November 25, 2024 • 20 mins
In this episode we talk about Lydia finally discovering the joy of changing watch straps, and our experience with Delugs, our favorite watch strap company, which I've been buying straps from for 4 years, and they've been making straps and leather goods now for six!
NOTE: Delugs has provided us with watch straps for free but have not paid us and have no input into what we do with or say about the products they have given us.
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(00:08):
Welcome to this watch LIFE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Boo. And today we're talking about
straps. We are so I have gone deep into
the world of watch strap change.Yeah, it's been, it's been
something new for you because so.
OK, I've always OK. I since starting watch
(00:30):
collecting, I've very much been what, like a purist.
I'm like the watch that the strap that comes on it is the
one. Is what belongs.
On it or you're not even Yeah, or like just too lazy to change
it, just like very. Yeah, I I like how you you
position yourself as some sort of purist when it was more like.
You just, I just didn't want to do it.
(00:50):
And I mean, The thing is, I guess what I didn't understand
until recently and which we're going to talk about is how much
of a difference it actually makes.
Yeah. I saw you changing straps all
the time. Sometime you were like just
changing, I felt. Like non-stop.
And I was like on a trip. I was like, this is so much, but
(01:14):
you know what, now I see it. Although I will say I'm not to
you on changing straps tons of Times Now I have straps on all
my watches that I really like. I'll leave them for a while.
Well, no, no, but I I, I have slowed it down quite a bit.
Unless it's the right day. Some days you just need
different straps, and I think different straps do different
(01:36):
things and they say something different and they also give you
different levels of comfort. But we're not talking about
yeah, we're going too deep rightnow.
Yes, we're going to talk about Deluxe today.
There are 6th anniversary just passed.
Ken and pay are absolutely amazing.
They're are the actual first people who reached out to us so
early when we started the podcast and we're like, can we
(01:59):
send you something? Can we work together?
So they sent us a bunch of straps from all different lines,
and when they have new drops, they've been sending us a few
new ones and we wanted to talk about our favorites and also the
fact that I like straps now. You have learned to embrace the
(02:20):
joy that is changing straps and feeling like you have.
A new watch? Yeah, I will say I guess my
unfortunate motto in my collecting was just buy new
watch. It's not the most sustainable.
It's not sustainable and it's not smart, definitely not
(02:45):
responsible. But in my first, like my the
hoarding part of my collecting, it was just like, gather,
gather. Yeah.
So, OK. When we talked to Deluxe, like
one of the things we talked about was like how do we get
Lydia to even just try out some straps?
And so you and pay picked out some straps for some watches.
(03:06):
Yes, Pay actually picked them all out for me and I just
trusted her. Yes, and I will say the best
part is that some of those were things I wouldn't have paired
and they actually became my favorites.
So this made me think about straps differently too, because
they really changed so much of the watch.
And sometimes when I had previously been looking at
(03:28):
straps and I had like before ever talking to Ken or Pay or
Deluxe, I mean, we, we have a lot of deluxe stuff.
Yeah, we've been buying them since 2020.
And you were always like, pick astrap and then I would go and I
would look and I would try all the different ones and then I
would be like I. Don't know not try like on
yourself. No on their like watch Finder.
(03:50):
Yeah, like the strap Finder. The strap Finder and so for me
it just always, I mostly paired the watch with a strap that was
slightly similar to what it already had on, but like that I
liked a little more and I found that actually what I really like
is a strap that's different thanwhat.
(04:13):
Offers something. Yeah, that offers something new
because that's where you get this newness and like, wow, this
is now a very unique look on my.Watch.
Well, OK, OK, OK, OK. So I feel like as I've thought
about this, I think there's likewhen it comes to choosing color,
because that's mainly what I'm going to personally talk about
(04:33):
here. It's like there's three
approaches that I take. OK, OK.
And I did it as the three C's, OK, because I love doing that.
Yes, I do too. It's easier to remember.
So complimentary, OK Contrastingor color matched 3C's, OK.
I like it and those do work, so this is it is a good frame for
(04:55):
how to think about straps. I always went with just
whatever. Whatever it came with.
