Your iPhone already wears leather. Your watch shouldn't be the odd one out.

Cremona is a hand-stitched strap cut from full-grain top-layer cowhide with a vintage pull-up finish — the kind of leather that lightens where it bends and darkens where you touch it. The contrast saddle stitching is done by hand, and the small cross-stitch at the keeper is the giveaway: this was assembled by a person, not pressed out of a mould.

It ships with stainless steel connectors that click straight into your Apple Watch — no tools, no adapters to buy — and a brushed buckle you can have in silver or black.

Why you'll love it

• Full-grain top-layer cowhide — the strongest, most honest layer of the hide
• Hand-stitched — contrast saddle stitching, finished by hand rather than glued
• Pull-up finish — develops a patina and gets better looking as it ages
• Tool-free fit — stainless connectors slide straight into the watch case
• Your choice of buckle — brushed silver or matte black
• Fits the whole family — Series 4 through the latest, SE, and Ultra / Ultra 2

Product specifications

• Material: full-grain top-layer cowhide, vintage pull-up finish
• Colour: antique brown
• Width: 24mm · Thickness: 4mm
• Length: 125mm + 75mm
• Fits: 40 / 41mm · 42mm (Series 10) · 44 / 45 / 46mm · 49mm Ultra

About real leather

Pull-up leather is meant to move. Bend it and the colour lifts; wear it and it settles back darker. Those marks are the point.

Care

Wipe with a dry cloth. Take it off before swimming or the shower — real leather and long soaks don't get along.