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Not sold on the Italian-style myself yet

Great selection Laurent, including the only "permitted" use of a NATO on a Carrera (aka Skipper)!

I like the leather used in the rustic, Italian-style strap and I'm all for the case and dial doing most of the work, but I just can't quite get into the simple stitching - a bit too naïve for my taste. I think I'm pretty conservative when it comes to straps by and large actually.

I like the GF bracelets, the single grain more than the double grain although it always feels like it should be the other way round - the single grain with the more delicate manuals and the double grain for the later, chunkier automatics. And I'm partial to barrel Carreras on the bracelet, even ditching my conservatism for the rather more baroque gold-plated version:

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