Dear All:
I have a new Junghans Meister Pilot - Vintage Lume Variant, Black dial with vanilla/yellowish lume for hour markers and hands.
My wrist is very small at 6" to 6 1/4", so I'll need a new strap, most likely custom.
I also don't like the black and brown combination colored strap that this vintage lume model comes with (it's also too long a strap for me).
As I like texture on these types of "pilot styled" straps, I thought that possibly Buffalo or Shark might be options to consider.
What I cannot decide is whether this watch would look better with a black strap, a grey strap, or a brown strap?
Clearly, a brown strap would bring out the vintage vanilla/yellowish lume (fauxtina ;).
Yet, grey or black might make the watch stand out more crisply, especially with white thread stitching or ecru/off white stitching.
May I ask the good folks here for your experienced eye and thoughts, please? Thank you in advance.
The issue is whether a black or grey strap might tilt the overall hue of the entire watch+strap to overly cool, so that the idea of "vintage lume" (albeit fauxtina) is lost?
I personally don't wear a lot of browns and khakis and beiges, so that's one strike against the brown. Yet, since I have very few brown strapped watches, this might be one good opportunity to get a brown strap to go with the vintage colored lume.
I'm attaching picture of the watch itself, plus black, grey, brown in both shark and buffalo.
Order of pictures:
- pictures of the Junghans Meister Pilot with vintage lume.
- Black Shark
- Grey Shark
- Brown Shark
- Black Buffalo
- Grey Buffalo
- Brown Buffalo
- Glossy Beaver Tail (only glossy available in Beaver Tail, unfortunately)
Thank you. Pardon me in advance for such a lengthy post.
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Black Shark
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Grey Shark
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Brown Shark
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Black Buffalo
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Grey Buffalo
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Brown Buffalo
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Glossy Beaver Tail (unfortunately, only available in glossy)
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