I love the results of your efforts David. Definately the right look for certain watches as far as i'm concerned, my own preference is to marry it to an extra patina'd early 2446 Autavia.

I have had the 1st generation Autavia on all this weekend sporting one of your now famous re-born boot straps and its super comfortable.
As a side note it would seem that i have finally turned up a set of dauphine hands for my watch (fingers crossed) ... but more on that in a future forum posting.
Cheers - Darren
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-: In any event, my Dad's boots leather is all used up, and LLBean
: will not give away old leather, some liability they say..foot
: fungus anyone? So I went on our favorite auction house and
: bought a couple of pair of old boots, took them apart,
: washed/disinfected the leather, and back to the hobby..
: hope you all like..
: Cheers,
: David