Custom open-ended watch straps for watches with fixed spring bars and wire lugs — where a standard strap can't thread through. Each end wraps around the bar and locks with a small flat screw: no gluing, no bent prongs, and you can swap straps whenever you like. Choose any lug width from 8mm to 32mm, any length for wrists 5" to 12", your leather, buckle and stitching. Cut, stitched and finished by hand in 2–3 weeks, then shipped worldwide. Which watches need an open-ended strap? Modern fixed-bar tool watches — Tudor Pelagos FXD and FXD GMT, CWC G10 and CWC divers, Bertucci field watches, Smiths PRS-40, Vario trench models. Military watches — WWII "Dirty Dozen" pieces and later military issues built with solid bars. Vintage and trench watches — early wristwatches with fixed wire lugs: pilot's watches, trench watches and cocktail watches, often in odd widths like 14mm and 17mm. Pocket-watch conversions — heirloom pocket watches converted to wristwatches with soldered wire lugs. A leather alternative to NATO straps Most fixed-bar watches ship on a pass-through fabric strap, which stacks under the case and sits high on the wrist. An open-ended leather strap works like a regular two-piece strap: it lays flatter, keeps the watch centred, and dresses the same watch up for a shirt cuff. Not sure your watch has fixed bars? See the full guide: unusual watch straps — open-ended, notched and curved-end, explained with real customer examples.
