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Pastorbottle
·As has been mentioned a lot of yellow gold watches of the 50s, 60s and 70s have that old mani image that’s hard to shake.
And various shade of brown and black don’t do much to stop that, as those were what grandad would’ve worn back in the day.
Now it would largely depend on the watch in question. How about a bit of colour to freshen up the look, I’m not talking about anything bright and garish, a subtle dark blue, green or maroon could the trick.
As an experiment, I’ve had a rummage though the various watch straps at hand and mated them with a typical old bloke’s watch
Not all we’re the correct size so I plonked the larger ones over to top to give an idea of the possibilities.
Here’s an old Seiko in full old geezer mode sporting a black strap:
Now the same in dark blue:
Maroon:
Green:
Grey:
Steel blue:
another green with a more grained pattern:
The lighting isn’t the best, the greens do look much much better than the pix indicate. The later green one in particular, but I think the maroon is the one that best suits this particular watch.
I would go for something more heavily grained, to take it further form old man town, still anything is better that those stretchy expanding bracelets that they all wore back in the day, they really did say one foot in the grave as a statement
And various shade of brown and black don’t do much to stop that, as those were what grandad would’ve worn back in the day.
Now it would largely depend on the watch in question. How about a bit of colour to freshen up the look, I’m not talking about anything bright and garish, a subtle dark blue, green or maroon could the trick.
As an experiment, I’ve had a rummage though the various watch straps at hand and mated them with a typical old bloke’s watch
Not all we’re the correct size so I plonked the larger ones over to top to give an idea of the possibilities.
Here’s an old Seiko in full old geezer mode sporting a black strap:
Now the same in dark blue:
Maroon:
Green:
Grey:
Steel blue:
another green with a more grained pattern:
The lighting isn’t the best, the greens do look much much better than the pix indicate. The later green one in particular, but I think the maroon is the one that best suits this particular watch.
I would go for something more heavily grained, to take it further form old man town, still anything is better that those stretchy expanding bracelets that they all wore back in the day, they really did say one foot in the grave as a statement