Whatever the watch brand picked.Wait, why am I doing voices now?
You're. Doing that same old timey voice
that I. Whatever it came with is what it
should have. I I don't even know what that's
supposed to be. OK, so, so complimentary
(05:17):
contrasting and color matched. OK.
And I thought through for today to talk about my three favorite
straps right now, and I picked one of each of those types to
illustrate. Well, you made-up the types, so
yeah. Wait a second, this is a well
established like there's like a book about.
It the three CS of straps of watch straps.
(05:38):
Yesterday, So the three CS of watch strap pairing, OK, we're
going to start with color matched.
Well, no, but in your three CS, you started with complimentary.
Oh no, there is no order to them.
What actually they're the three codes.
Actually they all start with Co anyway.
OK, so I'm going to start with color match and I have been
(06:03):
wearing for months now my Grand Seiko Taisetsu, which has this
beautiful cloud like stormy Graydial on deluxe is Himalayan
white Gator strap. And we had this whole thing.
We did talk about it on the podcast once about there's no
Himalayan Gators. Like.
Oh, actually, there are. Gators and crocodiles and stuff.
(06:25):
Yeah. But this strap, even though it's
it's white and Gray and so it actually matches the dial very,
very well because it it kind of just flows into the titanium and
the Gray dial. And so you get this almost
monotone look. And I really like that, that
that has been my favorite strap pairing for that watch.
(06:49):
I haven't taken it off. Don't, I mean I would say
typically. So then probably for me color
matched would be the strap that mostly just comes on the watch
many times. So that's what I'm most used.
To for myself blue dial, then itcomes with a blue.
Strap, yeah, or a black dial, black strap, you know, So for me
(07:11):
that. Strap we could keep going.
Yeah, OK. Anyway, but for me, I think
that's what I was most used to, yes, which is why I think it's
cool to kind of move to the other ones.
Yes, your other C's so. Next, I'll talk about
complimentary and you have experience with this because
borrowed my watch, yes, that I had my complimentary strip.
(07:32):
And this is from Deluxe's new very recent drop, like last
month on the Otsuka Low tech number six, which just won its
GPHG Challenge Prize award. Everyone heard about my
screaming. Yes, yes, the screaming.
Rob Nudd called it on on the Real Time Show podcast, he said.
I yelped. And I think that was really, I
think if you listen real. Close, you hear the Yelp.
(07:55):
So you are wearing my Otsuka look low tech #6 in the room
when the GPHG was announced and it was on Deluxe's olive green,
they just released a sailcloth like strap.
It's not made of sailcloth, it'sactually made of FKM rubber.
And so they've taken the best properties of rubber and the
(08:18):
look of sailcloth and put them together for a really
comfortable strap That looks very cool.
It was very comfortable and the whole time people complimented
the watch. And then they'd be like, I love
that strap, like the color and the look.
Of it and everyone was looking at your wrist because you were
wearing. And winning watch and I was
screeching. And they loved the strap.
Yeah, so it worked out very well.
(08:39):
So that olive green with this very industrial look, brushed
metal, like very complementary, even though, you know, I guess
silver and olive green could be complementary colors.
And the last one contrasting, I put there also new black Pilot
CTS strap from the new collection on my Tudor Black Bay
(09:02):
Chrono ink. And the ink dial has, because
it's a little panda. It's a pink panda, I thought.
We called it Piggy. Big Snout and with a black
strap, it completely changes that watch.
When you take it off of the jubilee or the five link Tudor
bracelet and you put it on that black strap, that contrast that
(09:25):
it creates between the dial and the strap, it makes the dial pop
so much more interesting. The three CS.
Yeah. But I was thinking actually
sometimes some of them could be combined because.
Oh, is that the 4th C combined? Combined, yes.
Totally planned that. Combined well because so for me,
(09:50):
I think the watch the two my twofavorite and ones that you
actually watched me change and kind of like.
You know, actually changed tracks.
Yes, well, that's also one of the nice things about Quick,
quick release spring bars. It's so much it makes it easier
for you. Yeah, but for me, so combined
(10:11):
would be my show. Hard skeleton is on the Lagoon
blue crocodile strap. The reason I liked it is because
it matches the blued hands and the cabochon perfectly.
