Leather strap on a diver. Sacrilegious?!
I know a lot of people feel it's sacrilegious to put a leather strap on a dive watch. Online I kept seeing lot of white dial black bezel rolex Daytonas with a leather strap and thought it looked beautiful. Decided to give that color combo a try on my Christopher Ward trident pro 300. I get the same look which I love. It's a dive watch and people may think it's wrong to leather up a diver. Curious on how other people feel.
How do you feel about leather straps on a diver? Sacrilegious? Who cares as long as the wearer likes it?
PS, if you don't own a Christopher Ward, I couldn't recommend anything more than getting one. Such an extreme quality to value ratio, that I don't see anywhere else in the horology world.
Always on the hunt for the next watch, never ending itch to scratch.. Strapaholic. May need real therapy for watch addiction
It's fine...divers are mostly used in desk diving anyways.
If you're not actually diving, why not?
Demanding a diver has to be on a waterproof strap at all times is just LARPing....
I bought a Baltic diver on a Beads of Rice bracelet. It’s nice but I think it looks nicer on leather. The bracelet seems to take attention away from the beautiful watch. I bought the diver because I love timing bezels; I don’t dive.
I bought a Baltic diver on a Beads of Rice bracelet. It’s nice but I think it looks nicer on leather. The bracelet seems to take attention away from the beautiful watch. I bought the diver because I love timing bezels; I don’t dive.
My motto is simple: I wear what I love and the view is perfect 🤙❤️
It's fine, as long as you change it when you went swimming. I'm also planning to put my Kamasu on a stingray strap, as a revenge for what they did to my homie Steve
To me it all depends on what dive watch you put the leather strap on, yours looks great but if I put a leather strap on my mm300 it just looks awful.
Diving, not diving... who cares, I like the leather look on any watch and if it's weathered, beaten and frayed... then even better. The stories and experiences of owning AND using a watch is why we do this... own it , embrace it.... wear whatever f#$@&&n strap, bracelet, piece of scrap that makes ya happy, BUT create a memory and hopefully get it dirty. The watches we buy are 1000% more capable than we allow them to be + its fun to clean and scrape them to their original state.
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Looking good! I may have to look into getting a similar strap for my Trident Pro 300.
Hi Brandon, I think it's fine as long as you don't have regular impulses to jump into the local river or fountain whilst walking past.👍😉😃
It's a CW strap. Vintage oak. The camel one looks good on it too
Never worn leather, veggie since 1982- but if it makes you smile then go for it. Life's too short to worry!
I’ve done it twice now and happy with the look. Casual/elegant simultaneously.
Despite what some might think, collecting watches isn't a religion and there is no church of the leatherless diver's. Therefore - sacrilege is out of the question in this case.
You do what you want to do and if anyone objects you can always point out that it's a nice day and he is free to go out and fly a kit.
I’m not a huge fan either but since most of us don’t actually go diving or even get into a pool with our watches I think it’s totally fine 😌