i spend crazy amounts time looking & researching bracelets/straps/bands....

Deafboy

I received the strap today, so it took 21 days - not bad at all.

My impressions:
1) it looks exactly like the picture in the eBay listing.
2) The quality is very good for the price paid. It fits perfectly between the lugs of the Bostok watch. I’m quite certain it is made of leather after inspecting the material with a loupe.
3) It’s thicker than what I’m used to, and may be a bit too much for this vintage Bostok. Should look fine with a tool watch though.
4) Overall very good value. $4.76

Deafboy

I received the strap today, so it took 21 days - not bad at all.

My impressions:
1) it looks exactly like the picture in the eBay listing.
2) The quality is very good for the price paid. It fits perfectly between the lugs of the Bostok watch. I’m quite certain it is made of leather after inspecting the material with a loupe.
3) It’s thicker than what I’m used to, and may be a bit too much for this vintage Bostok. Should look fine with a tool watch though.
4) Overall very good value. $4.76

JwRosenthal

I have a couple high end custom straps made by a well respected and revered strap maker that uses English and Italian leathers that smell so badly I can’t wear them. I’ve tried airing them out, leather cream, baking soda in a closed container- still bad. After months of airing them out I thought they were better but once they heat up on the skin I can smell them when I bring my arm near my face and my wrist stinks for 24 hours after wearing them.
Guess the price doesn’t matter sometimes.

Walrus

Now that is impressive. I want to get two good leather straps for my Connie and speedy. The Connie just something nice but the speedy I’d like to get the omega strap and deployment. A speedy I tried on at an AD had one and although I like steel it just looked so good on that omega leather the salesman almost talked me into putting me credit on the case and get the 5,400 watch. I just couldn’t do it though I had brought my wife to a work conference in Boston and I know she would ask me what I did and I told her I spent a couple mortgage payments on a watch it would have been a torturous 3 hour ride home.

marco

Thanks for the input. I did try Renovateur Saphir, it didn't seem to do much , but it does have a great smell ! Cologne for watches !

Deafboy

I received the strap today, so it took 21 days - not bad at all.

My impressions:
1) it looks exactly like the picture in the eBay listing.
2) The quality is very good for the price paid. It fits perfectly between the lugs of the Bostok watch. I’m quite certain it is made of leather after inspecting the material with a loupe.
3) It’s thicker than what I’m used to, and may be a bit too much for this vintage Bostok. Should look fine with a tool watch though.
4) Overall very good value. $4.76

pIoNeErOfThEnILe

35 days later and still nothing for me. they didn't even mark it as shipped, only prepared.

ty china. they'll rip you off for a nickel if you let them

Deafboy

Curious to know your impression of your straps.

larryganz

Well, as I said, they don't stink i.e. smell bad - they smell like regular leather. They are supposed to be distressed leather, but they don't have the cracked aged look to them, they just look like a variegated color on new leather. Construction seems fine, not too thin.

They all seem to have a striated pattern to them, unlike the auction where only some of the colors were like that. However, on one of them the strap side with the buckle is more of a mottled leather pattern, while the strap side with the holes is a striated pattern. See pic.

I got light coffee, dark coffee, brown, green, and yellow. I think the 1st pic below is yellow, and the second below is green. The green isn't really green green, but brown with a hint of green tint. The 3rd I think is dark coffee, then brown, then the last I think is the light coffee.