Don't Buy a Watch Strap Until You See This.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- Buying a watch strap online can be hard. Is it well made? Is the color correct? Is the material a good quality? And will it fit your watch?
Choose the wrong strap, and you've wasted time and money. Choose the right strap, and you increase the value of your watch and make the watch feel like new.
To answer these questions and more, we sat down with Larry Schechterman (@watchsleuth), the mastermind behind the watch straps sold by many watch TH-camrs, watch dealers, microbrands, and famous auction houses. We can't name names, but you definitely know who they are.
We go hands-on with vintage, modern, and bespoke straps to talk about what's changed over the years and how to navigate today's complicated strap market.
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We will need another video with this man!! One on leather strap maintenance, cleaning and storage.
Use shave cream.
I second that👍
A part 2 video would be great. Covering these topics perhaps:
1. Curved strap spring bars or not?
2. Taper from lugs to pin buckle. One size or two sizes down is best?
3. Stitching to 12:18 match the dial color or not?
4. Rubber straps vs leather.
Thanks.
All except #1 are personal choice. I prefer no taper at all. But I know I’m in the minority.
So much patience and love on this gentleman. I felt like if my uncle was explaining me. Great video!
One thing that is very hard to find nowadays is straps made for bent springbars. Some watches were designed to use bent springbars, yet the straps are near impossible to source
When I encountered a bent spring bar I was beyond frustrated. It was on a modern IWC portofino. Good riddance to them.
You shouldn't have too much trouble finding straps for curved spring bars. Take a look at Delugs and Veblenist just to name a couple.
Fpjourne
You can source bent spring bars. You can source a specific plier to bend spring bars. I wonder if doing this spring bar. Also wonder if the springbars that are bent are bent the same way as the pliers would. Are the strap designed differently to accept a bent spring bar?
I bend my bars with a couple of pliers; I use quick release and regulars, the only variation is that if you require a pronounced curve you need to use a bar 1 or even 2 mm longer to compensate the curve
How do we contact Larry to order straps?
I wish this was longer and had gotten into the G10/NATO/Zulu discussion including the terms and materials - I've personally been going with leather NATO's but often cutting away the watch keeper send pass piece. My next endeavor is to make my own
What an informative video! I feel I know a lot about watches (and straps), and I learned some new things. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Larry! Great discussion. Very entertaining and informative.
Would say 12 min is not enough! nteresting strap at the start, also really like the versatility of the white dial gold tone watches when it comes to straps.
I love this upload! Very informative. Thanks for the share!!
Good stuff. Keep making these great videos!
Very informative and entertaining video! Great job as always Mr. Hendricks! 😎
It will be great to listen how different materials last and look over a period of time. For instance, horse skin vs alligator.
Wonderful discussion. Thank you!
OMG.. The best and most informative video. Pretty detailed❤
Very interesting and could go a lot further. I personally am into Tropic straps, all the little nuances into between original Tropics and modern Tropics.
I like that they are textured like material, flexible, breathable and utilitarian. To me the perfect blend between dressy leather and a nato for the perfect travelling strap.
I've tried and tested (nearly) them all and for those that care, Meraud make the very best modern Tropic.
Larry is the man ! The true king of watch straps 🙏🏻
Loved this episode!!
Interesting presentation. Thanks guys
Great episode. I’ve got some wonderful watches that get less (or I dare say don’t get any!) wrist time because of the strap or bracelet. I need to rectify that.
Great information. This gentleman must have more to tell us. Invite him again
Thanks Thomas for having Larry as a guest. Let's have follow up sessions with him. Maybe a livestream?
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Very interesting video! Thanks!
More, please! I LOVE watch straps and can’t get enough of this content!
Would enjoy a much longer deep dive into straps w Larry
Good video. Very helpful. How about doing one on deployment straps? Good ones? Bad ones? Or none at all?
The man behind the curtain is finally unveiled! Larry is the best!
I would like to give Larry my business!
Excellent Video! Do you have one on bracelets by any chance?
Very informative
My issue with most straps is the lack of length options. As a man with a 6.2 inch wrist, most straps just don't fit me. Everyone uses the standard 120+80 layout when I would need a 110+70.
I can't use the 2nd keeper (and I love the look of the tip of the strap sticking through both keepers) and my wrist is a bit over 7", but but a bit flat, hence I need at least 125+75mm strap on a relatively big watch to have any hope of this looking right.
