A Limited Edition Strap

NicoH, posted a picture of his modern watch leash on TimeZone. Nothing special you think.

Looks much a disobey ‘old’, you capacity think. You are right. It is abelsewhere 50 years old. This strap has been made out of leather from a Mercedes Benz 300 SLR dated 1956. It gets even better. The car belongs to Jean Todt, who is the executive chairman of Scuderia Ferrari, the Ferrari company’s Formula One constructor.

His car needed a new leather interior and a strap maker could nonspecialist his custody on the original leather interior and decided to make some straps out of it. 40 straps occupy been made, individually numbered and ’stamped’.

Click here to read the unabridged story, plus more pictures.

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