So that would be, you know, you could put contrasting or color
matched. I would.
Which one would you think is that?
To me, that's contrast. Contrast because.
The majority color of the watch is gold.
(10:34):
Wait, but that's why, yeah, it'salso complementary.
It's like a literal complementary color, yellow and
blue, like the golden blue, so. True, contrasting and
complementary. The 4th C come by.
Any more CS? Are we going to go to 5?
No, I don't think so. And then I also so my Nomos
(10:55):
Tetra 27 karat. I've had this watch.
So this was the one that really kind of transformed my thinking
about straps because the the show part skeleton came on a
terrible like cheap strap. So when I put on this beautiful
strap, it it didn't transform itbecause I was always like, I
hate that other strap It's goingto be.
(11:17):
Amazing. It's not like it was already
good and it transformed it into something just different.
It's like it took it from you didn't like it at all.
No, I wasn't. Wearing it, this is.
Amazing. Yes, this is amazing, but with
my normal Tatra 27 carat, which you gave me for my 30th
birthday, so seven years ago, and I've worn it a lot over the
(11:39):
years. It's beautiful.
It has this really nice like brushing on the dial and I've
worn it a lot, but I never I mean, in the past few years I
haven't worn it that much. When you first got it for me, I
wore it a lot and then I obviously as I got into
collecting, it's like there's somany choices and there's only so
(11:59):
many times you can wear it, you know, so too many watches, watch
people problems, but pay paid for me from their leotelier
range. It has this beautiful like edge
painting and it kind of has this.
It's like a brown color with lighter contrasts on it.
(12:21):
Which also I didn't realize thatkeepers are the little loops.
Yeah, little keepers. Yeah, I know.
I never knew that was. The name, yeah.
I think it's really cute and so the keepers were also
contrasting and so this like brown, tan.
Honestly, I would not have paired this together for myself.
(12:42):
I wouldn't have picked it because when I saw even.
Well, you told me. I'm not sure about.
This I'm not sure about the pairing because it felt like it
might be too much for the this like simple watch, but honestly
it just sets off the dial in a new way.
It, it really compliments it so well.
(13:02):
And especially in the fall, I'vebeen wearing that watch so much
more. I mean more than I have in years
because and then I get a ridiculous amount of comments
when I post an image of it because people are like, that
just looks so cool. It looks super fall.
And that also made me realize I would like to change straps more
based on seasons because I do really care about that's the
(13:26):
fifth seasons, seasons I think Ibroke moo.
I I can't agree with that as theI no, I'm sorry.
We need to move on. I wish you could see Moo's face
(13:48):
right now because he's actually having like a robot shut down.
He like can't function over this.
Anyway, anyway, I agree with seasonal especially because in
the summer that's typically not where I want to wear leather
strap. I did wear the leather strap,
the Gator strap on my grand Seiko all summer, but not if I
(14:11):
ever thought I was going to get sweaty.
That's when I'd rather have rubber through the winter
though. Then I love leather straps and
spring and fall. I actually meant more like
colors and like textures. So, you know, suede in the, you
know, more like holiday seasons and and lighter leather colors
(14:31):
in the in the summer, but also we could do that sweaty thing.
That's the. Sweat the. 6C That's why you
you're talking about. Oh no, you're talking about
sweat, not me. This is this.
Is going horribly now. No, OK.
My book You've ruined the book that I wrote about the three
C's. So I would just like to say the
(14:53):
other day we were listening to the Warren and Wound podcast and
Zach Kazan talked about how moreand more he's been thinking.
And this is something you and I have talked about so much is
like using our like what we purchase to be with brands that
we love, with people that we love.
And for me, like watching Ken and pay build up deluxe over the
(15:19):
years, but also just, you know, recently they had their six year
anniversary. Yeah.
And they posted all of these photos of them like being so
young, going and looking at different Leathers.
