this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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It's not quite easy getting a photo while not only wearing it, but also showing the front plus a bit of the backside of the watchband at the same time. It's a snap-on design, where I spent like a week shaping and sizing the leather to my wrist, including water shrink shaping and sizing, before considering it properly finished.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

It looks awesome man. In highschool I did something like this that just looked okay... Like a national watch. I didn't have any money but my dad worked with leather. So I made myself a strap. I found my watch in a pile of broken things at a swap meet. Next thing you know I got a nice looking watch. Yours is way better than anything I could have tried to pretend to make.