Panerai Leather Strap Luminor 26/26 Los Alamos Thick Tan

Description

About the Leather:  I created this amazing rustic brown Panerai strap 100% by hand, and hand stitched it as with all of my straps.  This is a distressed vegetable tanned leather with a sun burned finish, hot hot hot.  The strap features a nice reddish clay tan outer with visible fat lines and other distress marks.  The inner is a lighter shade of tan.  This is a medium-soft tempered strap that will conform nicely to your wrist.  Additionally, the pull-up characteristic of this leather is quite pronounced, which will lend a well-worn aesthetic to the strap with time.  The thread is a light beige color with a thick margin along the edges.

This rustic brown Panerai strap features one floating keeper and one fixed.  I have included a vintage style stainless steel pin buckle, sewn in place.  This is the perfect strap for those collectors who like to watch leather age and appreciate the subtle differences that show themselves over long periods of wear.  Above you may see this legendary Panerai strap paired nicely with 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 as pictured.

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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.