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Co-Design your own Strap Contest
Deadline for submission: November 22nd, 2024.
Time has come... As part of our 10-year anniversary celebration, we're excited to invite you to participate in our special contest: "Co-Design Your Own Watch Strap"! This is your chance to bring your creativity to life by designing a custom watch strap that reflects your personal style.
Here’s how it works:
1. Create a Moodboard:
Use images, colors, and textures that inspire your ideal watch strap. Whether it’s the rugged outdoors, sleek city style, or vintage classics, your moodboard will be the foundation for your design.
2. Choose Your Design Details:
Together with uploading your moodboard, provide us with specific details for your watch strap:
- Strap Type: Will it be a Single Pass strap, racing strap, vintage style, or something else?
- Color: Let us know your preferred color or color combination.
- Leather or Fabrics options: What leather or fabric will be used? Grained Leather, Exotic leather, Suede or perhaps a special fabric?
- Stitching: What kind of stitching will your strap have? Think about color contrast, thickness, and style.
- Edges & Heatline: How will the edges be finished? Will there be a heatline or any specific details you want to add for a polished look?
- Shapes: Include details on the overall shape and any specific design features.
- Customization: Will there be custom design on your strap?
3. Submit before the Deadline:
Send your moodboard together with the specific details of your design to patrick@bulangandsons.com latest by November 22nd, 2024! Preferably use PDF documents.
To give some inspiration and information let us give you some input on the various topics:
1. The Moodboard
To get an idea on what we expect:
Have a look at our own moodboards that inspired our iconic Ripstop Watch Strap.
2. The Design Details
Watch Strap Style
What kind of watch strap do you have in mind? See some examples below.
Simple Two Piece Strap
Single Pass Strap
Newman Strap
Racing Strap
Vintage Style Strap
One Piece Single Pass Strap
Leathers or Fabrics
Which leather type or Fabric do you choose? Let us show some examples below.
Grained Leather
Linen Style Leather
Lizard Leather
Pigskin Leather
Alligator Full Cut Leather
Suede Leather
Vintage Aged Leather
Smooth Calf Skin Leather
Camo Canvas Fabric
Ripstop Fabric
Tweed Fabric
Vintage Barbour Fabric
Strap Options - Stitching
When designing a watch strap there are various options to consider. Let us show some examples below with regard to stitching.
No Stitching
Normal Stitching (contrasting color)
Box Stitch (contrasting color)
Colored Vintage Stitching
Tone-Sur-Tone color stitching
Straight Stitch
Vintage Stitch
Strap Options - Keepers
When designing a watch strap there are various options to consider. Let us show some examples below with regard to keepers.
Keepers with heatline (same color)
Keepers with heatline (contrasting color)
Keepers (no heatline) in different leather
Strap Options - Edges
When designing a watch strap there are various options to consider. Let us show some examples below with regard to edges.
Tone-sur-Tone painting
Colourful edge painting
Creme contrast painting
Full Folded Edges
Strap Options - Heatlines on strap
When designing a watch strap there are various options to consider. Let us show some examples below with regard to heatlines. (The heatline is the engraving line next to the stitching)
No Heatline
With Heatline
Strap Options - Shape of Tip
When designing a watch strap there are various options to consider. Let us show some examples below with regard to the tip shape.
Aviator Shape
Classic Tip Pointed
Swiss Shape Tip
Strap Customization
When designing a watch strap there are various options to consider. Let us show some examples below with regard to customization options.
Japanese Art Design
Text Design Art
Single Element Art