It was only six years ago, but they looked like little babies
to me. Because some of it was even
before they started, yeah. And before they started the
company. To me, I love anything that's
(15:40):
founded in passion and I know that so many of us are looking
for that like passion of someonewanting to just make things
better and like, oh, I didn't find what I wanted, so I made
it. And that's why I that's why I
really am a huge deluxe fan. Yeah, so I already, you know,
like I said, I found them in 2020, just found them online,
you know, on a forum or something.
I don't remember how ordered thestraps, loved them.
(16:03):
But looking at the photos that they posted for their six year
anniversary and seeing that likefound that kind of like startup
journey, them crashing out on a literally piles of straps that
they were packing because of a Black Friday sale they did.
And it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah,I it's, yeah, that's, that's the
(16:24):
life. It's really awesome.
So they're having a a big sale for Black Friday.
It starts now, goes through December 3rd I would say.
I just wanted to say think aboutgifts.
Because. I've been.
Makes sense? You've been shopping.
Shopping and thinking about Christmas I you gave me for my
birthday a few years ago. The 8 watch deluxe case and it's
(16:49):
my absolute. That's my hands down favorite.
The brown Yeah, that's where youlight brown favorite watches.
I put my favorite watches. Yeah, my favorite watches are
always in that in that case. Watch Case, Yeah.
And then actually for my 10 yearanniversary at work, you like
the team wanted to get me something and you suggested.
(17:09):
Well, they came and said it should, maybe it could be watch
related, and I was like, I know exactly.
Oh yeah, they said watch and travel related and so.
And they got me the prism trio case.
It was in an older color way of grey green, but again, just a
really cool case For me, it's super important that the
(17:30):
pillows, the cushions fit my small yeah, straps and and
bracelets and they always because.
They're expanding and like they,they really come packed down
small, but they also my favoritething about that one and the
reason that I I I told them to buy.
Yeah. Oh, that.
One, I didn't pay for it, but the reason that I, I, I told
them they should get this one ofall the watch rolls that existed
(17:52):
out there is because you can remove each watch independent of
the others. Yeah, they're not all clipped
together, which happens a lot with watch rolls.
It was, it's actually kind of wild to think that 'cause that
was three years ago that my colleagues knew I was that into
watches. Yeah, look at me now.
I've got my own watch podcast. Only they knew what they were
supporting at the time. Oh wow.
(18:15):
And then Deluxe actually sent methe two watch holder, which is
in the same colorway, the brown and light brown.
And I love that that's the one. I'll I'm just whenever I'm
traveling, it's so easy to throwin my bag.
You don't travel with eight watches.
No, definitely not. Which is a good thing, yes.
Yes, not going to do it 3. Max one on the wrist, 2 in your
(18:38):
little little thing that I thinkthat's perfect.
So, OK, one last thing I wanted to say about the lugs.
Besides the fact that we just think they're great people, we
want to support them as people, I also do think like there's not
a lot of innovation going on in the watch or in the watch strap
space over the past, you know, century, like there, there has
(19:02):
been innovation. You know, now there's quick
release spring bars there like things have gotten better and
probably manufacturing processeshave gotten better and like
quality overall, like there, there there's just so much more
choice. There's more companies making
strap, there's all that, but when it comes to actually just
making things better, you don't see it that often.
(19:23):
I don't know if Deluxe invented this, but I know that they've
recently made a change with how their strap clasp is and it's
got a new shape and the pin has a new shape and the way it is,
you got to look it up on the website the way it is.
Basically it's designed to make your strap last longer so it
(19:45):
doesn't tear up the hole and it also doesn't bend the strap so
much, which technically is bad for the business.
Because. If they make their straps last
longer, people don't need to buyas many straps.
But I do like what you know whenyou go to the AD and you're like
trying on a leather strap watch the the the leather strap always
(20:08):
looks wrecked because everyone has put it in a different hole
and it just kind of like it. It just wrecks them and this.
Like, because it's on that whiteGator strap of mine, it doesn't
do that at all. It doesn't bend the strap when
you put it on. And I, I think that's, that's
just really cool. Yeah.
So innovation, yeah, I think they're doing some cool stuff.
