead of step-in away from or trying to minimize the bulk of the case, my goal is to embrace it. To reflect this, I work with thick leathers and make the straps for this model a minimum of 5.0mm thick on average.

Additionally, I like the make the strap keepers nice and wide. I box stitch most 47mm Panerai straps for extra strength. On rare occasions, I may employ open ended stitching. 47mm Panerai custom straps tend to be 5.0mm thick or greater. I usually utilize vintage style stainless pin buckles that are sewn in place. These pin buckles work especially well for straps that are thicker. Vintage style Panerai pin buckles also allow for more narrow holes for the buckle. Whats more, for these 26mm wide straps I mostly employ thicker thread with a larger margin in the stitching. I adjust spacing between stitches to be slightly wider than on my 44mm or Radiomir straps.

I perform the entire process by hand without templates or machines and use the absolute basic tools, the same tools that I used as a boot maker for nearly two decades. As a result of the hand made nature of these straps, no two are identical.