Hello all,
Thought I would kill 2 birds here, give a shout-out to Mario (Orloff) who I buy all my straps from, and show you guys my PAMs.
There are a lot of "what strap should I get" threads, so if you don't know about Mario, (http://orloff-straps.blogspot.com/) you should check him out. He does great work, very high quality and quite reasonably priced. Several long-time members use him, but he doesn't have a dealer section here (but does on another rep forum, as well as P*neristi.) A great strap really brings these up a few notches and creates the gen look and feel, which is what you want after all...no point wearing pickled cat skin on your wrist and feeling bad about yourself.
Left to right: 232, 380, 292, 111
Davidsen 232: brown gator w/ creme stitch, 27/22. I love the brown dial and gold hands, it's a beautiful watch despite any discrepancies in the case, and I think is unfortunately overlooked. Has a great vintage look and the quality is there.
H Fac 380: black gator w/ white stitch, 27/22. When this came out 2 or so years back, people nit-picked the font, which is correct but not for this watch. Nobody can tell. It is terribly underrated and has passed for gen w/ 2 friends that have gen PAMs.
Noob 292 Pig: Black nubuck gator, 27/22. The watch everyone is kicking themselves for not buying when they could. Matte strap has a greyish tone which goes perfect with the watch.
Noob 111: V3, Black gator, black stitch, 24/22. My first rep, and still going strong. Just bought a bunch of Dialux polishes and went over it with my drill.
What's this? IWC Portuguese ZF: Dark Brown Gator, brown stitch, red backing. Brings the watch to gen level feel.
There you have it. If you have any doubts about ordering from Mario...don't. Might be time to sell my Watchboys blue gator on my Noob Laureus Ingenieur and see if he has any blue gator laying around.
Thought I would kill 2 birds here, give a shout-out to Mario (Orloff) who I buy all my straps from, and show you guys my PAMs.
There are a lot of "what strap should I get" threads, so if you don't know about Mario, (http://orloff-straps.blogspot.com/) you should check him out. He does great work, very high quality and quite reasonably priced. Several long-time members use him, but he doesn't have a dealer section here (but does on another rep forum, as well as P*neristi.) A great strap really brings these up a few notches and creates the gen look and feel, which is what you want after all...no point wearing pickled cat skin on your wrist and feeling bad about yourself.
Left to right: 232, 380, 292, 111
Davidsen 232: brown gator w/ creme stitch, 27/22. I love the brown dial and gold hands, it's a beautiful watch despite any discrepancies in the case, and I think is unfortunately overlooked. Has a great vintage look and the quality is there.
H Fac 380: black gator w/ white stitch, 27/22. When this came out 2 or so years back, people nit-picked the font, which is correct but not for this watch. Nobody can tell. It is terribly underrated and has passed for gen w/ 2 friends that have gen PAMs.
Noob 292 Pig: Black nubuck gator, 27/22. The watch everyone is kicking themselves for not buying when they could. Matte strap has a greyish tone which goes perfect with the watch.
Noob 111: V3, Black gator, black stitch, 24/22. My first rep, and still going strong. Just bought a bunch of Dialux polishes and went over it with my drill.
What's this? IWC Portuguese ZF: Dark Brown Gator, brown stitch, red backing. Brings the watch to gen level feel.
There you have it. If you have any doubts about ordering from Mario...don't. Might be time to sell my Watchboys blue gator on my Noob Laureus Ingenieur and see if he has any blue gator laying around.
I have it for sale if you want a spare strap for the 5007 of yours. Black alligator would go very nice 
