Fluco Finest Blue NATO Style Leather Watch Strap

Located in Germany's Bavarian Forest, Fluco manufactures 100% in-house at its headquarters in the town of Furth im Wald. Owner Ulrich Fleischmann represents the third generation of his family to lead the company that his grandfather founded more than 70 years ago, producing handmade watch straps of the highest quality for men and women.

Fluco carefully vets every partner they collaborate with. They work only with tanneries that produce ecologically and ethically responsible leather, complying with the strictest regulations to ensure environmental safety and exercising verifiable control from the origin of the raw material to the end product. Fluco's buckles are made entirely in Germany, at a traditional company in Baden Württemberg that tasks itself with producing premium clasps for watch straps.

Fluco's soft, comfortable Finest NATO-style strap is handmade in Germany using leather from the Perlinger tannery. Perlinger, a neighbor of Fluco in Furth im Wald, has been owned by the same family for almost 150 years. Handcrafted calf leather of the finest quality has been Perlinger’s trademark over five generations. Centuries ago, the family's ancestors developed a secret process of allowing leather to shrink naturally, creating an unusual leather structure with a pronounced, but fine, grain. Today Perlinger's leather has gained worldwide fame for its use in luxury leather goods such as the Hermès Birkin handbag, but unfortunately, poor (embossed) imitations of Perlinger leather abound. Fluco is one of the few watch strap suppliers who still use authentic, naturally shrunken Perlinger leather.

This is a two-piece, NATO-style strap with three polished stainless steel keeper rings. The white contrast stitching is created with a fine quilting machine seam all around the strap; the bar tacks on the clasp are double stitched. The ring and buckle pockets are sewn into place and double-stitched at the edges. The lining leather is water repellent and hypoallergenic. A glass fiber reinforcement is layered inside the strap to prevent tearing and shrinking.

Material:

• Fine, naturally shrunken Perlinger calfskin leather
• Hypoallergenic, water repellent leather lining
• Fitted with a polished stainless steel German-made buckle and keeper rings

Sizing:

• Available in 18mm and 22mm
• Total length 11" (280mm) excluding buckle
• Each layer is 1.6mm thick

Includes:

• One free pair of strong, seamless double-flange stainless steel spring bars