(20:31):
Yeah, and a note is that Deluxe sent us some of their products
for free, but they didn't pay usto say anything, ask us to say
anything, and they don't get to hear this before it goes out.
Actually, they don't even know this episode is happening.
Surprise. But have a great week, everyone.
Bye.
Welcome to this watch LIFE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Boo. And today we're talking about
straps. We are so I have gone deep into
the world of watch strap change.Yeah, it's been, it's been
something new for you because so.
OK, I've always OK. I since starting watch
(00:30):
collecting, I've very much been what, like a purist.
I'm like the watch that the strap that comes on it is the
one. Is what belongs.
On it or you're not even Yeah, or like just too lazy to change
it, just like very. Yeah, I I like how you you
position yourself as some sort of purist when it was more like.
You just, I just didn't want to do it.
(00:50):
And I mean, The thing is, I guess what I didn't understand
until recently and which we're going to talk about is how much
of a difference it actually makes.
Yeah. I saw you changing straps all
the time. Sometime you were like just
changing, I felt. Like non-stop.
And I was like on a trip. I was like, this is so much, but
(01:14):
you know what, now I see it. Although I will say I'm not to
you on changing straps tons of Times Now I have straps on all
my watches that I really like. I'll leave them for a while.
Well, no, no, but I I, I have slowed it down quite a bit.
Unless it's the right day. Some days you just need
different straps, and I think different straps do different
(01:36):
things and they say something different and they also give you
different levels of comfort. But we're not talking about
yeah, we're going too deep rightnow.
Yes, we're going to talk about Deluxe today.
There are 6th anniversary just passed.
Ken and pay are absolutely amazing.
They're are the actual first people who reached out to us so
early when we started the podcast and we're like, can we
(01:59):
send you something? Can we work together?
So they sent us a bunch of straps from all different lines,
and when they have new drops, they've been sending us a few
new ones and we wanted to talk about our favorites and also the
fact that I like straps now. You have learned to embrace the
(02:20):
joy that is changing straps and feeling like you have.
A new watch? Yeah, I will say I guess my
unfortunate motto in my collecting was just buy new
watch. It's not the most sustainable.
It's not sustainable and it's not smart, definitely not
(02:45):
responsible. But in my first, like my the
hoarding part of my collecting, it was just like, gather,
gather. Yeah.
So, OK. When we talked to Deluxe, like
one of the things we talked about was like how do we get
Lydia to even just try out some straps?
And so you and pay picked out some straps for some watches.
(03:06):
Yes, Pay actually picked them all out for me and I just
trusted her. Yes, and I will say the best
part is that some of those were things I wouldn't have paired
and they actually became my favorites.
So this made me think about straps differently too, because
they really changed so much of the watch.
And sometimes when I had previously been looking at
(03:28):
straps and I had like before ever talking to Ken or Pay or
Deluxe, I mean, we, we have a lot of deluxe stuff.
Yeah, we've been buying them since 2020.
And you were always like, pick astrap and then I would go and I
would look and I would try all the different ones and then I
would be like I. Don't know not try like on
yourself. No on their like watch Finder.
(03:50):
Yeah, like the strap Finder. The strap Finder and so for me
it just always, I mostly paired the watch with a strap that was
slightly similar to what it already had on, but like that I
liked a little more and I found that actually what I really like
is a strap that's different thanwhat.
(04:13):
Offers something. Yeah, that offers something new
because that's where you get this newness and like, wow, this
is now a very unique look on my.Watch.
Well, OK, OK, OK, OK. So I feel like as I've thought
about this, I think there's likewhen it comes to choosing color,
because that's mainly what I'm going to personally talk about
(04:33):
here. It's like there's three
approaches that I take. OK, OK.
And I did it as the three C's, OK, because I love doing that.
Yes, I do too. It's easier to remember.
So complimentary, OK Contrastingor color matched 3C's, OK.
I like it and those do work, so this is it is a good frame for
(04:55):
how to think about straps. I always went with just
whatever. Whatever it came with.
Whatever the watch brand picked.Wait, why am I doing voices now?
You're. Doing that same old timey voice
that I. Whatever it came with is what it
should have. I I don't even know what that's
supposed to be. OK, so, so complimentary
(05:17):
contrasting and color matched. OK.
