When the wrist is girded with creativity and elegance: Astrua straps

 

The strap is the continuation of the watch by other means. It seems to us that this premise - a paraphrase of Von Clausewitz's famous definition of the relationship between diplomacy and the arts of war - helps us to clearly define the fundamental role of the strap in completing the personality of any timepiece.If it is true that Swiss watchmaking savoire faire is unique in the world, it is equally certain that the Italian craftsmanship and stylistic ability fears no competitors, and at Astrua we try to advise our customers so that this combination can make the object they wear on their wrist special : a perfect fusion between their style and that of the manufacturers, through a path developed together with us, drawing on our decades of expertise. The search for elegance - which is an ongoing process and not a fixed goal - never stops, and our staff will accompany you in the creation of the right watch band , made by Astrua with the best materials, so that it fits your wrist as well as your personality. The criterion that guides us is the balance between respecting the watch and satisfying the personal flair of its owner. There are implicit codes among which to move with imagination and style, such as the thickness of the leather (or rubber), which should be appropriate to the volume of the case.Stitching, single or double - perhaps contrasting - are perfect for emphasising the more or less sporty nature of the timepiece; their absence is sometimes advisable to accompany the light sinuosity of women's models with limited dimensions and rarefied grace . And then, of course, there are the materials , with their different vocations: the elegant rectangular scales of an alligator ; the rough grit of the skin of a shark or the astonishing micro regularity of that of a breed .

And if the rubber strap immediately evokes the seabed, the stitched calfskin brings back suggestions of country and adventurous imagery.

But these parameters immediately fade into the background, the more the desire for distinction increases, the more the pleasure of making one's own watch a unique piece, perhaps overturning its initial identity, thanks precisely to the strap: and it is in this creative moment that a great complicity with the customer is born, to accompany him wisely among the expressive possibilities presented to him.

Because each chromatic shade has a different appeal, and the colour can play in assonance or contrast with that of the dial (or of an inscription on it or of the spheres), should one wish to emphasise its classicism or its grit, and the same leathers lead us towards almost unlimited combinations , so much so that some customers commission different straps for the same timepiece, to make it suitable for different occasions and environments.

We mentioned at the beginning how the strap reinforces the personality of the watch; but let's not forget that what ultimately leaks out from this marvellous combination is the personal flair of the owner, the desire to have fun with taste, exalting the satisfaction of making the object that encircles our wrist even more satisfying, of making it - in a word -simply and exclusively 'ours'.