And a lot of 125+75mm straps are in fact 123+73 or something like that and these few milimiters can make all the difference.
Great video
Does Larry have a site? How do I buy straps from him?
I am looking for a nice round scale shiny dark brown with nuances crocodile strap and I have an hard time finding one
I like lizard straps more than croc ones because it has more detail
He is the strap master. 🎉
Why want this video an hour long !! Very interesting
Very lovely since watch straps are my new interest.
I slash all my straps and shove a quick release bar on them, it baffles me why it’s not standard.
Some people feel like the quick release are not as secure and might come undone. But I agree with you, the quick release is better.
I have a sin, or we shell Coravan strap that is single piece, and it is the most comfortable and soft and durable scrap that I own. I feel like it is never going to be lemonade because it does not have layers, and it’s honestly more comfortable than even as you believe bracelet or a silicone strap.
we need 2 more videos from this man on NATO, Zulu etc.
Where is the best place to get a 21 mm strap?
Ive noticed cheap watch straps have this grey middle layer and they ALWAYS come apart
Acrylic Glass & Nylon Strap Watch
It luks Trendy & Casual
All i need is a color guide for watch strap
problems i see with watch staps , 1 instead of bucke the could use the same system as metal bracelet and the hole in wher the buckel is the point wher the strape brake 2 the leather is often to fin and will brake after 2-3years , 3 thows quick relice baret are quick way to lose or brake you watch , 4 they will often use the cheapest leather they could find , they are made to falle and brake after 2-3 years ,
Larry is so cool 😎
Larry making his TH-cam debut?! He’s the best.
Would you know, how could I buy one of his straps?
The angled stitching on a nice quality strap just looks off. I inquired about this and the manufacturer stated that the stitches are angled because they are hand sewn. They said that machine stitching is straight. Is it really true that hand stitched cannot be straight, inline stitches. Thanks!
The finest European factories only do straight stitching. Angled stitching is mostly done in Asia
@@larryschechterman3063 is this a hand stitch vs. machine stitch issue also? It difficult to understand how a machine would not stitch a perfectly straight line.
@@YorkiepoocharlieHonestly, I find it hard to believe that it isn’t just b.s. marketing and more about having a superiority complex. It’s so much easier to do straight stitches, so I’m not even sure how this is “best quality.” A slanted pattern would be harder to replicate with a machine, and I’d argue that the string needs to be tightened more with each pass (it definitely would take more time to perform).
@@jbrent733 I now have seen numerous videos of hand stitched watch straps. They use a pouch with angled stakes to make the holes. Of course the stitches will look angled. The weird thing is that they don’t have the mirror image angle for the other side of the strap. I agree that a straight stitch would easier and obviously symmetrical. That is how a machine would stitch it.
And Apple says ‘no leather’ possibly misguided 😂
“They made straps out of anything that moved.” Homie my fellow Mexicans have been doing the same since the day they gained their independence. 😂
That is not herringbone, but rather a woven (plain weave) pattern at a 45 degree angle.
This video only discusses leather straps. Should be included in the title
Please make a video about Velle Alexander. I buy all my straps exclusively from him. He is a true artisan.
Straps are consumables and you’re going to replace them over the years. I just buy ones I like and replace every so often.
I've had so many of those quick release tabs break from my baboon thumbnail that I actually prefer the springbar tool for the most part now.
I own many watches just so I can buy more straps.
I almost fell asleep, waiting for the brand name. So, whats the brandname?.
Hey! Hope you caught up on your sleep 🙂 He's a white label supplier for various retailers.
“Dont buy a watch strap before you watch this.”
…too late.
So many double entendres!
Shit !!! I had bought watch straps before watching this video 😔
Taper taper taper he never mentioned it
Because that is a stylistic point. Plenty of cheap papery leather straps taper but are still poorly constructed.
Whould have been nice show the difference of the construction better didn't shaw any difference, en this so called rembordey?
Got to be honest, I am skeptical about the quick release spring bars. Never trusted their quality compared to the OEM bars that come with a high-end watch.
I only use quick release since 2017; the variation is not on the quality of the bar, but on the quality of the leather and construction; I only use standard bars if I will never switch the strap, but for my regular watches, Rolex included, quick release offer real flexibility without damaging the lugs
A good leather strap should be soft from the beginning, the quality of the leather needs to be nice and of course it needs to fit the design of the watch and also 4mm smaller than from the lugs of the watch. At the moment I really like after market straps from Molequin, they vintage watches.