And I thought through for today to talk about my three favorite
straps right now, and I picked one of each of those types to
illustrate. Well, you made-up the types, so
yeah. Wait a second, this is a well
established like there's like a book about.
It the three CS of straps of watch straps.
(05:38):
Yesterday, So the three CS of watch strap pairing, OK, we're
going to start with color matched.
Well, no, but in your three CS, you started with complimentary.
Oh no, there is no order to them.
What actually they're the three codes.
Actually they all start with Co anyway.
OK, so I'm going to start with color match and I have been
(06:03):
wearing for months now my Grand Seiko Taisetsu, which has this
beautiful cloud like stormy Graydial on deluxe is Himalayan
white Gator strap. And we had this whole thing.
We did talk about it on the podcast once about there's no
Himalayan Gators. Like.
Oh, actually, there are. Gators and crocodiles and stuff.
(06:25):
Yeah. But this strap, even though it's
it's white and Gray and so it actually matches the dial very,
very well because it it kind of just flows into the titanium and
the Gray dial. And so you get this almost
monotone look. And I really like that, that
that has been my favorite strap pairing for that watch.
(06:49):
I haven't taken it off. Don't, I mean I would say
typically. So then probably for me color
matched would be the strap that mostly just comes on the watch
many times. So that's what I'm most used.
To for myself blue dial, then itcomes with a blue.
Strap, yeah, or a black dial, black strap, you know, So for me
(07:11):
that. Strap we could keep going.
Yeah, OK. Anyway, but for me, I think
that's what I was most used to, yes, which is why I think it's
cool to kind of move to the other ones.
Yes, your other C's so. Next, I'll talk about
complimentary and you have experience with this because
borrowed my watch, yes, that I had my complimentary strip.
(07:32):
And this is from Deluxe's new very recent drop, like last
month on the Otsuka Low tech number six, which just won its
GPHG Challenge Prize award. Everyone heard about my
screaming. Yes, yes, the screaming.
Rob Nudd called it on on the Real Time Show podcast, he said.
I yelped. And I think that was really, I
think if you listen real. Close, you hear the Yelp.
(07:55):
So you are wearing my Otsuka look low tech #6 in the room
when the GPHG was announced and it was on Deluxe's olive green,
they just released a sailcloth like strap.
It's not made of sailcloth, it'sactually made of FKM rubber.
And so they've taken the best properties of rubber and the
(08:18):
look of sailcloth and put them together for a really
comfortable strap That looks very cool.
It was very comfortable and the whole time people complimented
the watch. And then they'd be like, I love
that strap, like the color and the look.
Of it and everyone was looking at your wrist because you were
wearing. And winning watch and I was
screeching. And they loved the strap.
Yeah, so it worked out very well.
(08:39):
So that olive green with this very industrial look, brushed
metal, like very complementary, even though, you know, I guess
silver and olive green could be complementary colors.
And the last one contrasting, I put there also new black Pilot
CTS strap from the new collection on my Tudor Black Bay
(09:02):
Chrono ink. And the ink dial has, because
it's a little panda. It's a pink panda, I thought.
We called it Piggy. Big Snout and with a black
strap, it completely changes that watch.
When you take it off of the jubilee or the five link Tudor
bracelet and you put it on that black strap, that contrast that
(09:25):
it creates between the dial and the strap, it makes the dial pop
so much more interesting. The three CS.
Yeah. But I was thinking actually
sometimes some of them could be combined because.
Oh, is that the 4th C combined? Combined, yes.
Totally planned that. Combined well because so for me,
(09:50):
I think the watch the two my twofavorite and ones that you
actually watched me change and kind of like.
You know, actually changed tracks.
Yes, well, that's also one of the nice things about Quick,
quick release spring bars. It's so much it makes it easier
for you. Yeah, but for me, so combined
(10:11):
would be my show. Hard skeleton is on the Lagoon
blue crocodile strap. The reason I liked it is because
it matches the blued hands and the cabochon perfectly.
So that would be, you know, you could put contrasting or color
matched. I would.
