What a fantastic find!! Well done.

Re the corfam, I've got a corfam strap on a Monaco and it wears very well. I find it's better to flatten the strap out when I take it off and keep it flat when no being worn instead of wrapped around a watch holder. If I were you though, I'd keep it as a spare as corfam straps aren't that easy to come by and it was such a bargain. I've done that with a couple of corfams and kept my vintage buckles safe and sound too, the reproduction buckles are very good as everyday wearers. It's up to you through my friend, but once again, well done on the bargain of the year.

David H

: Last weekend while having lunch downtown with the family, there was
: a little art fest/flee market type thing. Since I love old
: stuff, I checked out a couple of the tables with mostly just
: random junk. Much to my entertainment I found a box with about a
: dozen watches in it. Looking through the various Timex, Seiko
: and no name junk, I almost did a little dance to find an
: original Heuer buckle and corfam strap marked at $2. So I
: grabbed it along with the only Seiko of interest and gave the
: lady 10 bucks for them. My wife could hardly understand why I
: was so excited. Then the next table over there was another box
: of junk watches. Looking through it I found a 19mm tropic sport
: band on a beat up, Sicura dive watch and gave the guy 10 bucks
: for that. Not to bad for an afternoon with the family.

: Now for the question. How well does the corfam hold up? I’m
: thinking that the best course is to stash the strap away for
: safe keeping and put the buckle on a new leather strap to wear.
: I imagine that after a little bit of wear that the corfam will
: start to break up.

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