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: I host a few Omega Catalogues/brochures/owners
: manuals etc etc.
: One of them contains a picture of a
: flightmaster on a synthetic strap.
Steve, thanks, that's great. I'll be trying to find a modern equivalent strap, if anybody sees one for sale let me know!
How nice to see the variety of case shapes on that page, shame that almost all SMP and Speedmaster variants now have just the one type of case.
The strap is described as "sea-water proof", it might be a later German-market specific thing, or it might be the "Corfam" synthetic strap I've read about. 1977 might be too late for Corfam. I found this about Corfam on http://www.todayinsci.com/:
" In 1964, E.I. duPont de Nemours Co. introduced Corfam. This hydrocarbon-based, synthetic substitute for leather was flexible, with tiny pores, for uses such as shoes, handbags, belts and suitcases. Shoes put on sale with Corfam uppers were supposed to give consumers the look, feel and durability of leather. DuPont predicted that by 1984, 25% of America's shoes would be made of Corfam. But synthetic leather was snubbed by customers in droves. It was one of the best-prepared products in terms of market and technology development and yet it failed. Time on the market: seven years. Production ceased in 1971. Corfam was described by Leonard Sloane in the New York Times as, "Du Pont's $100-Million Edsel," (11 Apr 1971)."
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