Which one would you think is that?
To me, that's contrast. Contrast because.
The majority color of the watch is gold.
(10:34):
Wait, but that's why, yeah, it'salso complementary.
It's like a literal complementary color, yellow and
blue, like the golden blue, so. True, contrasting and
complementary. The 4th C come by.
Any more CS? Are we going to go to 5?
No, I don't think so. And then I also so my Nomos
(10:55):
Tetra 27 karat. I've had this watch.
So this was the one that really kind of transformed my thinking
about straps because the the show part skeleton came on a
terrible like cheap strap. So when I put on this beautiful
strap, it it didn't transform itbecause I was always like, I
hate that other strap It's goingto be.
(11:17):
Amazing. It's not like it was already
good and it transformed it into something just different.
It's like it took it from you didn't like it at all.
No, I wasn't. Wearing it, this is.
Amazing. Yes, this is amazing, but with
my normal Tatra 27 carat, which you gave me for my 30th
birthday, so seven years ago, and I've worn it a lot over the
(11:39):
years. It's beautiful.
It has this really nice like brushing on the dial and I've
worn it a lot, but I never I mean, in the past few years I
haven't worn it that much. When you first got it for me, I
wore it a lot and then I obviously as I got into
collecting, it's like there's somany choices and there's only so
(11:59):
many times you can wear it, you know, so too many watches, watch
people problems, but pay paid for me from their leotelier
range. It has this beautiful like edge
painting and it kind of has this.
It's like a brown color with lighter contrasts on it.
(12:21):
Which also I didn't realize thatkeepers are the little loops.
Yeah, little keepers. Yeah, I know.
I never knew that was. The name, yeah.
I think it's really cute and so the keepers were also
contrasting and so this like brown, tan.
Honestly, I would not have paired this together for myself.
(12:42):
I wouldn't have picked it because when I saw even.
Well, you told me. I'm not sure about.
This I'm not sure about the pairing because it felt like it
might be too much for the this like simple watch, but honestly
it just sets off the dial in a new way.
It, it really compliments it so well.
(13:02):
And especially in the fall, I'vebeen wearing that watch so much
more. I mean more than I have in years
because and then I get a ridiculous amount of comments
when I post an image of it because people are like, that
just looks so cool. It looks super fall.
And that also made me realize I would like to change straps more
based on seasons because I do really care about that's the
(13:26):
fifth seasons, seasons I think Ibroke moo.
I I can't agree with that as theI no, I'm sorry.
We need to move on. I wish you could see Moo's face
(13:48):
right now because he's actually having like a robot shut down.
He like can't function over this.
Anyway, anyway, I agree with seasonal especially because in
the summer that's typically not where I want to wear leather
strap. I did wear the leather strap,
the Gator strap on my grand Seiko all summer, but not if I
(14:11):
ever thought I was going to get sweaty.
That's when I'd rather have rubber through the winter
though. Then I love leather straps and
spring and fall. I actually meant more like
colors and like textures. So, you know, suede in the, you
know, more like holiday seasons and and lighter leather colors
(14:31):
in the in the summer, but also we could do that sweaty thing.
That's the. Sweat the. 6C That's why you
you're talking about. Oh no, you're talking about
sweat, not me. This is this.
Is going horribly now. No, OK.
My book You've ruined the book that I wrote about the three
C's. So I would just like to say the
(14:53):
other day we were listening to the Warren and Wound podcast and
Zach Kazan talked about how moreand more he's been thinking.
And this is something you and I have talked about so much is
like using our like what we purchase to be with brands that
we love, with people that we love.
And for me, like watching Ken and pay build up deluxe over the
(15:19):
years, but also just, you know, recently they had their six year
anniversary. Yeah.
And they posted all of these photos of them like being so
young, going and looking at different Leathers.
It was only six years ago, but they looked like little babies
to me. Because some of it was even
before they started, yeah. And before they started the
company. To me, I love anything that's
(15:40):
founded in passion and I know that so many of us are looking
for that like passion of someonewanting to just make things
better and like, oh, I didn't find what I wanted, so I made
it. And that's why I that's why I
really am a huge deluxe fan. Yeah, so I already, you know,
like I said, I found them in 2020, just found them online,
you know, on a forum or something.
