Panerai Leather Strap for Luminor 26/26 Burple (Sewn)

Description

About the Leather:  For this wine color Panerai strap, I selected a soft leather with a brownish purple upper and a lighter matte burgundy inner.  The color shifts depending on the lighting.  It can look slightly purple, slightly brown, or the tone of a nice wine.  The light colored inner gives a nice contrast and the strap is finished off with a graphite grey stitching.  This strap is designed with one floating keeper and one fixed keeper.  This is a comfortable strap due to the pliability of the leather.  As with all of my straps, this strap is 100% handmade and hand stitched with care and attention to detail.

This version is designed with a sewn in vintage style pin buckle.  Don’t hesitate to send an email if you would like a custom stitching color or any other modifications. Pictured above, you may see this soft wine color Panerai strap on the Panerai Luminor PAM00372.

Measurements:  This strap is 26/26, with a thickness of ~5mm.

What we Include: Watch strap (top, bottom), sewn 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. 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.