A Veritable Rogues Gallery

This handmade leather frame cinch is intended to hold polo mallets to your bike, but as they show in the pictures, anything thin enough can be held to the frame. Including a sixpack of beer.

We don’t get to conceal carry in the Netherlands (or carry at all), so let’s keep our other vices close to hand. Cigarettes and alcohol flask holster!

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Shell Cordovan is an exclusive type of leather made from the hindquarters of horses that have died a natural death. Supply is irregular and it takes 6 months to tan, but demand is high but it is both more supple and resistant than regular leather. That has a predictable result on market value…

Ofcourse Corvus sells NATO style straps made out of this cordovan leather, at $195 a pop.

This military styled green wool Filson jacket has that heritage texture combined with the simple, functional styling of Filson. I like!

For the Nudie jeans fan: a macbook sleeve made out of Nudie denim with their signature wave stitched on the flap.

Though not a classic doctor’s bag (like the ones in the movies with the reinforced frames) this Barbour still has enough class to hold its own.

Singer takes fairly modern ’90s Porsche 911s, upgrades their bits and pieces and kits them out with a carbon fiber body styled after the classic ’70s models. Love this look!

More knife porn, this time from Stelton’s ‘Pure Black’ line.

Brookish is an Etsy shop that sell Pride & Prejudice quote themed goods, like this sweet Mr. Darcy proposal mug:

“You must allow me to tell you … how ardently I admire and love you”

Custom strapmaker Ted Su makes luxurious leather travel pouches for your Panerai or similar sized divewatches, with room for a screwdriver and an extra strap.

I mentioned the watch straps made from leather recovered from the sunken Metta Catharina wreck, now how about braces? These Albert Thurstons use leather from the Metta combined with woven silk showing the image of a brigantine.

More love for fashion watches? Yes… this older Burberry piece takes the looks of a type A dial b-uhr watch (the classic design used by the Luftwaffe in WW2) and combines it with a modern trendy wraparound leather strap. I have to find out if I can get a strap like that somewhere else, a b-uhr watch is sourced easily enough…

I take back my previous post about what to get the Panerai fan who already has everything. Get him this instead: a bobblehead figure of a Panerai-wearing WW2 Italian combat diver.

Missed this in the general SIHH hype, but this might just be my favourite of the entire Panerai collection. The new 372 in the Historic collection is really Panerai’s homage to their classic 6152 divewatch that the Italian frogmen used just after the second world war. Same style base sandwich dial, gold hands, domed plexiglass crystal and ‘fiddy’ style case. If only it didn’t come in that humongous 47mm…