I don't remember how ordered thestraps, loved them.
(16:03):
But looking at the photos that they posted for their six year
anniversary and seeing that likefound that kind of like startup
journey, them crashing out on a literally piles of straps that
they were packing because of a Black Friday sale they did.
And it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah,I it's, yeah, that's, that's the
(16:24):
life. It's really awesome.
So they're having a a big sale for Black Friday.
It starts now, goes through December 3rd I would say.
I just wanted to say think aboutgifts.
Because. I've been.
Makes sense? You've been shopping.
Shopping and thinking about Christmas I you gave me for my
birthday a few years ago. The 8 watch deluxe case and it's
(16:49):
my absolute. That's my hands down favorite.
The brown Yeah, that's where youlight brown favorite watches.
I put my favorite watches. Yeah, my favorite watches are
always in that in that case. Watch Case, Yeah.
And then actually for my 10 yearanniversary at work, you like
the team wanted to get me something and you suggested.
(17:09):
Well, they came and said it should, maybe it could be watch
related, and I was like, I know exactly.
Oh yeah, they said watch and travel related and so.
And they got me the prism trio case.
It was in an older color way of grey green, but again, just a
really cool case For me, it's super important that the
(17:30):
pillows, the cushions fit my small yeah, straps and and
bracelets and they always because.
They're expanding and like they,they really come packed down
small, but they also my favoritething about that one and the
reason that I I I told them to buy.
Yeah. Oh, that.
One, I didn't pay for it, but the reason that I, I, I told
them they should get this one ofall the watch rolls that existed
(17:52):
out there is because you can remove each watch independent of
the others. Yeah, they're not all clipped
together, which happens a lot with watch rolls.
It was, it's actually kind of wild to think that 'cause that
was three years ago that my colleagues knew I was that into
watches. Yeah, look at me now.
I've got my own watch podcast. Only they knew what they were
supporting at the time. Oh wow.
(18:15):
And then Deluxe actually sent methe two watch holder, which is
in the same colorway, the brown and light brown.
And I love that that's the one. I'll I'm just whenever I'm
traveling, it's so easy to throwin my bag.
You don't travel with eight watches.
No, definitely not. Which is a good thing, yes.
Yes, not going to do it 3. Max one on the wrist, 2 in your
(18:38):
little little thing that I thinkthat's perfect.
So, OK, one last thing I wanted to say about the lugs.
Besides the fact that we just think they're great people, we
want to support them as people, I also do think like there's not
a lot of innovation going on in the watch or in the watch strap
space over the past, you know, century, like there, there has
(19:02):
been innovation. You know, now there's quick
release spring bars there like things have gotten better and
probably manufacturing processeshave gotten better and like
quality overall, like there, there there's just so much more
choice. There's more companies making
strap, there's all that, but when it comes to actually just
making things better, you don't see it that often.
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I don't know if Deluxe invented this, but I know that they've
recently made a change with how their strap clasp is and it's
got a new shape and the pin has a new shape and the way it is,
you got to look it up on the website the way it is.
Basically it's designed to make your strap last longer so it
(19:45):
doesn't tear up the hole and it also doesn't bend the strap so
much, which technically is bad for the business.
Because. If they make their straps last
longer, people don't need to buyas many straps.
But I do like what you know whenyou go to the AD and you're like
trying on a leather strap watch the the the leather strap always
(20:08):
looks wrecked because everyone has put it in a different hole
and it just kind of like it. It just wrecks them and this.
Like, because it's on that whiteGator strap of mine, it doesn't
do that at all. It doesn't bend the strap when
you put it on. And I, I think that's, that's
just really cool. Yeah.
So innovation, yeah, I think they're doing some cool stuff.
(20:31):
Yeah, and a note is that Deluxe sent us some of their products
for free, but they didn't pay usto say anything, ask us to say
anything, and they don't get to hear this before it goes out.
Actually, they don't even know this episode is happening.
Surprise. But have a great week, everyone.
Bye.
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