RSM Hardware

Distressed hardware

Did you realise your favourite pair of jeans has amazing rivets and buttons? We adopt the interesting manufacturing knowledge across all disciplines, whenever possible to make the most unique watch bands. The distressed end caps are placed on the Camo and Vintage Military straps to accentuate the vintage vibes. We may like our watches to be pristine but our straps can afford to be rough and tough!

Shoe buckle

Stress on the strap is where it overlaps. This shoe buckle geometry allows the most natural form of strap overlap. 

While they look slim and delicate, these buckles are made of 316L Stainless Steel. Pushing the limits of lightness without compromising quality.

Ladder buckle

A very important and overlooked aspect is safety when it comes to buckles.

There are occasions where a child you are carrying can suffer long scratches from your buckles if they are not rounded off at its corners when you put them down from your arms. Or, you could even cut yourself or anyone close.

These buckles have all corners rounded off not only for aesthetic reasons. Do you know one of the key reasons a strap frays quickly is due to the pin tips being too sharp and frays the materials around the holes when you wear it. Once rounded, it reduces the fraying activities. 

Spring loaded deployant clasp

A butterfly spring loaded, deployant clasp cool and fun to put on or take it off.

The great part is the length of your straps made with a tang buckle will fit this butterfly clasp. Unlike a single fold clasp that needs both sides of your straps to be of almost equal length to fit.

The magic about this clasp is not so much the spring loaded abilities but the geometry of the piece of steel in contact with your wrist. It is worked over and rounded off at every possible angle so you almost don’t feel like you are wearing a clasp.

Holeless clamp buckle

Safety harnesses and buckles have been studied very thoroughly for years. When we learnt that the natural silk yarn cannot melt in heat unlike synthetic yarns, we had to come up with a unique solution.

A buckle that uses a teeth clamp similar to safety equipment had to be customised. 

There are multiple benefits to this design. It secures the watch to your wrist and allows endless micro adjustments to fit your wrist.

Unique RSM Textures

We believe the role of the strap is a complementary product to the watch. It should have an interesting but not a loud personality to compete with the watch’s attention.We believe the role of the strap is a complementary product to the watch. It should have an interesting but not a loud personality to compete with the watch’s attention.

Whether it is nylon, silk, canvas, polyester or leathers, we always strive for a unique texture for your individual expression with your timepiece.

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Restrained, tough and elegant.

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Soft and sporty

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Individually coloured specks that form the graphic

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Bringing out the best of your time pieces.

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Stitches

If textures are the soul to a watch band, the stitches give it structure. 

The longevity of the straps depends largely on its stitches. The lack of it sometimes is a balance between aesthetics and durability. Certain styles and materials of straps are not expected to be worn by the special forces. So, building it for purpose is critical. 

While the purpose of stitches are to hold the materials together, they can be very decorative should we choose to expose or highlight them as accents. It would be equally as tricky if we want to hide the stitches to not overcomplicate a certain minimal look.

Tapering the leather strap. What most would observe is the tapering width of the leather strap to give it an elegant form from the wider lugs to the narrower buckle or tail end. Did you realise that great leather strap in fact tapers in its thickness from the lug ends to the buckle or tail ends? This gives it great dexterity at the part where it bends around your wrist the most. At the lug end where it needs to match the watch head, it would be best to have it slightly thicker. Now that you know all the critical points to a good leather strap. Head down to see our detailed shots of our leather straps.

Tapering widths and thickness

Butt stitch

Butt stitches on the woven strap have similar structure to the stitches on our skin wounds except at a higher density. It gives strengths to the joint and removes discomfort from bulges from overlapping fabric.

Hidden stitches

When dealing with a highly textured leather like the lizard skin, we made a conscious decision to reduce the stitches to areas with the highest stress. At the lugs, we employed only 2 spot stitches in the 12 to 6 o’clock direction to best hide it. 

Accent stitches are obvious and need to be extremely accurate and tight to exude the qualities of our straps. We believe in flushing the stitches with the surface of the straps. This gives the neatest visual appearance compared to protruded stitches. The thread needs a clear texture even though they are tiny. It adds to the overall finishing of the leather strap in particular.