Panerai Luminor 47mm Strap 26/26 “Epic Tan” Super Soft

Description

About the Leather:  I created this epic super soft tan Panerai strap 100% by hand and hand stitched it, as with all of my straps. This is a distressed vegetable tanned leather with a very soft temper. Being a distressed leather, the top finish will show signs of wear, scuff marks, fat lines, grain creases and color variations.  These elements add character to the leather.  This super soft tan Panerai strap wears very comfortably on the wrist. The color is a whiskey tan tone but shows variation across the surface. The inner is a lighter tone than the surface. I utilized beige thread in a box stitched patter. This strap design features one fixed and one floating keeper.  The edges of the strap feature a soft crease.

This strap ships by default with a vintage style brushed stainless pin buckle.  Additionally, the color palette of this tan Panerai strap ensures a fit with all dial and lume colors. Pictured above, you may see this handmade strap on the Panerai Luminor PAM00372.  This strap will age beautifully as you wear it and therefore will become an essential part of your strap collection.

Measurements:  This strap is 26/26, with a thickness of ~3.8mm.

What We Include:  Watch strap (top, bottom), brushed 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 bucklessewn 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. Furthermore, for these 26mm wide straps I mostly employ thicker thread with a larger margin in the stitching. In addition, 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. Finally, as a result of the hand made nature of these straps, no two are identical.